Report home > Computer / Internet

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet

1.80 (5 votes)
PDFCast is not affiliated with the authors of this page or responsible for its content.
This HTML preview only show 10 first pages of the document. Please download to read full content.
The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
Revision 07
Important SEO HTML tags
Search Engine Indexing Limits
*Does not apply to websites with signi?cant authority
<head>
Page File Size No more than 150 kilobytes (Before Images, CSS and other Attachments)
Title Tag
<title>Keyword</title>
</head>
Amount of No more than 100 unique links per page
links
Title Tag
No more than 70 characters
<h1>Most Important</h1>
H1,H2,H3
<h2>Second Most Important</h2>
Meta
No more than 155 characters
<h3>Third Most Important</h3>
Description
Bad Example:
http://www.mysite.com/brands.php?
Bold, Strong
<b>Keyword</b>
Parameters in No more than 2 object=1&type=2&kind=3&node=5&arg=6
(Same Worth) <strong>Keyword</strong>
URL
Good Example:
Image
http://www.mysite.com/brands.php?nike
<img src=”keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” />
(XHTML)
Bad Example:
http://www.mysite.com/people/places/things/
Hyperlink
<a href=”http://www.mysite.com/webpage.html” title=”keyword”>Keyword
noun/danny/car
in Anchor Text</a>
Depth of URL No more than 4
*Best Practice
Hyperlink
<a href=”http://www.mysite.com/webpage.html” title=”keyword”
Good Example:
(No Followed) rel=”nofollow”>Keyword in Anchor Text</a>
http://www.mysite.com/people/danny/
Recommended Title Tag Syntax
301 Redirect for Apache
Keyword < Category | Website Title
Write to ?le called ‘.htaccess’. The ?le is named only as an extension.
Hidden ?les must be viewable in operating system. mod_rewrite must be enabled
Command
Description
Common Canonical Homepage Issue
http://www.mysite.com
Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.newdomain.com/
Redirect single ?le or directory to a new
http://mysite.com
newpage.html
?le or directory on a different domain
Bad
http://www.mysite.com/index.html
http://mysite.com/index.html
RewriteEngine on
Redirect http://mysite.com to http://
Good
http://www.mysite.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
www.mysite.com. Affects entire domain.
To condense the four default homepages into one homepage, use
301 redirects (See table on right) to correct for erroneous incoming
Entire site:
links and make all internal links point to your domain using the
Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/
Redirect entire domain to a new domain
syntax ‘http://www.mysite.com/’. Always include trailing “/” on folders.
Redirect permanent /old http://www.newdomain.com/new
as either a 301 (recommended) or 302

The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
Important Search Engine Robots
Robots Meta Tag
Last updated April 29th 2008. Check http://www.user-agents.org/ for updates
<meta name=”ROBOT NAME” content=”ARGUMENTS” />
Google Search
Googlebot/2.1 ( http://www.google.com/bot.html)
ROBOT NAME can be either “robots” for all robots
Google Search
Googlebot/2.1 ( http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
or the user-agent of a speci?c robot.
Google Image Search
Googlebot-Image/1.0
See robot user-agent list to the left.
Google Image Search
Googlebot-Image/1.0 ( http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Arguments
MSN Search
msnbot/x.xx ( http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
noindex
Google, Yahoo, Live,
Page Not Indexed
Ask
MSN Search
MSNBOT/0.xx (http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) 
nofollow
Google, Yahoo, Live,
All Links on Page
MSN Media Search Robot
msnbot-media/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
Ask
Become No Followed
Windows Live Product Search
msnbot-Products/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) 
noarchive
Google, Yahoo, Live,
Page Not Cached
Ask
Microsoft Search for Mobiles
MSNBOT_Mobile MSMOBOT Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.02; Windows CE; Default)
Stops Description and Title
noodp
Google, Yahoo, Live
Tag Overwrite by DMOZ
Alexa / The Internet Archive
ia_archiver
(Only for Homepage)
Alexa / The Internet Archive
ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Stops Description and
noydir
Alexa / The Internet Archive
ia_archiver/1.6
Yahoo
Title Tag Overwrite by
Yahoo Directory
Yahoo Blog Search
Yahoo-Blogs/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/crawling/
Stops Google from
crawling-02.html )
nosnippet
Google
Generating Description
Yahoo Multimedia Search
Yahoo-MMAudVid/1.0 (mms dash mmaudvidcrawler dash support at yahoo dash inc dot com)
Based on On-page Text
Yahoo Product Search
YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/)
Yahoo Product Search
YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://search.yahoo.com/yahooseeker.html)
Sitemap Syntax
Yahoo Product Search
YahooSeeker/1.1 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/)
<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=’UTF-8’?>
<urlset xmlns=’http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9’>
<url>
Ask/Teoma Search
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves)
<loc>http://www.mysite.com/</loc>
Ask/Teoma Search
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)
<lastmod>1987-05-25</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
Ask/Teoma Search
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml)
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
Common Robot Traps
Robots.txt Syntax
Default Locations Search Engines Look for Sitemaps
Input Forms
User-agent: *
http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
Session IDs in URL
Disallow: /privatefolder/
Disallow: /private?le.html
http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml.gz
Pages Restricted by Cookies
http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.gz
Frames
User-agent: Googlebot/2.1
Disallow: /nogoogle.html
Visit http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ for a free sitemap
Logins
Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

