Comments on: The top 3 most powerful changes for ON PAGE optimization

By: Vectorgraphx

Vectorgraphx — Mon, 01 May 2006 20:51:48 +0000

Good tip on the javascript select box – thanks! you could even put it in a .js external file and reduce the bandwidth overhead that much more. Also – I’m thoroughly convinced that on-page optimization is still alot more important than alot of people claim. Especially with MSN.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:08:46 +0000

Thanks, SiCK!

I agree 100% with your take on the importance of clickability of the listing. If the listing in the results looks like keyword stuffed spam, it isn’t going to generate the CTR it would if it looked more natural. I’ll take a title tag that looks natural with 2 keyphrases in it over one stuffed with 3-5 anyday.

“Cool” is a good trick. Here is one I use– put the price in the title and the meta. If your page is describing a specific item, I’ve found that putting the price in the SE listing is quite effective (assuming price is a selling point on your site):

Hand-painted Vermont Widgets – Low price: $23.95

By: SiCK

SiCK — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:45:43 +0000

Good article hoff!

Two more things I use. Once you rank high in the SERPs, you gotta get the user to click the link. To do this:

. Concentrate on the meta description tag. Yahoo shows it more often than the text the person is looking for.

. Use something to attract the user to your link in the search engine in the title. I use “Cool – “. People are drawn to it and just want to see cool things.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:42:25 +0000

True; you can re-arrange the order that the spider reads the text with tables or with absolutely positioned DIVs. However, the text is still on the page and still reducing relevant keyword density. If you write the text out with Javascript, you have effectively removed the words from the page– increasing the relevance of the words that remain. This may be important if your menu is 100 words long but the rest of the page only has 300 words of content. Thank you for coming by!

By: tavikki.no

tavikki.no — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:42:28 +0000

Hello.

Your theory is interesting and i have used the same action several times, but is you put the left links into tables and leave the first table emty wouln’t this also do the trick becaus the spiders read from right to left and uses the first table and then jumps over to the next at the left? By doing this the spider will read the first emty table, then the content table and then over to the next table that have link content?