Posts Tagged ‘Code’

Be Specific: Using Semantic XHTML for Search Engines

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Using the <acronym>, <abbr>, and <address> tags to improve readability for disabled users, web crawlers, and search engines.

You want to make your website as informative as possible, right? For search engines, users – everybody. Help search engines, disabled (blind) users, and any users who may not understand the meaning of your acronym or abbreviation by using semantic XHTML tags like the <acronym>, <abbr>, and <address> tags in context. (more…)

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Using the META Robots Tag

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Tutorial: How to use the Meta Robots tag — code examples, meanings, and all the major REP directives.

I’ve seen a whole lot of websites lately that are wasting space (and the time it took to write it) by implementing the Meta Robots tag like this:

  1. <meta name="robots" content="all, index, follow" />

If you want search engine bots to crawl and index your website, then just leave it alone. By default, search engines will crawl, index, and archive every page on your website that they can find by following links. You also don’t have to say “all” — every bot that obeys the Robots Meta tag will obey it by default.

So not only is that example pointless because that is the default, it is repeating the same command twice!

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