  • Description
  • Document Detail
  • Submitter
The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
Important SEO HTML tags
Search Engine Indexing Limits
Common Canonical Homepage Issue
Important Search Engine Robots
Common Robot Traps

Add New Comment




Related Documents

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet

by: williamstt, 2 pages

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet Important SEO HTML tags Search Engine Indexing Limits Common Canonical Homepage Issue Important Search Engine Robots Common Robot ...

White Paper: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

by: williamstt, 9 pages

This paper will provide you with a simple set of non-technical guidelines for improving your web site’s performance in all major search engines. Regardless of your level of familiarity with the ...

Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

by: manualzon, 22 pages

ebook on SEO made by Google themself, contains various useful information on rank well on serp and other tips to survive on the internet arena

SEO for WordPress Blogs: How to use WordPress to ensure success for your weblog in the Organic Search Engine Results Blogs

by: manualzon, 14 pages

internet marketing and SEO ebook with wordpress to ensure success weblog in the Organic Search Engine such as Google, Bing and Yahoo

Backlink SEO

by: Baris Yardimoglu, 5 pages

backlink building seo

The retrospective gambler's fallacy: Unlikely events, constructing the past, and multiple universes

by: shinta, 9 pages

The gambler’s fallacy (Tune, 1964) refers to the belief that a streak is more likely to end than chance would dictate. In three studies, participants exhibited a retrospective ...

Practical Applications of the McKinsey 7-S Framework

by: shinta, 4 pages

Some practical tips on how to use the McKinsey 7-S Framework to enhance your change management initiative. The 7-S Framework can be very useful in different ways in different phases of ...

Photoshop CS2 Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide

by: desantis, 26 pages

SYBEX Sample Chapter Photoshop CS2 Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide Chapter 5: Tone and Color

Low-Fat Diet and Chronic Disease Prevention: the Women’s Health Initiative and Its Reception

by: shinta, 4 pages

The Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial was designed to study a low-fat diet, a nutritional approach to prevention of chronic diseases that was considered ...

Motion to dismiss the Bronfman’s Restraining order

by: john, 4 pages

Her motion to dismiss the Bronfman’s Restraining order to make all the dirty secrets public

The Effect of Brand Awareness on the Evaluation of Search Engine Results

by: shinta, 6 pages

In this paper we investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., identifying name that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. Our ...

Download
The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet

 

 

Your download will begin in a moment.
If it doesn't, click here to try again.

Share The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet to:

Insert your wordpress URL:

example:

http://myblog.wordpress.com/
or
http://myblog.com/

Share The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet as:

From:

To:

Share The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet.

Enter two words as shown below. If you cannot read the words, click the refresh icon.

loading

Share The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet as:

Copy html code above and paste to your web page.

loading
Data Mining, Pontiac Repair, Volkswagen Repair, Instruction Manuals, Hacking Books, Network Security, Nissan Patrol, JCB Manual, BMW Repair Manual, Repair Manual

solution manuals and test banks 2, common laboratory apparatus, perspectives on the 21st century development of functional foods bridging chinese medicated diet and functional foods, tips for developing a marketing plan heavenly pies example, complete test bank exam bank for textbooks, comparing expected leadership styles in taiwan and the united states a study of university employees, brain cysts, solutions manual test banks new 1, team building competency development activities