1 | Keywords in tag <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%; height: 47.25pt;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This is one of the most important places to have a keyword because what is written inside the <title> tag shows in search results as your page title. The title tag must be short (6 or 7 words at most) and the the keyword must be near the beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%; height: 47.25pt;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">2<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords in URL<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords in URLs help a lot - e.g. - <a href="http://domainname.com/seo-success.html">http://domainname.com/seo-services.html</a>, where “SEO services” is the keyword phrase you attempt to rank well for. But if you don't have the keywords in other parts of the document, don't rely on having them in the URL.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">3<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword density in document text<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Another very important factor you need to <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php">check</a>. 3-7 % for major keywords is best, 1-2 for minor. Keyword density of over 10% is suspicious and looks more like keyword stuffing, than a naturally written text.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">4</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords in anchor text</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Also very important, especially for <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/anchor-text-analysis.php">the anchor text of inbound links</a>, because if you have the keyword in the anchor text in a link from another site, this is regarded as getting a vote from this site not only about your site in general, but about the keyword in particular. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">5<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords in headings (<h1>, <h2>, etc. tags)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">One more place where keywords count a lot. But beware that your page has actual text about the particular keyword.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">6<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords in the beginning of a document<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Also counts, though not as much as anchor text, title tag or headings. However, have in mind that the beginning of a document does not necessarily mean the first paragraph – for instance if you use tables, the first paragraph of text might be in the second half of the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">7<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords in <alt> tags<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Spiders don't read images but they do read their textual descriptions in the <alt> tag, so if you have images on your page, fill in the <alt> tag with some keywords about them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">8<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords in metatags<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Less and less important, especially for Google. Yahoo! and MSN still rely on them, so if you are optimizing for Yahoo! or MSN, fill these tags properly. In any case, filling these tags properly will not hurt, so do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">9<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword proximity<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword proximity measures how close in the text the keywords are. It is best if they are immediately one after the other (e.g. “dog food”), with no other words between them. For instance, if you have “dog” in the first paragraph and “food” in the third paragraph, this also counts but not as much as having the phrase “dog food” without any other words in between. Keyword proximity is applicable for keyword phrases that consist of 2 or more words.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">10<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword phrases<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">In addition to keywords, you can optimize for keyword phrases that consist of several words – e.g. “SEO services”. It is best when the keyword phrases you optimize for are popular ones, so you can get a lot of exact matches of the search string but sometimes it makes sense to optimize for 2 or 3 separate keywords (“SEO” and “services”) than for one phrase that might occasionally get an exact match.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">11<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Secondary keywords<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Optimizing for secondary keywords can be a golden mine because when everybody else is optimizing for the most popular keywords, there will be less competition (and probably more hits) for pages that are optimized for the minor words. For instance, “real estate <st1:state st="on">new jersey</st1:state>” might have thousand times less hits than “real estate” only but if you are operating in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">New Jersey</st1:place></st1:state>, you will get less but considerably better targeted traffic. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">12<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword stemming<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">For English this is not so much of a factor because words that stem from the same root (e.g. dog, dogs, doggy, etc.) are considered related and if you have “dog” on your page, you will get hits for “dogs” and “doggy” as well, but for other languages keywords stemming could be an issue because different words that stem from the same root are considered as not related and you might need to optimize for all of them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">13<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Synonyms<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Optimizing for synonyms of the target keywords, in addition to the main keywords. This is good for sites in English, for which search engines are smart enough to use synonyms as well, when ranking sites but for many other languages synonyms are not taken into account, when calculating rankings and relevancy. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">14<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword Mistypes<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Spelling errors are very frequent and if you know that your target keywords have popular misspellings or alternative spellings (i.e. Christmas and Xmas), you might be tempted to optimize for them. Yes, this might get you some more traffic but having spelling mistakes on your site does not make a good impression, so you'd better don't do it, or do it only in the metatags.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">0</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">15<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword dilution <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">When you are optimizing for an excessive amount of keywords, especially unrelated ones, this will affect the performance of all your keywords and even the major ones will be lost (diluted) in the text.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 46, 35);">-2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">16<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keyword stuffing<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Any artificially inflated keyword density (10% and over) is keyword stuffing and you risk getting banned from search engines. