For the next few weeks, I’m working on re-authoring and re-building the Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization, section by section. You can read more about this project here.
Search engines, as we’ve shown above, are limited in how they crawl the web and interpret content to retrieve and display in the results. In this section of the guide, we’ll focus on the specific technical aspects of building (or modifying) web pages so they’re optimally structured for search engines and human visitors. This is an excellent part of the guide to share with your programmers, information architects, and designers, so that all parties involved in the site’s construction can plan and develop a search-engine friendly site. Read the rest of this entry »
Tips on Page TitlesGoogle shows the first 65 characters in the search results. Make sure your important keywords occur early in the page title for scan-ability.
Mambo and Joomla are probably newest and most exciting open source available today. However as with every open source their core lacks some real SEO work which should have been present.
The default search engine friendly URLs feature is optional in both CMS and has specific pre-conditions. It needs to have the site be hosted on apache only server with mod_rewrite enabled, .htaccess override enabled.