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An insight into what Search Engines like

Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Author: Ryan | Filed under: SEO | Tags: , |

Search Engine Optimisation is an important part of any successful Website design.
The Success of your Search Engine Optimisation depends on the understanding of what a search engine likes.

Search Engines like :

  • Content that is visible to their spiders without meta barriers that may stop them from indexing the pages.
  • Content that loads quickly so that their spiders can efficiently index the data.
  • More content in the page than the mark-up code used to generate the page.
  • Content that is keyword rich (not jam packed) and valuable to visitors of your site.
  • Content that has a clear information hierarchy so that spiders can understand what content and variations (navigation, headings and links etc.) on the page are about.
  • Links to your site from reputable sources so they can ascertain the reputation of your site.
  • Clear and meaningful urls with keywords in them.
  • Finally domain names that have been in existence and running for a while, with registration for more than a year.
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2 Comments on “An insight into what Search Engines like”

  1. 1 Ryan McNair’s Blog » Blog Archive » SEO - Meta tags, Keywords and Accessibility said at 8:21 pm on July 1st, 2009:

    [...] my previous post “An insight into what Search Engines like” I discussed a point on search engines liking content that does not have meta [...]

  2. 2 Ryan McNair’s Blog » Blog Archive » Accessibility - Writing Semantic Mark-up said at 4:27 pm on July 7th, 2009:

    [...] one of my previous posts “An Insight into What Search Engines like”, I discussed a point on having a clear information hierarchy. Clear information hierarchies are [...]


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