SES Chicago 2006

[mike]

Next week we'll be hitting the road again for the Search Engine Strategies in Chicago.

We have been getting a lot of great feedback from our video coverage of PubCon this month and we hope to keep the videos rolling for SES as well.

With that in mind, I wanted to open up a thread to see what kinds of questions people might like to see asked.

As you all know (or should) you can't even turn around without running into an SEO/SEM guru, expert or enthusiast at SES shows -and Chicago figures to be no exception. As such, I'm expecting a target rich environment for the camera.

It's going to be an incredible collection of search engine brain power. If a comet were to strike the building during the show, it's unlikely that anybody would be able to find anything on the internet again for at least 5 years.

I can't name off all of the folks who will be speaking/attending, but you can check out their agenda links and see for yourself.

If you have any burning questions or mind boggling concepts you'd like to see put to the crowd at SES, now's the time to let me know.

You can reply to this thread, send me a private message, or zap me an email (mike@webpronews.com).

[Webnauts]

Why is the Code to Text Ratio Important for SEO?

The code to text ratio of a page is used by search engines and spiders to calculate the relevancy of a web page. A higher code to text ratio gives you a better chance of getting a good page ranking for your page.

Maybe not all search engines are using the code to text ratio in their index algorithm, but most of them do. So having a higher code to text ratio than your competitors gives you a good start for on-site optimization.

Do search engines read the whole amount of a page? If yes, if pages are filled with excessive HTML code, will they see all the text content?

Some resources for further reading:
1. http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-En...ion-and-CSS/5/
2. http://alistapart.com/articles/seo
3. http://www.dot-seo.com/seo-tools/web...content-ratio/

Another on-topic discussion at WPW: http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=65403

I would love to know what they think!

Thanks a lot Mike in advance.

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by Webnauts

Why is the Code to Text Ratio Important for SEO?

Has any SE said it was?

[incrediblehelp]

1. When can we see the awesome backend stats/info from MSN, Yahoo and Google on sitemaps.org? Sure we can see great stuff in G Webmaster Control Panel still, but I was hoping since we now have a universal sitemap protocol that we would soon have a universal login area we all can see the same benefits that we currently enjoy in G Webmaster Control Panel.

2. Hey Google I thought you warned us that Google Base would be seen in the SERPs around the holidays. Is this still going to happen?



3. OK we all know social marketing is important. It leads to traffic and possible links to your website, which then lead to many benefits from multiple aspects of online marketing. SE's do you plan to enter the social marketing arena anytime soon? Do you agree with social marketing as way fro website owners to help promote themselves?

4. SE's can you please verify to everyone once and for all that "filter" duplicate content and don't view it as a penalty on websites?

5. Not really SEM related but if you see anyone from Mozilla/FireFox around let them know that I am tired of FF sucking my CPU usage up. Whether it is Google toolbar memory leak, flash plug-ins on websites, I don't care, fix the stupid thing and send everyone an update.

I am sure I have others, but those are off the top of my head.

[mike]

ok

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

Has any SE said it was?

No, but they do: http://www.se-optimizer.com/developers.html

And by the way, for what is the tool "Code to Text Ratio" useful, since it may be found at SEOChat, RankQuest and many other places?

[mike]

The existence of the remedy does not, with necessity, substantiate the existence of the disease.

I can dedicate a section of the forum to unicorns, that doesn't mean there are any.

I'll definitely try to get some Google/Yahoo types to say something about text:code.

[Webnauts]

Thanks a lot Mike. I see lately in other forums too, that it is a hot topic.

I update temporally our SEO Analysis Tool results report, until this issue is clarified.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by mike

I can dedicate a section of the forum to unicorns, that doesn't mean there are any.

You all might remember that I was starting threads or posting in threads that invalid or bad markup is important for, and I got a lot of stress.

Looking around in other forums, that is a top topic.

Side note: I am optimizing a site that have been recently penalized by Google, and when I fixed the problem it got its rankings back couple days later.

The only problem was, that the title tag looked like that: <title=Hotel What Ever></title>

[AussieWebmaster]

Originally Posted by Webnauts

No, but they do: http://www.se-optimizer.com/developers.html

And by the way, for what is the tool "Code to Text Ratio" useful, since it may be found at SEOChat, RankQuest and many other places?

I thought more text less code.... thus external js files etc.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by AussieWebmaster

I thought more text less code.... thus external js files etc.

Good point!