What can I do to my website to make the seo better?

**goheadtry** · 08-09-2007, 05:46 PM

What can I do
a question about SEO by J Forbush

My site is http://www.technologyforever.com and I am wondering what I can do to get a better SEO score? Could some one take a look at my website and give me some suggestions please and possibly some scripts in PHP that will help improve my seo.

-THANKS

J Forbush

**JamieLewis** · 08-09-2007, 05:53 PM

Convert it to XHTML, Use Semantic Tagging.

Jamie

**goheadtry** · 08:56 PM

How does that help?
Also how do I set Semantic Tagging in Dreamweaver CS3
ALL I SEE IS transitional strict it is not in there

**highanddry** · 08:43 PM

It makes it easier for spiders to search I think, as well cross browser compatability to some extent. Semantic tagging is search engine respected
NOW GIVE ME TALKUPATION

haha

**ForrestCroce** · 08-10-2007, 01:53 AM

Non semantic markup:

Code:

this is really stupid<br />
but I work with someone who just can't<br />
be bothered to use understandable markup.<br />

"Semantic" markup:

Code:

<p>All of this text is one "value" no matter
how many lines it spans.  In the above example
you might have a bunch of text inside a span or
table cells, whereas this denotes a paragraph.</p>
<p>It's better because:</p>
<ul>
<li>Machines can make better use of it</li>
<li>The document's structure explains the data's meaning</li>
<li>The code is better / cleaner</li>
</ul>

**Learning Newbie** · 08-10-2007, 05:30 PM

Semantic markup is kind of like military intelligence, but at heart it's about using the right tags so people who what the heck the text between them is all about.

**goheadtry** · 08-11-2007, 11:49 PM

Can't people lie though? By just putting eBay or something in there text in a search engine and is such cheating allowed?

**ForrestCroce** · 08-12-2007, 12:35 AM

You just did put eBay in the text ... the whole idea of semantic markup is that the tags you use to put your document together should have something to do with what each piece of your document is.

For example, wrapping each paragraph in p tags instead of using line breaks. Or using list items instead of a table with text in rows and only one column.

You could lie in your content, but that's a different issue than how it's marked up.

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-12-2007, 10:34 AM

The biggest problem with your "SEO Score", as you put it, is what Jamie touched on (although he nailed a symptom, not the bigger problem): you forgot who looks at your site (the users).

What makes your site unique? What makes it user-friendly? Why should we go to your Flash gaming site as opposed to the other 600 billion Flash gaming sites out there? Semantic code will give you a step in the right direction...the other part is consistent layout, clean site navigation, usability, things like that. You solve those issues, you'll solve 75-80% of your SEO issues.

**goheadtry** · 08-12-2007, 02:05 PM

Okay so how could this be rewritten

Code:

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<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="test.css" />
<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="http://technologyforever.com/favicon.ico">
<meta name="description" content="Online Forum and Great Games why not visit TechnologyForever.com today?">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="games, kids games, fun games, play free games, web game, java game, arcade game, arcade, arcades, flash, flash java, online, play online, free, free strategy, playable, kids, teens, technologyforever.com">
<title>Games + Forum = FUN on TechnologyForever.com ( Games + Forum + Blog )</title>
<meta name="verify-v1" content="0MIoWbBzMG3P5TseRyUmOM7o3J5LL9Njf3HyRiMXpVw=" />
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    <td colspan="12" background="images/bk.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div align="left"><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/"><img src="images/logo.gif" alt="GAMES GAMES FORUM FUN GAMES FORUM FUN" 
	 width="357" height="95" border="0" /></a></div></td>
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    <td width="112" background="images/tile_back.gif"><div align="center" class="style1 style5"><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/" class="nav">Blog</a></div></td>
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    <td width="112" background="images/tile_back.gif"><div align="center" class="style1 style5"><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/game1.html" class="nav">Games</a></div></td>
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          <p class="style14">JUST A FEW </p>
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        <td width="26%"><div align="center" class="style5">
          <p class="style14">JUST A FEW </p>
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        <td width="52%" class="style8"><div align="center" class="style6 style13">JUST A FEW</div></td>
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        <td width="22%" class="style12 style6"><h3 align="center"><strong>Technology Forever </strong></h3>
          <h1 align="center" class="style2 style1"><strong>Games</strong></h1></td>
        <td width="26%" class="style12 style6"><h3 align="center"><strong>Technology Forever</strong></h3>  
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          <h1>1.          <a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/articles/2007/03/16/html-tutorial-for-beginners" class="style5">HTML Tutorial For Beginners<span class="style13">(HTML)</span></a></h1>
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        <td width="52%" class="style1"><div align="center">
          <h1>2.          <a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/articles/2007/03/10/getting-the-www-in-your-website" class="style5">Getting the www in your website<span class="style13">(.htaccess)</span></a></h1>
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        <td width="52%" class="style1"><div align="center">
          <h1>3.          <a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/articles/2007/02/18/templating-with-php" class="style5">Templating with PHP <span class="style13">(PHP) </span></a></h1>
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        <td width="22%" class="style1"><center><a target="new" href="http://www.technologyforever.com/g9.php"><img src="http://www.technologyforever.com/pic/digininjarpg1.gif" alt="Technology Forever Digital Ninja RPG 1 game" width="100" height="80" border="0" /></a><p>Digital Ninja RPG 1</p><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/g9.php">play game</a></p>
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        <td width="26%" rowspan="2" class="style1"><div align="center">
          <a target="new" href="http://www.technologyforever.com/forums/forum-17.html"><img src="http://www.technologyforever.com/pic/ps3-f.gif" alt="Technology Forever PS3 game reviews forum" width="100" height="80" border="0" /></a><p></p><p></p><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/forums/forum-17.html">PS3 Game Reviews</a></p>
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        <td width="52%" class="style1"><div align="center">
          <h1>4.          <span class="style5"><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/articles/2007/05/25/how-to-downloading-videos-from-youtube-com-on-to-your-computer">How to downloading videos from youtube.com on to your computer</a></span><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/articles/2007/05/25/how-to-downloading-videos-from-youtube-com-on-to-your-computer"><span class="style13">(Video Tricks and Tips) </span></a></h1>
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        <td width="22%" class="style1"><center><a target="new" href="http://www.technologyforever.com/g16.php"><img src="http://www.technologyforever.com/pic/astroid.gif" alt="Technology Forever Asteroids game" width="100" height="80" border="0" /></a><p>Asteroids</p><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/g16.php">play game</a></p></center></td>
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        <td width="52%" class="style1"><div align="center">
          <h1>5.          <span class="style5"><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/articles/2007/03/19/youtube-in-windows-media-player">YouTube in windows media player</a></span><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/blogtf/articles/2007/03/19/youtube-in-windows-media-player"><span class="style13">(Video Tricks and Tips) </span></a></h1>
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        <td width="22%" class="style1"><center><a target="new" href="http://www.technologyforever.com/g18.php"><img src="http://www.technologyforever.com/pic/hex18.gif" alt="Technology Forever Hexxagon game" width="100" height="80" border="0" /></a><p>Hexxagon</p><a href="http://www.technologyforever.com/g18.php">play game</a></p>
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**JamieLewis** · 08-12-2007, 03:13 PM

Some copy in there would be nice, descriptions of each link. At the moment your website is just a lot of links with no description, welcome text or explanation!

Think about when a visitor comes comes to your site without any prior knowledge, why should they stay? what is there for them to do? You should spell it out for them clearly and precisely.

Also get rid of the table based layout, have a google for some articles on semantic markup and you should have a site that explains itself not only to visitors but to search engines as well.

Jamie

**ForrestCroce** · 08-12-2007, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamieLewis

Also get rid of the table based layout, have a google for some articles on semantic markup and you should have a site that explains itself not only to visitors but to search engines as well.

I was going to suggest the same thing. That will either have a minimum effect, or none at all, on SEO, but it's easier to manage in the future, less complicated, less bandwidth, and makes the pages load faster.

**goheadtry** · 08-12-2007, 03:46 PM

Yes I understand it needs description but I do not know the proper syntax for doing such if some one could show me in my code and just put example that would be great.