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Advanced SEO for Web Developers
- 1. Advanced SEO for Web Developers (Tag: #w2e_dev) Nathan Buggia Lead Program Manager Microsoft Webmaster Center
- 2. Nike.com
- 5. The Real Search Engine Experience
- 6. So What?
- 7. So What?
- 8. Alternate Implementation Nikhil’s Design Pattern - http://www.nikhilk.net/AjaxSEO.aspx
- 9. Big Hard Problems Affiliate/ URL Tracking Session management Rich internet applications Duplicate content (canonicalization) Geo-location Understanding analytics Redirection Error management …
- 10. Hello, I’m Nathan Buggia Webmaster Center Am I being indexed? Are there any penalties? How to submit sitemaps? --------------- Support Feedback News And they need it by when?!? … and they need more tools, and data and technical info, and 302s…
- 11. Define: SEO
- 12. SEO != SPAM
- 13. SEO = Good design Online Resources: www.aslistapart.org www.seomoz.org www.sitepoint.com
- 14. How search works 1. Crawling 2. Ranking (PageRank) Index Query Parsing Dynamic Ranking 3. Searching
- 15. QUESTIONS?
- 16. BUILDING PAGES
- 17. Use HTML Semantically <h1> My Article Title </h1> <p> Scientists reported Wednesday… </p> <span class=“heading1”> My Article Title </span> <p> Scientists reported Wednesday… </p>
- 18. Proper use of common tags <h1>, <h2>, <h3> Did you know there is only 1 per page? They signify the most important topic on the page. <meta name=“description” content=“”> Description tag is a must; make it short & sweet and unique to the page. You don’t need a keyword tag. <noscript> Actually useful to search engines and people with down-level experiences. <title> Description tag is a must; make it short & sweet and unique to the page. You don’t need a keyword tag. <a> Make sure that you use descriptive text in your anchor tags More Information Click Here SEO Presentation (Web 2.0), Download Pac Man 1.3
- 19. Improper use of common tags <blink> Really, I’m just kidding. Did you know MSFT never implemented support for this? When are they going to get onboard with HTML standards! (Still works in Firefox though!) <frame> If you use this, other web developers will mock you. Are you prepared for that kind of ridicule? <script> No links or redirects locked behind a script tag <img alt=“”> Don’t forget to include a description for search engines, and folks with slow connections. <meta> (the crazy ones: Refresh, Robots/Index,Follow) You can get caught up in supporting every last meta tag, don’t! Focus on the REP , and Description.
- 20. Rich internet applications Email, TurboTax, Admin Tools Classification Example SEO Capabilities Best Used for Monolithic Application has 1 URL for the world to see, and is a black box beyond that. Like hosting a rich application online. Entry point indexed Private data Long usage sessions Desktop-level functionality Linkable Application is a black box, but there are multiple URL entry-points for collaboration . Full site indexed Multiple entry points Shareable Crawlable Application is a small black box meant to spice up a content rich page. Full site indexed and well ranked ecommerce Content Community/ Viral http://finance.yahoo.com http://giffy.com
- 21. ASP.Net & Silverlight Watch out for ASP.Net post-backs, engines cannot crawl those URLs XHTML compliance in ASP.Net Whitepaper XHTML Compatibility Pack How to optimize Silverlight for search
- 22. Flash: Graceful Degradation Use Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) Uses JavaScript to render HTML in Flash Can slow down page loading times Or use SWFObject to detect no Flash support Displays HTML instead Ensure content is exactly the same or could have issues with search engine guidelines
- 23. AJAX and JavaScript Use the <noscript> tag! <head> <title>Title Of Your Site</title> <meta name="Description" content=”description of this page"/> </head> <body> Call AJAX and JavaScript here <script type="text/javascript"> <!--document.write(”content")//--> </script> <noscript> <p>Same content as in JavaScript</p> </noscript> </body> <html> Include static HTML links to an HTML page with the same content AJAX with progressive enhancement (Hijax)
- 25. Classing up your URLs http://store1.com/product.aspx?id=MB147L&SessionId=2344&RegionCode=en-US&format=rich&cat=3 http://store2.com/mp3_players/Apple_ipod_nano_16_G2_Black/ http://store3.com/mp3-players/Apple-ipod-nano-16-G2-Black/ store3.com mp3 Players apple ipod nano 16 G2 Black store2.com mp3_players Microsoft_Zune_80_G2_Black store1.com product.aspx id=MB147L SessionId=2344 RegionCode=en-US format=rich cat=3
- 26. HTTP status codes 200 OK W3 standard for HTTP Status Codes 304 Not Modified 404 Gone 301 Moved Permanently 302 Moved Temporarily
- 27. What is the difference? oreilly.com oreilly.com/index.csp www.oreilly.com www.oreilly.com/index.csp What’s the difference?
