Activity 5: SEO and Pagination
1. Define SEO- the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine.
2. Define Pagination- the process of dividing (content) into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.
3. How and why are unique & accurate page titles important- there is an infinite number of pages and page titles so unique and accurate ones help other to find your site.
4. Why are descriptions important?- descriptions are important because descriptions help search engines to find you website
5. What is a Meta Tag?- data about data
6. How can one improve the structure of a website?- Creating descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website can not only help you keep your site better organized, but it could also lead to better crawling of your documents by search engines.
7. How can a webmaster Optimize Content?- alt tags, meta tags among other tags
8. Why should a webmaster offer quality content and services- because webmasters want their sites reconized and to have more people using it.
9. What is an anchor text? How can it improve your SEO?- Anchor text is the clickable text that users will see as a result of a link, and is placed within the anchor tag <a href="..."></a>. the better your anchor text is, the easier it is for users to navigate and for Google to understand what the page you're linking to is about.
10. How can a webmaster Optimize the use of images?- alt tags optimize images on you page
11. Why are heading tags important when dealing with Crawlers?- so that it goes from most important to least important and it helps users visualize it from most to least important.
12. How can you make effective use of robots.txt- It stops users from going to certain pages on your site.
13. Why should you be aware of rel=”nofollow” for links?- nofollow links tell Google that links or comments on your site shouldn’t be followed or affect your websites reputation.
14. How does one SEO for Mobile Phones?- DTD (Doc Type Definition)" declaration. Check that your mobile-friendly URLs' DTD declaration is in an appropriate mobile format such as XHTML Mobile or Compact HTML (3). If it's in a compatible format, the page is eligible for the mobile search index.
15. How does one notify Google of mobile sites?- Create a mobile site map and then submit it to google to inform them of the site exsitance.
16. How does one promote their website in the right ways- by adding blog posts when there is something new and making sure you are getting you url out there the right ways.
17. What are some free webmaster tools?- Major search engines, yahoo, and Microsoft.
1. Pagination
2. Page Description
3. keywords
4. Heading font
5. image file name
6. optimize content
7. navigation
8. meta tagging
9. page titles
10. proper pages