Comments on: Writing for SEO: The Major On-page SEO Scoring Factors

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:02:36 +0000

good article and very detailed.

as for my part, i always keep an SEO sheet by my side and check every page that i have.

and onething i want to add is that link position is also important for internal links, which will give a vote to other pages in site.

By: Adam Audette

Adam Audette — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:19:36 +0000

Wii Accessories,

Linking to relevant sites does a number of good things for SEO and marketing. Among them is the fact that (as shared by Matt Cutts) they contribute to the scoring of a page by Google’s algo.

By: Wii Accessories

Wii Accessories — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:29:47 +0000

Hi
Brilliant info and really useful for an SEO learner like myself. I have one question though relating to this ” For external links, try to link to authoritative, high-quality and non-commercial sites whenever possible.”

Why is it important to link out to external sites as I thought it was more important to get high authoritative links into your site. Surely you are sending link juice to these sites for little return or is it that the SE see that you have relevant content to your link and you know what you are talking about?
Many thanks

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:05:03 +0000

Meg, can you comment on the importance of breadcrumbs ?

By: joelchrist

joelchrist — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:21:44 +0000

Really great content folk, it would be useful to know about importance of on page optimization and site content to the newbies. Thanks.

By: Adam Audette

Adam Audette — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:34:40 +0000

@Howard, rather than think in terms of bolding or italicizing “still working” for SEO, I find it more useful to think about how you can display terms with emphasis on a page, and make that page focused on those terms. Is it bolding? Sometimes, but other times it may be an image with a relevant alt attribute, or the markup of page with headings, or just frequent use of keyword themes throughout a page. My .02.

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:47:20 +0000

Does bold and italic still work?

Seems to be many comments suggesting otherwise.

By: Meg Thompson

Meg Thompson — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:24:38 +0000

Hi Morten,

Good question.

Since an h1 tag is meant to support the overall “theme” or topic for a specific page, it’s best to be kept to only one relevant, targeted topic in order to ascertain relevancy for that page. Much like an outline, heading tags should be in a logical hierarchy with h1 tags providing the overall theme and subsequent heading tags supporting the h1 tag and the relevancy on the page.

Thanks for commenting!

Meg

By: Morten

Morten — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:32:53 +0000

Hi
Thanks for this nice info.

You said: “Use only one (1) h1 tag” - can you explain why?

Morten from Denmark