- 28. Canonicalization in action Check your site’s canonical forms using: Yahoo’s Site Explorer Canonical Form # Sites Linking In oreilly.com 25,030 oreilly.com/index.csp 0 www.oreilly.com 1,174,124 www.oreilly.com/index.csp 0
- 29. Canonicalization Recommendation 1) Chose www vs. non-www, 301 redirect one to the other Detailed article on the issue from Matt Cutts www.mysite.com mysite.com 3) Make all internal links to the correct canonical form 4) Use Google Webmaster Tools to select www vs non-www. 2) Trim your folder-level default filename off the end mysite.com/default.aspx mysite.com
- 30. ASP.Net URL Rewriting in ASP.Net Implementation whitepaper Work around for 404 error pages Implementing Redirects in ASP.Net Implementing Redirects in IIS ASP.Net URL session state management
- 31. Asp.Net Custom Error Pages HTTP/1.x 302 Found Location: http://www.globalscholar.com/Error.aspx GET /Error.aspx HTTP/1.1 Host: www.globalscholar.com Note: See: http://www.colincochrane.com/post/2008/01/ASP-NET-Custom-Errors-Preventing-302-Redirects-To-Custom-Error-Pages.aspx
- 32. ASP.Net 301 Redirects <script> protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently" ; Response.AddHeader("Location", "http://mysite.com/new-URL"); } </script> Include in any *.aspx file… (you don’t need a code behind file)
- 33. Other Redirects PHP <?php // Permanent redirection header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: http://www.domain.com/"); exit(); ?> Cold Fusion <CFHEADER statuscode="301" statustext="Moved Permanently”> <CFHEADER name="Location" value="http://www.domain.com/"> JSP <% response.setStatus(301); response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" ); response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" ); %>
- 34. ASP.Net Canonicalization protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString().ToLower().Contains( "http://www.mysite.com")) { HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"; HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", Request.Url.ToString().ToLower().Replace( "http://www.mysite.com", "http://mysite.com")); } } Create in your Global.asax file…. More information and examples: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=301+redirect+asp.net
- 35. IIS 301 Redirects Click here for a whitepaper
- 36. Apache Redirects Use .htaccess file for bulk operations: Moving a single page Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html Moving a site (and redirecting everything to the home page) Redirect 301 / http://www.example.com Changing file extension RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.example.com$1.php
- 37. Apache Canonicalization Use .htaccess for bulk operations: Non-www to www (need mod_rewrite enabled) Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond%{http_host} ^domain.com [nc] rewriterule^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]] Index page to root domain Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on # index.php to / RewriteCond%{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3, 9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/ RewriteRule^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]
- 38. Other Redirect Code Perl #! /usr/bin/perl use cgi; my $q = cgi->new(); print $q->redirect( -location => 'http://www.newsite.com/newpage.cgi’, -status => 301, ); ss
- 39. QUESTIONS?
- 41. Where to start 1) Branded Search 2) Keywords you want to rank for
- 42. What to look for Is my site showing up on the first page? Is my page indexed at all? (site: operator) Does the SERP result look compelling? Something that gets people excited to click-on Good title, description, correct URL Should your page be cached?
- 43. How to debug (Reference) Accessibility Check navigation to see if a search engine can access your page Check your REP to see if the search engine has permission to access Check if the search engine can parse your page Ranking How many people are linking in? Do you have canonicalization issues? What anchor text are they using? How are you linking internally to these pages? Content Do you have good, unique content on your pages? Are you using the language of your customers? Is your information Architecture optimized?
- 44. Tools of the Trade Accessibility Webmaster Tools ( Live Search , Google ) Firebug Developer Toolbar User Agent Switcher Live HTTP Headers Html Validator Ranking Live Search Webmaster Tools Rank Checker Yahoo Site Explorer Content AdCenter Excel Keyword Add-in http://www.vanessafoxnude.com/2008/04/02/diagnosing-site-infrastructure-issues-the-big-list-of-the-best-firefox-plugins/
- 45. Instrument everything important Web Metrics Conversion Customer Information! http://google.com/analytics http://adcenter.microsoft.com/analytics http://google.com/websiteoptimizer
- 46. Summary Design for your customers Be smart about robots Enjoy long-lasting success
- 47. Thank you! Slides: http://nathanbuggia.com/post/Web-20-Expo-Advanced-SEO-for-Developers.aspx Diagnostic checklists: http://janeandrobot.com/admin/Pages/seo-developer-accessibility-checklist.html http://janeandrobot.com/admin/Pages/seo-developer-discoverability-checklist.html Contact Me: Blog: http://nathanbuggia.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nathanbuggia
Editor's Notes
- #2: SPEAKER NOTES -------------------- Hey, I’m nate Way too much content in this deck to cover Goal is to: Convince you of the value of adopting these best practices Give you a sense of the biggest issues Provide a reference you can download later and fix everything you need to. Also, I big into real world examples, so if anyone has a website you want me to review, drop it on stage and at the end I’ll come take a look Also, afterwards I’ll be at the Q&A place for as long as you need to answer any questions In the building of any site, there are 10 people involved. Most orgs don't one person to do SEO, we think that will evolve. Kind of like security was 5 years ago.