Talk:Search engine optimization/Draft

Other methods
Variety of other methods are employed to get a webpage indexed and shown up in the results. Few methods listed below: ''Should this be related to internal linking and information architecture? I think we should identify black hat methods versus white hat methods.'' Jehochman Talk 04:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Cross linking between pages of the same website. Giving more links to main pages of the website, to increase PageRank used by search engines. Linking from other websites, including link farming and comment spam.

How about relating to controlled vocabulary, stemming and keyword research? Jehochman Talk 04:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keyword rich text in the webpage and key phrases, so as to match all search queries. Adding relevant keywords to a web page meta tags, including keyword stuffing.

''This is debatable. A majority of authorities feel that this is a very minor factor.'' Jehochman Talk 04:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Title and url optimisation for a page. Search engines give more weight to url and title match over page text match.

We need to link to (or create) an article about the link canonical HTML tag. Jehochman Talk 04:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * URL normalization for webpages with multiple urls, using "canonical" meta tag.