Web Style Press, Best Practices from all the Web, Build Better Websites » SEO http://www.webstylepress.com Web VS Style Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:35:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 No Follow Your Own Blog Pages for Better PR http://www.webstylepress.com/no-follow-your-own-blog-pages-for-better-pr/ http://www.webstylepress.com/no-follow-your-own-blog-pages-for-better-pr/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:56:48 +0000 Hiroshi http://www.webstylepress.com/?p=757 No Follow Your Own Blog Pages for Better PR is a post from: Web Style Press, Best Practices from all the Web, Build Better Websites

]]> Nofollow is an attribute used in HTML to tell the search engine to follow the links or not, to give credit to links or not. It stops crawler if you have used this attribute at a link and crawler won’t escape from that link and it won’t give page rank to that link you have nofollowed. its used like the following.

<a href="#" rel="nofollow">link</a>

If you have used external links in the site then it is wise to target blank to them and nofollow them. If you don’t use nofollow then it means that you are giving credit to the external site or link and you will increase the external link’s PR and decrease yours. What I am saying here is to nofollow some of your own pages. Yes, some pages in your blog, website do not need the Page Rank or credit or link juice or PR juice or whatever it is.

How about contact page, privacy policy page, faqs page, possibly about page and pages like these? Do you need that these pages need PR. Your website index page need Page Rank and important articles in your website or blog need PR. So open your header or footer file and add rel nofollow attribute in these links which go to these pages and chances are your website PR will be better.

What do you think?

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]]> Suppose You want to Disallow two directories at your website i.e. some-directory and another-directory located at:

http://www.yourwebsite.com/some-directory
http://www.yourwebsite.com/another-directory

to be crawled by search engines and Allow all other directories and page of whole website to be indexed and crawled then here is how to do it in a right way.

Wrong Way

This is wrong way of creating a robots.txt file for your server for above requirement.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /some-directory/
Disallow: /another-directory/

In above example: You disallowed two directories but you did not allow anything other than that at all.

Correct Way
User-agent: *
Disallow: /some-directory/
Disallow: /another-directory/
Allow: /

In above example you just disallowed desired two directories and allowed all other website directories and pages.

This confusion about the code is very common. We generally read for robots.txt file and get the code and add * and mention what to disallow and upload the file.

To allow all the website for all search engines and all their crawlers (A search engine may own more than one crawler or bot for different tasks) here is the code:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Google Webmaster Tools are very helpful in doing right thing what your website deserves. From there you can generate robots.txt file by choosing some options. I would recommend Google Webmaster Tools to every webmaster.

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This online free sitemap Generator allows you generate XML Sitemaps, Yahoo and Google Sitemaps, check your site for errors and much more! You just enter website, choose options and hit start button. After it is done you can export your website data in many formats as:

  • URL list in txt file
  • CSV File
  • XML File
  • Sitemap XML File
  • HTML SiteMap
  • HTML Report

Screenshots

Click at images to enlarge.

Full Website Free XML Sitemap Generator Website

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]]> It has been many years I have been in the field of Web Development. When I sign full projects, then I do design, development and SEO myself. From my experience I can offer you some of the best advices for SEO. How to create a search engine friendly website? How to attract search engine crawlers? How to write for Search Engine? How to promote your website? You have to write content already, right? Why not write it in a way so that Search Engines may index your webpages and content? Let me offer you some SEO tips to create a Search Engine friendly website and further more I will give you links of Search Engines / Websites / Links Directories to submit your website to all major search engines.

Best Practices for SEO

Build a website that will be indexed by Search Engines.

  • Create Quality Content (Content is king)
  • Use alt and title tags with Images and text links
  • Add URL in search engines (Just top url, once. Not every page)
  • Use correct spellings in content
  • Provide a detailed sitemap
  • Links naming must be Proper
  • Use Robots Files
  • Use Detailed Meta Tags
  • Meta tags must be above to all things and content
  • Be to the point in title of page, Do not use many words or keywords in title otherwise search engines will blacklist your website
  • Do not use softwares for website submission to search engines
  • Build original links exchange program with relevant partners
  • Do not spam
  • Do not resubmit website to search engines
  • Include original articles related to your website content
  • Follow Google SEO and webmaster guidelines along with Google webmaster tools and services
  • Create a blog along with your website
  • Use friendly URLs with mod rewrite
  • Be patient, be tolerant
What is SEO Copywriting

SEO Copywriting or Search Engine writing is re-writing the text on the web page in such a manner that it must contain sufficient content closely related to user keyword search.

