Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Ben Nadel
I was wondering if anyone could give an opinion about search engine optimization. I have a site which is a standard HEADER, Left Column, Main Column type setup. Right now, the header comes first in the code as that is the way I have always written. However, now that I am thinking more about SEO, I

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:02, Ben Nadel wrote: SEO, I was wondering if it would make a difference to have the content column be FIRST in the code then have the header absolutely positioned to the top? It might make for better google snippits, but overall I can't see the spider caring. --

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk
The spider really look at the content more so than the layout (headers etc). As long as thats structured correctly then it should be fine. Check out how your site looks to spiders from this site (one of many i'm sure): http://www.dlperry.com/what_search_engine_spiders_see.html (from

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Dinowitz
and markup with good links for best effect. I was wondering if anyone could give an opinion about search engine optimization. I have a site which is a standard HEADER, Left Column, Main Column type setup. Right now, the header comes first in the code as that is the way I have always written. However

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Dinowitz
page with the specific keywords used MANY times. I was wondering if anyone could give an opinion about search engine optimization. I have a site which is a standard HEADER, Left Column, Main Column type setup. Right now, the header comes first in the code as that is the way I have always

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Rey Bango
Hey Ben, Here are some links to crank up with: http://dottactics.blogspot.com/2006/03/21-fastest-seo-tips.html http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm http://www.bruceclay.com/seo-tech-tips/techtips.htm You definitely want the

RE: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Ben Nadel
Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization The spider really look at the content more so than the layout (headers etc). As long as thats structured correctly then it should be fine. Check out how your site looks to spiders from this site (one of many i'm sure): http://www.dlperry.com

RE: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Ben Nadel
people call me the gangster of love. -Original Message- From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization Hey Ben, Here are some links to crank up with: http://dottactics.blogspot.com/2006/03/21-fastest

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2006-06-15 Thread Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk
: Search Engine Optimization The spider really look at the content more so than the layout (headers etc). As long as thats structured correctly then it should be fine. Check out how your site looks to spiders from this site (one of many i'm sure): http://www.dlperry.com

Search Engine Optimization

2004-08-10 Thread Ryan Mannion
I know this is a little off topic, but does anyone have any specific techniques they use to get the most out of thier listing in Search engines? Other than, the title tag, the amount of times the words are listed in the page etc, submitting to search engines directly, as well as having many links

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2004-08-10 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Ryan...search the archives over the past few weeks...asked and answered ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Dinowitz
SES Urls (article in FA), CSS for tighter code (Sandy speaking on it tonight or take her course), clean url spaces, good content on a regular rotation, lots o' links I know this is a little off topic, but does anyone have any specific techniques they use to get the most out of thier listing in

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Mason
Ryan, I can highly recommend a site called webmasterworld.com.Searching their forums will teach you anything you need to know about search engine optimization. There is also Brett Tabke's famous 26 steps for 15K a day.It's a bit dated but a good starting point. http://www.searchengineworld.com

RE: Search Engine Optimization

2004-08-10 Thread Ken Ferguson
Ryan, I've had tons of success with coding my applications so that I can go into the admin and write out the site in static HTML. Most of the big search engines are getting better at being able to crawl dynamic sites, but they crawl like mad when it's good ole static HTML text.Also, make sure you

Search Engine Optimization

2003-07-08 Thread Haggerty, Mike
There was a thread on this list recently about Search Engine Optimization for CF sites. Just so happens SEO has become an issue for me on a freelance project, and I want to start a list of best practices I can work into my development processes. Thus far, I have three items: 1) Configure

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2003-07-08 Thread Gyrus
At 15:37 08/07/2003 -0400, you wrote: There was a thread on this list recently about Search Engine Optimization for CF sites. Just so happens SEO has become an issue for me on a freelance project, and I want to start a list of best practices I can work into my development processes. Thus far, I

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2003-07-08 Thread Matt Robertson
-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:07:01 +0100 At 15:37 08/07/2003 -0400, you wrote: There was a thread on this list recently about Search Engine Optimization for CF sites. Just so happens SEO has become an issue for me on a freelance project, and I want to start a list of best practices I

RE: Search Engine Optimization

2003-07-08 Thread Taco Fleur
I can't see what this security issue has to do with SE friendly URLs, please explain? -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 6:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization Is there any benefit whatsoever to the first

RE: Search Engine Optimization

2003-07-08 Thread Matt Robertson
To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization Is there any benefit whatsoever to the first point (parsing other extensions thru CF)? I can believe it might have been true in the past but I've never had a problem getting CF pages indexed. I thought it was the parameters that *might* get

IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization]

2003-07-08 Thread Gyrus
At 14:07 08/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: I can't see what this security issue has to do with SE friendly URLs, please explain? To make SES urls work (i.e. foo.cfm/parm/value) you have to shut OFF the setting for verify that pages exist in IIS. I've been trying to figure out why that method

Re: Search Engine Optimization

2003-07-08 Thread Jason Miller
--- -- Original Message -- From: Gyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:07:01 +0100 At 15:37 08/07/2003 -0400, you wrote: There was a thread on this list recently about Search Engine Optimization

Re: IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization]

2003-07-08 Thread Matt Robertson
Sure. Open the IIS manager Right click on a site and choose Properties Click the Home Directory tab Click the Configuration button (lower right of dialog) Click the .cfm extension and choose 'Edit' The lower left checkbox: Check that File Exists If you leave that on (the default) IIS will throw

Re: IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization]

2003-07-08 Thread Gyrus
At 14:34 08/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: Open the IIS manager Right click on a site and choose Properties Click the Home Directory tab Click the Configuration button (lower right of dialog) Click the .cfm extension and choose 'Edit' The lower left checkbox: Check that File Exists If you leave that

Re: IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization]

2003-07-08 Thread Mahmut Basaran
- From: Gyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:25 AM Subject: IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization] At 14:07 08/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: I can't see what this security issue has to do with SE friendly URLs, please

RE: IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization ]

2003-07-08 Thread Costas Piliotis
work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization] At 14:07 08/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: I can't see what this security issue has to do with SE friendly URLs, please explain? To make SES urls work (i.e. foo.cfm/parm/value) you have to shut OFF the setting for verify that pages exist in IIS. I've been

RE: IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization ]

2003-07-08 Thread Gyrus
At 15:27 08/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: Dumb q... SES urls... Are they even required any more? I mean, the smarter engines follow links through your site, so is it really necessary? AFAIK Googlebot only crawls dynamic pages that are linked to from static pages - an obvious rule to avoid the

RE: IIS and making SES URLs work [WAS: Search Engine Optimization ]

2003-07-08 Thread Brook Davies
Our pages, using SES url's get good ranking at google. An example is if you search for football eye shield you get this indexed link: