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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:32:56 +0000

Keep a watch out for next week’s article, it’s a good one (yes, much better than this one, sorry if you didn’t think this article was up to par)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:32:06 +0000

I fail to see why that makes it a “bad move.” But thank you for your contribution.

By: Michael Visser

Michael Visser — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:26:20 +0000

This is a bad move, here’s the verdict from Google Webmasters Help:

“I’m reasonably certain that the SEO benefit, if any, is very small.
Time is better spent elsewhere.” - Phil Payne

“It won’t help more than good site navigation or a sitemap page on the
site would. If the spider can find a page from the site navigation
and/or a sitemap, it doesn’t need multiple links within the site.” cass-hacks

“Reminds me of Daron’s spider trap 1999-2001 or so … didn’t turn out
to be effective considering thousands of sites disappearing from the
SERPs once Matt spotted the technique. Illumini, that’s not really
comparable but the intent is equal. Don’t trick the engines, optimize
for users. There is no such thing as a working SEO shortcut discussed
anywhere on the net.” - Sebastian

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:10:50 +0000

Sonambulist: “most good coders.” So how did those coders get to be “good coders”? Reading, trying, and learning. That’s the point of these articles. To help teach others how to be better at coding and learning how to do SEO better.

You may be a “good coder” already, but that’s not everyone else.

By: Sonambulist

Sonambulist — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:49:15 +0000

Have you missed the point? Both of these are nothing more than source ordered as most good coders would do without a thought.

More SEO snake oil and spanish fly!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:49:02 +0000

Patung: The second example has yet to be cleaned up further, but web crawlers (robots) don’t look at the < head > information at all really, it’s what is in the < body > tags.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:41:56 +0000

Eh, I’ve been focusing on the body lately. For instance, on my site each article and page title gets the H1, and the site name moves to the sidebar and assumes an H3 (H2 is the sub-title, and there are sometimes H3’s in the article/page content). Thinking out loud here, I could make the site name an H2 with subsequent headers in the sidebar being H3’s. Grey area, this header thing.

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By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:42:15 +0000

im lost….im so n00b and that was way to short…:(

By: patung

patung — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:51:57 +0000

The second example is appalling, so much useless junk, - css, links to js and multiple css files, javascript, pingback, content=”noarchive, google-analytics, etc. Hideous.

By: Michael Visser

Michael Visser — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:53:34 +0000

I’m very skeptical about generating traffic by placing links within the header of a document. Seems counter-intuitive as SE’s can read pages fine without being spammed further.

I’ve created an open Google Webmasters thread discussing this approach:
http://groups.google.com/group.....890e21dc28

Feel free to join in and comment.