Reno SEO, Web Design & Internet Marketing » sparks seo firm

SEO Tidbit – June 22, 2009

Kristy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:19:51 +0000

Many designers, developers, content managers and webmasters forget to utilize text or body copy for navigation and internal linking structure. Part of a strong optimization process involves capitalizing on your content for in-content or contextual links which link to pages deep within you site.

Use good anchor text that relates to the page you are linking to and if possible use text that is found within your title tag, description or page headlines. Of course this may mean rewriting some of these elements to be more optimized to your targeted key phrase.

See you next week for another Tidbit!

SEO Tidbit – June 8th 2009

Kristy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:55:26 +0000

Do not allow your administration page to get indexed by the search engines

With this one simple line added to your robots.txt file you can avoid having your content management system (CMS) administration or login page indexed by the search engines.
Disallow: /admin/
Note: change “admin” to whatever directory or page has your CMS login on it. For example in WordPress this would be:
Disallow: /wp-login.php
For good measure you could also add this meta tag to the head of your login page or the index page in your login directory.
meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"

See you next week for another tidbit!