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top 5 SEO myths and tactics truth be told from the bendigo web design specialists

Top 5 SEO Myths V’s truths do you know the difference?

Jul 4th

Posted by codeGuru in General SEO

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SEO myths busted

There is many myths and gossip around the web today we all know that, just check your spam folder for an example. I have also noticed talking with website members, feedback and other close associates that there is still lots of myth around what people perceive to be the truth about on-page seo tactics.

To help clear things up a little we have compiled a 5 top myths and truths about seo list below, we at Digitalkreations always go from what we know to be fact, when it comes to design, development of standards then the facts are all that counts. Getting these facts means only using, practicing what we have “from the horses mouth” or books, blogs of specialists, guys like Mr Google (Matt Cutts)…. not just someone claiming to be a specialist.

SEO Myth #1: Your Web-page Title Tag can be any amount of characters in length?

Truth #1: The maximum number of characters recommended for this Tag is actually 60 characters, using the specified length will ensure your web-page has maximum search engine visibility. If you are not on the first page of search results, over 60% of Internet users will not find you!

SEO Myth #2: You don’t need to use Meta Description on your web-pages anymore?

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Why Does my website rank well in One Search Engine, but Not in Another?

Jun 30th

Posted by codeGuru in General SEO

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Why Would You Rank well in One engine, but Not in Another? SEO Ninja pages

Most small business owners get frustrated that their site either ranks highly in Bing, yet poorly in Yahoo, Alexa, Bing, Google or vice verse. There has been many times i’ve optimized for a particular search engine and noticed dramatic drops on another? WTF!! It’s mind numbing really, So to save you the time and Hair loss here are some of the most common known reasons why this may be happening to your website and more importantly an overview of some workarounds i use that i’ve picked up over the years to tackle the problems if so.

  1. The Amount of text on a page, Bing places a lot of importance on page content, so if your pages have more than 350 words then you’ll have a better ranking on Bing.  Hence the problem, in Google it doesn’t seem to be of importance the amount of text on your pages. So you need to optimize each and every single page individually, yes its a tiring job to meet all the different engines score requirements.
  2. Natural Language, Bing places a hell of a lot of importance on content relevancy, so if your More >
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How to Make IE8 render like IE7 automatically

Jun 17th

Posted by codeGuru in Web Development

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Web browser standards and IE8 rendering:

As you probably know, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 has been released and is giving many web developers and companies with great websites viewing issues, sent sites developed for older standards basically to HELL!!

In what way i hear you asking?? well the list is an endless list, a little like that we saw when IE6 was around. Pages display totally different than which they did in IE7, yes there is a compatibility button that makes these pages show as they did with IE7 and its been one of the best features a user has in the IE8 browser. So what we have below will be a god sent to many website owners, developers, there is a META tag that you can add to and web page that makes it show as it would in IE7 without any user interactions at all.

Whats the difference? actually nothing at all, BUT what if many web users coming to your site don’t fully know how to click the compatibility button? What if they just hit the back button instead because your site looks like crap to them? Thats right, many, actually more than just many….. literally thousands of web users don’t know More >

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