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td colspan="3" style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 93%;" valign="top" width="93%"> <p><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Links - internal, inbound, outbound </span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">17</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Anchor text of inbound links<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">As discussed in the Keywords section, this is one of the most important factors for good rankings. It is best if you have a keyword in the anchor text but even if you don't, it is still OK.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">18</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Origin of inbound links<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Besides the anchor text, it is important if the site that links to you is a reputable one or not. Generally sites with greater Google PR are considered reputable. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">19</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Links from similar sites<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Having links from similar sites is very, very useful. It indicates that the competition is voting for you and you are popular within your topical community. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">20</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Links from .edu and .gov sites<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">These links are precious because .edu and .gov sites are more reputable than .com. .biz, .info, etc. domains. Additionally, such links are hard to obtain. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">21</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Number of <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/importance-of-backlinks-article-5.php">backlinks</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Generally the more, the better. But the reputation of the sites that link to you is more important than their number. Also important is their anchor text, is there a keyword in it, how old are they, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">22<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Anchor text of internal links<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This also matters, though not as much as the anchor text of inbound links.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">23<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Around-the-anchor text<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The text that is immediately before and after the anchor text also matters because it further indicates the relevance of the link – i.e. if the link is artificial or it naturally flows in the text. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">24<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Age of inbound links<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The older, the better. Getting many new links in a short time suggests buying them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">25<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Links from directories<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Great, though it strongly depends on which directories. Being listed in DMOZ, Yahoo Directory and similar directories is a great boost for your ranking but having tons of links from PR0 directories is useless and it can even be regarded as link spamming, if you have hundreds or thousands of such links. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">26<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Number of outgoing links on the page that links to you<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The fewer, the better for you because this way your link looks more important. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">27<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Named anchors<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Named anchors (the target place of internal links) are useful for internal navigation but are also useful for SEO because you stress additionally that a particular page, paragraph or text is important. In the code, named anchors look like this: <a href=" “#dogs”">Read about dogs</a> and “#dogs” is the named anchor. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">28<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">IP address of inbound link<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/">Google denies</a> that they discriminate against links that come from the same IP address or C class of addresses, so for Google the IP address can be considered neutral to the weight of inbound links. However, MSN and Yahoo! may discard links from the same IPs or IP classes, so it is always better to get links from different IPs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">29<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Inbound links from link farms and other suspicious sites <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This does not affect you in any way, provided that the links are not reciprocal. The idea is that it is beyond your control to define what a link farm links to, so you don't get penalized when such sites link to you because this is not your fault but in any case you'd better stay away from link farms and similar suspicious sites. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">0</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">30<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Many outgoing links<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Google does not like pages that consists mainly of links, so you'd better keep them under 100 per page. Having many outgoing links does not get you any benefits in terms of ranking and could even make your situation worse.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 106, 95);">-1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">31<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Excessive linking, link spamming<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">It is bad for your rankings, when you have many links to/from the same sites (even if it is not a cross- linking scheme or links to bad neighbors) because it suggests link buying or at least spamming. In the best case only some of the links are taken into account for SEO rankings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 106, 95);">-1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">32<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Outbound links to link farms and other suspicious sites<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Unlike inbound links from link farms and other suspicious sites, outbound links to <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/bad-neighborhood-article-13.php">bad neighbors</a> can drown you. You need periodically to check the status of the sites you link to because sometimes good sites become bad neighbors and vice versa. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">33<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Cross-linking<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Cross-linking occurs when site A links to site B, site B links to site C and site C links back to site A. This is the simplest example but more complex schemes are possible. Cross-linking looks like disguised reciprocal link trading and is penalized. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">34<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Single pixel links<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">when you have a link that is a pixel or so wide it is invisible for humans, so nobody will click on it and it is obvious that this link is an attempt to manipulate search engines. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td colspan="3" style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 93%;" valign="top" width="93%"> <p><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Metatags </span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">35<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><description> metatag<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Metatags are becoming less and less important but if there are metatags that still matter, these are the <description> and <keywords> ones. Use the <description> metatag to write the description of your site. Besides the fact that metatags still rock on MSN and Yahoo!, the <description> metatag has one more advantage – it sometimes pops in the description of your site in search results. