Chances are you already know that title tags are an important part of search engine optimization. Search engines give a considerable weight to your page titles when it comes to determining what your page is about. They will also use your title tag as the text to display in the link to your page when the page appears in search results. Your title tag can also help form the first impression someone makes about your web page and website.
Category: SEO
Matt Cutts Confirms Link Quality Important At Google
Earlier today Matt Cutts posted on his blog an Indexing Timeline as a way to provide information about what’s been going on since the ‘Big Daddy’ Update as far as pages being dropped from the Google index and not reappearing as fast some as webmasters might like. He did a little more than that in revealing a little about what Google thinks about link quality.
Is Google Measuring Traffic Patterns
You’re probably aware that Google now has many different ways to collect data about websites and visitor behavior and general traffic patterns. Since I’m always one to look where search engines, particularly Google might be heading I thought why not speculate a bit on how Google might be incorporating some of the traffic pattern data they’re gathering and how they might be applying it to their algorithm or business model in general.
SEO Basics Tutorial: Summary And Thoughts
If you’ve stuck through this entire seo basics tutorial hopefully you have a clearer idea of how to begin optimization of your website and web pages. The entire tutorial should at least have given you a lot to think about. I’d like to take a little time now to summarize some of the important points and mention a few things I didn’t cover about seo prior to now.
Tips For Getting Backlinks
If you want traffic for your site you need to get backlinks. Link building will be the most important thing you do as part of the optimization of your site. If you read the last part of this series you should have a better idea of what you want to look for in a backlink. Knowing what to look for is one thing, but I’m sure you want to know where to look. As promised here are some tips for where you can get backlinks for your site.