Comments on: The 5 Best SEO Tips You Keep Ignoring

By: Rob @ linkvana review

Rob @ linkvana review — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:18:15 +0000

Recently I have struggled a little bit with SEO and sometimes you could lose your focus and you do not know what to do next but going through these tips has really helped me refocus my mind on exactly what I need to do to rank better in the search engines really appreciate you taking the time to write these tips down as there are a good place for anybody looking to do well in the search engines. I have been doing SEO on my sites from while now and had varied access but it is always good to have some sort of plan or strategy and I think these tips help provide that so keep up the good work.

By: Martin - SEO Graz

Martin - SEO Graz — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:59:31 +0000

Hi David,

Setting up a new blog about three month ago, i focused on SEO for images. I did everything you wrote about ALT and TITLE tags , and some mor with the text before and after the images.

now about 20 – 25% of my traffic is from google images search. most of these people also read other articles on the blog.

image seo is worth it!

Martin – SEO Graz

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:45:30 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but doesn’t wordpress asks you for your canonical address during install so you avoid the duplicate penalty, and it automatically redirects. As for images, I make it a point to shrink them down to size using a no-fuss image program like irfanview.

By: David Gould

David Gould — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:48:16 +0000

Thanks Donnie! I definitely agree on the meta data. Well-formed keywords and descriptions should still be a part of any website for the reasons you note, but hopefully people learn not fixate on them to the exclusion of other SEO improvements.

By: donnie

donnie — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:31:38 +0000

David, not only is your SEO advice sound, but you write really well and engaging. I would offer that while meta isn’t that important for SERPs, I would still be mindful of how the meta description is crafted for two reasons: 1) the description can be a “call to action” in the SERPs and 2) pages with unique descriptions tend to perform better in SERPs.