SEO Kryptonite Showdown Part 3: Frames

Frame Kryptonite What are Frames? HTML Frames define one particular window or frame within a frameset. The <frame> tag allow the site creators to add documents or an independent window inside an normal site page. Difference between Frames and iFrames? iFrames are simply Inline Frames, and all the formatting is contained within the iFrame tag. […]

SEO Kryponite Showdown Part 2: JavaScript

JavaScript Kryptonite What is JavaScript? Used to create dynamic, interactive user experiences on websites, JavaScript is a programming language that runs on the site visitors computer, meaning it’s client side computing.  Support for JavaScript is built right into modern web browsers, as long as the visitor has JavaScript enabled. Are JavScript and Java the same? […]

SEO Kryptonite Showdown Part 1: Flash

What Makes for SEO Kryptonite? Any type of site code technology that is difficult for Google to read may be considered SEO Kryptonite.  Google is getting better at reading all kinds of sloppy code and file types, but as an SEO it’s always better to take a more straight forward approach when creating websites or […]

Site Navigation for SEO: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Site Navigation Approaches When it comes to site navigation, there are lots of good, bad and ugly ways to help users and search engines find their way around your site. I’d like to show two bad approaches, with examples, and the optimal technique. I’m going to go in reverse order here in showing examples of […]

View Source Top 5: What Exactly Do I Look For?

SEOs know that viewing the page source of a particular web page is an essential first step to analyzing how much and what kind of SEO strategy may be needed for a site. A lot can be seen in just a few minutes by taking a look under the hood and viewing some of the […]

Meta Descriptions: For SEO or Visitors?

Simply put, metadata is data that describes other data. Webpages include metadata–called meta tags–that describe the content on the page. These include the Meta Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords. Titles are really important for SEO, descriptions are really important for searchers and keywords are not important at all. Ignore them, unless you particularly like […]