Ultimate On-Page SEO Tips (by Webnauts)

[Webnauts]

I did not say not to use them. I always use every possible factor I can. However, the guy you asked to back it up said "not much helpful", which actually goes along with the new data.

William if you read again when and what I wrote about the heading tags, you will see that I did not mention that they are less or very important.

So I did not say anything wrong in the past and my post is still valid, even if Google or I don't know who do not give them so much weight.

And now my question is: What is with Yahoo and MSN?

[williamc]

So I did not say anything wrong in the past and my post is still valid

Never said you did mate, stop getting defensive, I just replied with evidence backing up the other guys post, that you asked for back up on.

Now, What's with Y and M in what regard?

[Webnauts]

Never said you did mate, stop getting defensive, I just replied with evidence backing up the other guys post, that you asked for back up on.

I know man. I was replying indirectly to the other guys post too.

Now, What's with Y and M in what regard?

Do heading tags have value for Y and M? If yes, less or much?

[CaliBabe]

Is there a restriction as to how many h2 tags can we have on a single webpage.

[Webnauts]

Is there a restriction as to how many h2 tags can we have on a single webpage.

There are some rumors that Hx (heading tags) do not have the same high ranking factor weight as it used to. So, when implementing such tags, do that for users and forget the search engines. Doing so, I can assure you that you will have the appropriate number of heading tags needed for users and search engines.

[m.furqan.latif]

As always, right on.

My only suggestion is to maybe give some examples of what constitutes what. How should the keywords appear, commas between the words of course, but do I need spaces? "Body, Jewelry, non piercing" or "body,jewelry,non piercing,rings" for example, or does it really matter? Do the spaces count against the total number of characters?

Great as usual from a leader in the industry.

Best always,

[Webnauts]

As always, right on.

My only suggestion is to maybe give some examples of what constitutes what. How should the keywords appear, commas between the words of course, but do I need spaces? "Body, Jewelry, non piercing" or "body,jewelry,non piercing,rings" for example, or does it really matter? Do the spaces count against the total number of characters?

Great as usual from a leader in the industry.

Best always,

I would suggest to write your keywords with commas and no spaces, like i.e:

seo,web design, search engine optimization,ecommerce

[Terry Van Horne]

There are some rumors that Hx (heading tags) do not have the same high ranking factor weight as it used to.

Sorry until I see the data that "test" (using test in loosest sense of the word) is based on I say it's hogwash. The test was likely more research of covenience which often comes from that corner of the net. They also just tested if things ranked better with or without <H1>. It should include semantic relationship between Document structure and title and other HTML elements. IMO, that test is hardly a reason to change something I've believed is important since my first attempts at determing factors back in 96/7. You can't prove if it helps with a test because there are so many factors everything is pretty hard to prove definitively especially if it is interplay between html elements.

I won't say it is so important it must be there just... there are a finite number of elements ( my last count was 28 ) that can legitimately be "optimized" so any element that's a possibility should be optimized. Isn't that what we are supposed to do? Why figure out exactly what to optimize... do em all and don't sweat whether you've missed an opportunity. IMO, it can't hurt so.... who the F cares if it's a magic bullet? there are none of those either or someone would have found it by now!

[Webnauts]

Terry I fully agree with you. And I am sure you know me so far to tell that even if the SE will not give them any value at all, I will still use them.

[Terry Van Horne]

Note on the keywords tag... by the HTML spec it can only contain... if memory serves me... 1024 chars. I've believed Google still indexes keywords just not for ranking... big ole red flag...
if too big, too many repeats (it was 3 repeats of any word back in the day). You also don't want the repeated words too close together. Should alsoi note that on Mike Grehan's newsletter he did an interview with a Yahoo! engineer who said they use it, especially for slang, alternate meanings possibly mispellings, multiple spellings etc. That I've tested and it does look to be true but... nothing is written in stone.