Website Promotion Guidelines
  • Use Adsense by Google
  • Sign Guest Books at other related websites
  • Add Pools at your website
  • Add Free Content to your website
  • Add Free Offers to your website
  • Create forms in your website that respond to user feedback giving them message that their mail or inquiry has been sent successfully and what next?
  • Add Articles, tutorials, tips and tricks at website
  • Use dynamic content that change
  • Submit Top URL or your website in search engines
  • Build forum community and blog along with your website
Search Engine and Websites Submission Links

Submit your website/blog/forum in the following searchengines / directories.

http://www.exactseek.com/add.html
http://www.addme.com/
http://www.ineedhits.com/free-tools/submit-free.aspx
http://www.beamed.com/search/AddURL.html
http://www.shoula.com/submit.php
http://www.searchengine.com/List_your_Site/Basic_Submit/addURL.asp?URL=http://www.alfahenterprises.com/&eMail=leopardsag@hotmail.com
http://www.igwanna.com/submit.php
http://www.trafficzap.com/searchsubmit.php
http://www.websquash.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl
http://freeemail123.net/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.exactseek.com/cgi-bin/a-submit.cgi
http://www.towersearch.com/addurl.php
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
http://www.infotiger.com/addurl.html?url=http://www.alfahenterprises.com/&email=leopardsag@hotmail.com
http://www.cipinet.com/cgi-bin/submit.pl
http://search-o-rama.com/AddURL.asp
http://www.burf.com/submit.php
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html
http://www.alexa.com/help/webmasters
http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
http://www.hypergurl.com/submit.html
http://www.landoflinks.com/cgi-bin/links/add2.cgi
http://www.geniusfind.com/submit.htm
http://www.clickey.com/
http://www.canlinks.net/addalink/index.html
http://submit2.jayde.com/
http://infiniteinfo.net/suggest-listing.php?id=0
http://www.asiancraftsshop.com/atzdirectory/submit.php
http://www.directorycomet.com/submit.php
http://www.directoryseek.org/suggest-listing.php?id=0
http://www.inteligentd.com/sug_url.php?cat_id=185
http://www.bestdirectory4you.com/submit.php
http://www.allbusinessdirectory.biz/link_submit.php
http://www.addgoodsites.com/submit.php
http://www.cachedirectory.com/add-url-free.html
http://www.directory-link.info/submit.php
http://links.scrabblestop.com/submit.php
http://www.playground3.com/submit.php
http://www.arakne-links.com/submit.php
http://www2.topsearchnet.com/newurl/
http://www.businessseek.biz/link_submit.php
http://linkcentre.com/
http://www.wikidweb.com/wiki/Wiki_Directory
http://www.arakne-links.com/submit.php
http://www.info-listings.com/submit.php
http://www.entireweb.com/free_submission/
http://searchsight.com/submit.htm
http://www.lii.org/cs/lii/create/todo
http://www.cuil.com/info/contact_us/feedback/?to=crawl%20me
http://www.whatuseek.com/
http://www.infotiger.com/addurl.html
http://www.cipinet.com/addurl/
http://search.sonicrun.com/add
http://www.webdirectory.co.in/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.linksite.net/submit.html
http://www.wondex.com/submit.php
http://www.wlinker.com/add_submit_url
http://www.intelseek.com/add_url_form.asp
http://www.finest4.com/submit.php
http://www.onemilliondirectory.com/submit.php
http://www.surfsafely.com/urladd.html
http://www.ablazedirectory.com/submit.php
http://www.thelivinglink.net/submit.php
http://www.clocktowerstudio.com/submit.php
Websites Submission Directories

You can also submit your website to the following links directories.

