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Title Tags for Images and SEO: Does It Matter?
Question: Are image titles as important as the alt within the HTML code for the image? Answer: the TITLE tag for an image (NOT to be confused with the TITLE tag of a page!) is generally thought to be ignored by Google. One of the reasons I refer people to the Google SEO Starter Guide is that it re-inforces the... Read more »
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Personalized Search and SEO: Of Cookies & IP Addresses
Q. I was just wondering, since we clear out our cookies and history before searching in order to stop Google from presenting us with information tailored to our history of searches in order to get an accurate search result, how can we factor in the cookies and history that the general public is not clearing out when they search? Is... Read more »
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Different Title Tags on Each Page for SEO: A Must
Q: is it important to have different title tags for each page? Answer. As we learned in class today the title tag is the most important page tags for SEO. First and foremost, you must put your target keyword into the title tag of your homepage. Second, as we learned in the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, you must... Read more »
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What is the A HREF (Links / Anchor) Tag and Usage in SEO?
Q: And what is the AHREF? Answer. As the Google search engine starter guide explains, you want to embed your keywords in the anchor tags. The anchor tag is also called the a href tag and what it does is allow for a clickable link from one webpage to another webpage, or from one website to another website. So the... Read more »
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META DESCRIPTION Character Limit is 155 (Explained)
Q: how long should meta descriptions be? is there a character limit? Answer. As we learned in class today, the META DESCRIPTION tag is a suggestion to Google as to what your summary should be on a Google search results. The character limit is 155 characters. Use one of the tools that we discussed such as Letter Count and pop... Read more »
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What is the ALT IMAGE tag and Search Engine Optimization Usage?
Q: How do I enter alt tags? Do I enter it manually on the source page? Answer. The alt attribute of image tags is one of the most important page tags for effective SEO. As we learned in class today be sure to in embed a keyword into your various tags, including the alt attribute of the image tag. Now,... Read more »
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Title Tags for SEO: Complete Sentences and Pizzazz
Q: Does the title tag have to be a complete sentence that also appears as is on the website? Or is it meant to be a mix of keywords? Q: When we tag our pages, should we treat each page on the site as a title page? Should we create a title tag for each page? Answer. As we learned... Read more »