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">36<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><keywords> metatag<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The <keywords> metatag also matters, though as all metatags it gets almost no attention from Google and some attention from MSN and Yahoo! Keep the metatag reasonably long – 10 to 20 keywords at most. Don't stuff the <keywords> tag with keywords that you don't have on the page, this is bad for your rankings. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">37<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><language> metatag<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">If your site is language-specific, don't leave this tag empty. Search engines have more sophisticated ways of determining the language of a page than relying on the <language>metatag but they still consider it. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">38<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><refresh> metatag<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The <refresh> metatag is one way to redirect visitors from your site to another. Only do it if you have recently migrated your site to a new domain and you need to temporarily redirect visitors. When used for a long time, the <refresh> metatag is regarded as unethical practice and this can hurt your ratings. In any case, redirecting through 301 is much better. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 106, 95);">-1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td colspan="3" style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 93%;" valign="top" width="93%"> <p><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Content </span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">39<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Unique content<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Having more content (relevant content, which is different from the content on other sites both in wording and topics) is a real boost for your site's rankings. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">40<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Frequency of content change<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Frequent changes are favored. It is great when you constantly add new content but it is not so great when you only make small updates to existing content. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">41<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords font size<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">When a keyword in the document text is in a larger font size in comparison to other on-page text, this makes it more noticeable, so therefore it is more important than the rest of the text. The same applies to headings (<h1>, <h2>, etc.), which generally are in larger font size than the rest of the text. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">42<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Keywords formatting<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Bold and italic are another way to emphasize important words and phrases. However, use bold, italic and larger font sizes within reason because otherwise you might achieve just the opposite effect. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">43<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Age of document <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Recent documents (or at least regularly updated ones) are favored.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">44<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">File size<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Generally long pages are not favored, or at least you can achieve better rankings if you have 3 short rather than 1 long page on a given topic, so split long pages into multiple smaller ones. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">45<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Content separation<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">From a marketing point of view content separation (based on IP, browser type, etc.) might be great but for SEO it is bad because when you have one URL and differing content, search engines get confused what the actual content of the page is. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 46, 35);">-2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">46<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Poor coding and design<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Search engines say that they do not want poorly designed and coded sites, though there are hardly sites that are banned because of messy code or ugly images but when the design and/or coding of a site is poor, the site might not be indexable at all, so in this sense poor code and design can harm you a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 46, 35);">-2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">47<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Illegal Content<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Using other people's copyrighted content without their permission or using content that promotes legal violations can get you kicked out of search engines.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">48<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Invisible text<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This is a black hat SEO practice and when spiders discover that you have text specially for them but not for humans, don't be surprised by the penalty. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">49<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Cloaking<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Cloaking is another illegal technique, which partially involves content separation because spiders see one page (highly-optimized, of course), and everybody else is presented with another version of the same page.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">50<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Doorway pages<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Creating pages that aim to trick spiders that your site is a highly-relevant one when it is not, is another way to get the kick from search engines.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">51<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Duplicate content <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">When you have the same content on several pages on the site, this will not make your site look larger because the <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/duplicate-content-filter-article-1.php">duplicate content</a> penalty kicks in. To a lesser degree duplicate content applies to pages that reside on other sites but obviously these cases are not always banned – i.e. article directories or mirror sites do exist and prosper.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td colspan="3" style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 93%;" valign="top" width="93%"> <p><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Visual Extras and SEO</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">52<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">JavaScript<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">If used wisely, it will not hurt. But if your main content is displayed through JavaScript, this makes it more difficult for spiders to follow and if JavaScript code is a mess and spiders can't follow it, this will definitely hurt your ratings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">0</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">53<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Images in text<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Having a text-only site is so boring but having many images and no text is a SEO sin. Always provide in the <alt> tag a meaningful description of an image but don't stuff it with keywords or irrelevant information.