Entries from July 2010 ↓

SEO – In your document head

July 30th, 2010 — html help, SEO

Between the <head> and the </head> tags of your page code, there are several tags you need to understand to make them work for you.

First there are two <meta> tags.

The meta keywords tag looks like this:

You would select a few of the most important keywords for your page to put here. When I say “a few”, I really mean just a few. Putting dozens or hundreds of “keywords” that you don’t even use on your page just means that the whole thing will be at best ignored. At worst, you can be punished for trying to cheat by putting keywords in there that are clearly not a part of your site.

In fact, at this time it appears that putting keywords in the meta keywords tag is probably not going to help your site. So many people cheated on it that Google no longer will count it for you.

Then there is the meta description tag. It’s pretty self-explanatory.

Finally, there is the page title.

<title>Your page title text goes here</title>

Your page title shows at the very top of the browser window in the blue bar. It also displays as the text for your link, if your page is indexed on Google.

The page title for this page is “SEO – In your document head | Help4flirts – Mozilla Firefox” if you are viewing this post as a single post, and “HTML, design, and graphics tutorials for flirts, PSO’s, and the adult entertainment industry – Mozilla Firefox” if you are viewing it in the main index view.

You really want your page to have a title that reflects what the page is about. Names like Untitled Document (18,000,000 pages) and Page title (598,000,000 pages), or Home (4,520,000,000 pages), well let’s just say they aren’t going to set you apart from your competitors, or anyone else for that matter.

Using somebody else’s site name as the page title on your site entry page? Skeezy.

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Setting up a new blog: plugins

July 26th, 2010 — SEO, Wordpress

Here’s the deal with WordPress plugins: there are a lot of plugins, and they are not all equally good. Some of them don’t do what you need. More plugins are not better. Sometimes having multiple plugins means that none of them work, or there may be unpredictable results.

When deciding to get a plugin, search on what you need to see what is available. Look at several to see which one seems to fit your needs the best before deciding to download. Read how to use it on the plugin site. After you install and activate it, look for a settings or configuration panel to see if you need to configure it. Then check to see if it is doing what you needed it to do. If you don’t like the plugin, you can deactivate it and try a different one.

Seo, keywords, description, etc.

The most effective SEO comes from having different keywords and description for each post, as well as a unique description and keywords for your homepage. If you have the exact same description and keywords for every page, you won’t get any more mojo from google than if you had none at all.

By the way, your pages will still get indexed if you don’t have these, but it is probably more efficient to have them.

robots.txt file

A robots.txt file tells bots what to index and what not to index. Without a robots.txt file, the bots will generally just index everything. You can exclude certain bots if you know you don’t want them on your site. You can also exclude certain pages from being indexed and links from being followed. If you really have no preferences, the following code will permit all bots and spiders to index your site:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

That’s it.

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Free Custom Callbutton Script

July 13th, 2010 — Callbuttons, Free!, Scripts

This script is a modification of Mistress V’s script so many people used to use before the transition. You will need hosting to use it. (To save $50 on a year’s hosting with Dreamhost, use the discount code CALLBUTTONDEAL.)

Included is a starter set of callbutton images: