Comments on: On-page SEO – The Google Way

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:33:31 +0000

@TenguTech – you are right, there are, my favorite is All in One SEO Pack. :) But this is not the point: not all SEO techniques are mandatory. Each site uses the techniques that work for it. This blog does not necessarily need a meta description, because it is indexed in Google News – and the news bots take a snippet from the text to match search queries.

By: TenguTech

TenguTech — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:10:21 +0000

I think it is a little ironic that this page does not use all the techniques mentioned. Specifically the ‘description’ meta tag is a generic one liner for the site. (There are Wordpress plug-ins that allow a different description for each post.)

By: sarpras

sarpras — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:40:52 +0000

Thank you very much…I use all this tips to my blog.

By: sitehatchery

sitehatchery — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:49:11 +0000

What I want to know is how Google crammed 22 pages, full of images, into 559KB (about 25KB per page)! Sweet. Seriously though, thanks for the resource.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:22:28 +0000

@krues8dr – no harm done. :)

@Brian Lawson – I think you should read the guide, try to implement the advice in the book and only after look for an SEO professional to help you with generating links for your site and promoting it for example.

@RogueScripts – I am glad you enjoyed the post, Harrison. In my opinion all onsite SEO techniques play a role for ranking and conversions, even those considered “optional”

By: biswa

biswa — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:57:00 +0000

Nice post for new SEO guy

By: Brian Lawson

Brian Lawson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:21:48 +0000

Could someone here who’s a good SEO person give me some feedback on the design of my site? It’s http://www.plastikka.com

Thanks!!!

By: Brian Lawson

Brian Lawson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:19:52 +0000

Thank you very much…I never knew there was a starter kit!!!

By: RogueScripts

RogueScripts — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:55:47 +0000

“Your meta-description suggestion is a bit of a red herring – there are many indications that Google doesn’t use that tag for ranking, only for display purposes, so it’s more post-SEO realistically. Something as simple as the proper use of heading tags is *far* more effective, and strangely lacking from this article.”

I disagree with that. SEO means Search Engine OPTIMIZATION. The ‘description’ that google pulls from your page and displays under title’s in its search results has a BIG impact on click through rates. If you don’t set your meta description manually and let google pull it randomly from your content, there is a big chance they are going to pull something that doesn’t make any sense, and its going to have an impact on how many people see your page in search results and actually click to go to it. If your site’s pages don’t have high click through rates when google displays them in their results, they aren’t going to rank high very long.

Good post.

By: krues8dr

krues8dr — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:23:22 +0000

Sorry @Mihaela, I was responding to @Louistar who I was mistaking for you.