Jan
30
If you update/write your blog in a HTML-based editor (like Dreamweaver, or in the HTML section of WordPress’ “Write Post”), I would like to mention just a few basic tips that are SEO friendly and Web 2.0 (current) when doing your post:
- When you need something centered, use <p align=”center”>centered data<p> instead of <center></center>. This is because the <center> tags were made for older browsers, and it is possible that future browsers may not accept it.
- When making a link/anchor reference (<a href=”" ..etc>), always have a title=’(page title)’ option. This helps search engines as they crawl the link to help define it when indexing. This is also valuable in an <img src> tag.
- Always use <p>paragraph</p> at the start and endings of your paragraph. This helps crawlers distinguish paragraphs for when they include info in a site listing or some other media so that paragraphs do not run and concatenate together.
These are just a few, but very helpful if you’re getting started in the blog business.
Happy Blogging! 
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yeah..something & for “&”…nice post
Thanks for letting me know about the error… it’s fixed.
The bit about how to properly center things has been driving me nuts! Thanks for the help. Going to try it out for sure.
This is a great post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Thanks for the tip.
Easy, but useful thanks a lot !
Cheers,
The Moneyac
I am fairly new to SEO. The paragraph tip is much appreciated. It seems so intuitive yet I failed to utilize it.
How did the xhtml not work for you? I would be happy to help you further.
Thanks for the title tip, I haven’t been using that at all. Actually I didn’t even know you could do that. I’ve got some experimenting to do.
Steve
great tips.Does the center tag have any importance on seo ?
I read that 95% of websites have code that doesn’t comply to w3c. I think backwards compatibility with older HTML code will be always supported.
I wouldn’t agree with title tags too – the anchor of the hyperlink tells what’s on the target site – especially when other blog system than wordpress don’t allow titles in links.
Hey thanks for the tips man. I shall implement right away.
Cheers Mate. i never know about them. I hope these tips will make rapid progress for my blog. I need to check how many error i have got from w3c.org
it s a very nice place.
I use the center tag quite often, I’ll have to get into the habit of using the paragraph align tag instead! It’s quite difficult breaking habits though!
Good thinking tags are off my page!
Thanks for the tips, I couldn’t figure it out, by myself.
I’d add rel=”canonical” tag, which helps to avoid the double content penalty.
Try this plugin: Canonical URL Wordpress Plugin.
Getting your content found by the search engines is key to driving organic traffic, so these basic SEO tips are really appreciated, especially by newbs like me. One question – does the “All in One SEO Plugin” do the same thing automatically, or does it still need manual adjusting?
Simple yet effective tips. It would be nice to see more HTML tags referenced here as they are of a big help.
very nice article and nice tips and looking forward to read such blog.
hehe finally someone who tells me how i can make more w3c friendly
Thanks for the tips. I’m glad I can utilize them in Wordpress. I definitely need to start using “title=” because I never do.
I am going to correct it right away…
One should always try to stick to w3.org standards when developing html – this way everone benefits – now and in the future
I actually didn’t know about the paragraph attribute possibly helping out the search engine and identifying the paragraphs more clearly. I had always neglected the paragraph html code, and I always opted to use the br for enter, hehe.
Till then,
Jean
Eventhough these codes are just HTML basics, it is indeed helpful to bloggers because it lets them somehow ‘lay-out’ the outlook of their blog.
This would serve as a very helpful article to newbies when it comes to blogging or simply when creating your own HTML pages.
Thanks for the information.
Thank you very much for the tags. Best regards from Germany!
very helpful tips,thank you