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">0</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">54<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Podcasts and videos <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Podcasts and videos are becoming more and more popular but as with all non-textual goodies, search engines can't read them, so if you don't have the tapescript of the podcast or the video, it is as if the podcast or movie is not there because it will not be indexed by search engines. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">0</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">55<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Images instead of text links<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Using images instead of text links is bad, especially when you don't fill in the <alt> tag. But even if you fill in the <alt> tag, it is not the same as having a bold, underlined, 16-pt. link, so use images for navigation only if this is really vital for the graphic layout of your site.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 106, 95);">-1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">56<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Frames<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Frames are very, very bad for SEO. Avoid using them unless really necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 46, 35);">-2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">57<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Flash<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Spiders don't index the content of Flash movies, so if you use Flash on your site, don't forget to give it an alternative textual description. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 46, 35);">-2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">58<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">A Flash home page <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Fortunately this epidemic disease seems to have come to an end. Having a Flash home page (and sometimes whole sections of your site) and no HTML version, is a SEO suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(226, 8, 0);">-3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td colspan="3" style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 93%;" valign="top" width="93%"> <p><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Domains, URLs, Web Mastery </span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">59<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-rich-domain-suggestions.php">Keyword-rich URLs and filenames</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">A very important factor, especially for Yahoo! and MSN.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">60<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Site Accessibility<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Another fundamental issue, which that is often neglected. If the site (or separate pages) is unaccessible because of broken links, 404 errors, password-protected areas and other similar reasons, then the site simply can't be indexed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(41, 140, 27);">+3</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">61<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Sitemap<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">It is great to have a complete and up-to-date <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/importance-of-sitemaps-article-17.php">sitemap</a>, spiders love it, no matter if it is a plain old HTML sitemap or the special Google sitemap format. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">62<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Site size<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Spiders love large sites, so generally it is the bigger, the better. However, big sites become user-unfriendly and difficult to navigate, so sometimes it makes sense to separate a big site into a couple of smaller ones. On the other hand, there are hardly sites that are penalized because they are 10,000+ pages, so don't split your size in pieces only because it is getting larger and larger.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">63<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Site age<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Similarly to wine, <a href="http://www.webconfs.com/age-of-domain-and-serps-article-6.php">older sites are respected more</a>. The idea is that an old, established site is more trustworthy (they have been around and are here to stay) than a new site that has just poped up and might soon disappear. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">64<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Site theme<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">It is not only keywords in URLs and on page that matter. The site theme is even more important for good ranking because when the site fits into one theme, this boosts the rankings of all its pages that are related to this theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 213, 43);">+2</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">65<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">File Location on Site<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">File location is important and files that are located in the root directory or near it tend to rank better than files that are buried 5 or more levels below. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">66<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Domains versus subdomains, separate domains<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Having a separate domain is better – i.e. instead of having blablabla.blogspot.com, register a separate blablabla.com domain. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(103, 251, 81);">+1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">67<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Top-level domains (TLDs)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Not all TLDs are equal. There are TLDs that are better than others. 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Google will definitely not give you a ranking bonus because of hosting Adsense ads. Adsense might boost your income but this has nothing to do with your search rankings. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">0</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">72<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Adwords will boost your ranking<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Similarly to Adsense, Adwords has nothing to do with your search rankings. Adwords will bring more traffic to your site but this will not affect your rankings in whatsoever way.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">0</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">73<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Hosting downtime<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/web-hosting.php">Hosting downtime</a> is directly related to accessibility because if a site is frequently down, it can't be indexed. But in practice this is a factor only if your hosting provider is really unreliable and has less than 97-98% uptime. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(255, 106, 95);">-1</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 7%;" valign="top" width="7%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">74<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 24%;" valign="top" width="24%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Dynamic URLs <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4.75pt; width: 62%;" valign="top" width="62%"> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Spiders prefer static URLs, though you will see many dynamic pages on top positions. 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