Dont Overlook Your Tags

by

Pasta

Of

Pasta's Pissers

I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays. I know I am! A week off to recharge and *limiting* montitor time is working wonders.

When you build your pages do you utilize everything that is available to you? I am referring to heading tags <h1> thru <h6>. Since Starting my TGP I have viewed the source code of many pages. It's one of the perks of reviewing. You get to see how people create different html effects especially when they pop consoles on you :/.

Search engines like text in headings, especially if they are your page keywords. Headings also provide specfic layout characheristics, forcing a line break. Instead of building a vanilla page, utilize a page design heavy in heading tags. This is a very solid technique when building pages that I picked up on but havent used to is fullest potential. As the competition in the engines becomes more competitive, your placement within the search engines might need that <h1> thru <h6> little nudge so many pages lack.

Pasta's Cool DFN Link Of The Week

How You Doin?
Tired of Spam do something about it.

While reviewing a questionable gallery page over the weekend, I noticed that the page loaded well, but when I scrolled to the counter I still had 3/4's of my scroll bar left. I thought this was interesting and further investigation and highlighting the remainder of the page after the counter, I saw the word punishment repeated over and over again. I checked he source black text fontsize -1 on a black backround. A lost DFN using frontpage and outdated SE information. IF punishment was such an important keyword to this particular page, alt tags and a good descriptive text link utilizing some keywords would have been more beneficial, dont you think? A comment tag placed just below the title tag would have given better placement than spamdexing the engines with lots of similar colored backround text.

If you want to place well in the search engines, keep your prominent keyords as high on the page as possible. What do you do when a webpage takes forever to load? Spiders do the same thing. Bury your text at the bottom of your page, like just above the closing body tag... you'll do your fellow webmasters justice. :)

Hasta Pasta