http://www.illumirate.com/add_your_site_exp.cfm
http://www.directorystorm.com/
http://www.mavicanet.com
http://www.dramba.com/
http://www.a1webdirectory.org/
http://www.webworldindex.com/
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://www.pedsters-planet.co.uk/directory/
http://www.newwebdirectory.com/
http://www.netinsert.com/
http://www.01webdirectory.com/
http://www.internet-web-directory.com/
http://www.amray.com/
http://www.cyberwebsearch.com/
http://www.worldsiteindex.com/
http://www.searchwebworld.com/
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/
http://www.tipsntutorials.com/Top-Directories/
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]]> A robots.txt file restricts or allow Search Engine Robots (known as “bots”) that crawl the web. These bots are automated, and before they access pages of a site, they check to see if a robots.txt file exists that prevents or allow them from accessing certain pages. If you do not put a robots.txt file in your website root directory (/public_html or www) then in log files there will be a warning that you have not robots file in your website root whenever a crawler will visit your web pages. So its necessary to use Robots file and to use it in a right way.

How to create a robots.txt file

This example allows all robots to visit all files because the wildcard “*” specifies all robots:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

This example keeps all robots out. No robot will visit your site and your pages will not be indexed by search engines:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The next is an example that tells all crawlers not to enter into four directories of a website:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /private/

Example that tells all crawlers not to enter one specific file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /directory/file.html
Crawl-delay directive

Several major crawlers support a Crawl-delay parameter, set to the number of seconds to wait between successive requests to the same server:

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Allow Directive

Allow file but disallow folder containing file, for example:

Allow: /folder1/myfile.html
Disallow: /folder1/
Extended Standard

An Extended Standard for Robot Exclusion has been proposed, which adds several new directives, such as Visit-time and Request-rate. For example:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /downloads/
Request-rate: 1/5         # maximum rate is one page every 5 seconds
Visit-time: 0600-0845     # only visit between 06:00 and 08:45 UTC (GMT)

Also read How to Use Correct robots.txt file

More Information

http://www.robotstxt.org
Google Guidelines about robots.txt

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]]> Here is the complete meta tags list which can be used in head section of website pages for SEO and other purposes.

Meta Tags Complete List
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="keyphrases" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="subject" CONTENT="Web Page Subject">
<meta name="abstract" content="">
<meta name="topic" content="">
<meta name="summary" CONTENT="">
<meta name="Classification" content="Business">
<meta name=geography content="">
<meta name="author" CONTENT="Javed, mail@server.com">
<meta name="designer" CONTENT="">
<meta name="copyright" content="">
<meta name="reply-to" content="mail@server.com">
<meta name="owner" content="">
<meta name=URL content="http://www.websiteurl.com">
<meta name="identifier-URL" content="http://www.url.com">
<meta name="directory" content="submission">
<meta name="category" content="some keywords">
<meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide">
<meta name="distribution" content="Global">
<meta name=Rating content="General">
<meta HTTP-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="robots" CONTENT="FOLLOW,INDEX">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
<meta name="revisit-after" CONTENT="7 days">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
Image Toolbar

Following tag hides imagetoolbar on images at mouseover event. It can be used when you donot want to show imagetoolbar at images which can save your images at your website from theft.

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
Difference Between Keyword And Keyphrase

keyword is single word and keyphrase can be more than one word. ‘web’ is keyword whereas ‘web style’ is a keyphrase.

Using Meta Tags to Block Access to Your Site

meta noindex will block spiders. DO NOT USE THIS.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
Made Tag

It is not meta tag though.

<link rev="made" href="mailto:webmasteremailaddress@server.com">
Page Transition
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="revealTrans(Duration=4,Transition=23)">
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="revealTrans(Duration=4,Transition=23)">

OR
you can use this very good single transition for atleast index page to appear with style.

<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendtrans(duration=1.0)">
Webpage Protection

For web Page Protection If Others Include your Page Into Their website Pages.

<meta http-equiv="Window-target" content="_top">

Above tag Specifies a target window.

Options:
Same Frame -_self
Whole Page -_top
New Window -_blank
Parent Frame-_parent

Refresh Content
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10, http://site.com">
META REDIRECT After Some Minutes

This will wait for some seconds and than will let the file download.

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10; RL=dnl/filename.zip">
Meta Tags Help And Check

http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/metatags.detail.html
http://www.submitcorner.com/Guide/Meta/
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/

Google Directory, Meta-Tags

Tools – Meta Tags
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