Use Semantic Coding (Semantic Markup)

September 23rd, 2008 • seo
Tags: html coding, html tags, optimized html code, search engine optimization, search engines, semantic, semantic coding, semantic markup, seo, site optimization, website promotion

I believe semantic coding (or semantic markup) is an important issue for search engine optimization that should always be in your mind when you design your web site.

It’s not a big deal, you can view semantic coding as a good programming practice. Like “Don’t use ‘goto’” sentences that you hear from everybody while starting to learn programming. The aim is to use correct tags to be more descriptive about the information contained in a web site. There is always more than one way to render something using HTML, but it’s important to choose the more descriptive markups in order to help search engines understand your content. Here is an example:

“<b>bold text</b>”  will produce “some bold text”

“<strong>bold text</strong>” will produce “some bold text”

To print some bold text on your screen you can use the above markups or any other way (defining styles etc.). However there’s something that “strong” tag will say to search engines that others won’t: The text rendered in bold is important. So use strong tags whereever you want bold text.

H (heading) tags are great examples of semantic coding. Normally putting the title of your page between appropriate H tags will inform search engines about important sentences in your content, in other words they will give an idea about the topic of web page. So it’ll be wise to use H1, H2, H3… tags whereever possible. But try to use only one H1 tag per page since search engines expect the heading of the page to be given between H1 tags — and one page normally will have one heading. For sub sections use H2, H3 etc.

Another important semantic markup is ul, li series. When you list some items, use them instead of any other markup.

I think you got the idea. So no need to go over all the tags (I have to go home now :)) So I’ll give you the list. You can go over the list by yourself: h1, h2, h3…, strong, em, ul, li, p, abbr, acronym, cite, code, ol, dfn.

I guess I forgot some

On Sugar Blogging Platform

September 21st, 2008 • general, wordpress
Tags: Blog, blog theme, blogging software, create blog, onsugar, search engine optimization, seo, sugar, website marketing, website promotion, wordpress

OnSugar

I noticed that I missed an article on TechCrunch which is about Sugar Inc. They have launched a new blogging service OnSugar.com. Of course I give it a try, created a couple of blogs - yep, it’s free - and even wrote a test post about RunSEORun.com. At first glance it seems a little ‘wordpress’ to me, then I dive deep and sees that at least the underlying interface is Wordpress-like. ‘Add Link’ pop-up was very familiar. It has a clean admin panel, not hard to get used to it. However there’s much work to do. At least they need to put a RSS link in blog templates by default. I really couldn’t find that. I created some generic named blogs, may be they will be of some use later.

You should give it a try as well.

Run SEO Run!

September 16th, 2008 • 3 comments general
Tags: run-seo-run, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, search engine optimization marketing, search engine placement, search engine ranking, search engine submission, search marketing, search optimization, seo, seo marketing, seo optimization, seo services, top search engine ranking, website promotion, welcome

Hi,

RunSEORun.com is my first and hopefully last blog on search engine optimization. Truly this blog is a total waste of time to me. I just want to apply some SEO techniques that I’ve encountered on net on this blog and observe the results. Any time I can quit posting.

That’s all for now.

See you on next post.