One of the websites I developed has a reasonably strong presence on Google News. However, many, if not most, of the links Google has are titled "Add New Comment". I wondered why, and came to the conclusion that google is reading the "links" tags that contain that link as containing the permalink.
So I have changed that class tag to "action". While I was at it, I also changed the title tags to h1.
I will watch over the coming week how Google News reads the content with these changes, and report my results here. But I think that SEO is something that is worthwhile for consideration as an ongoing theme development topic.
Already Drupal sites do quite well. On regular Google search, sites seem rather well optimized. But these anamolies, such as with Google News, point to areas where we might look to improve.
Does anyone else have thoughts or experiences on SEO, and how we all might modify existing themes and alter approaches to future themes?
Laura
Op dinsdag 13 december 2005 17:29, schreef Laura Scott:
So I have changed that class tag to "action". While I was at it, I also changed the title tags to h1.
the best semantic is: h1: your sites title h2: the content title h3: any subtitles
so, on /node/123 h1: flowers and beads h2: how to make hippie dresses h3: get stuff h3: put stuff together
but on /node or taxonomy/term/12 h1: flowers and beads h2: content OR h2: articles about rope h3: how to make hippie dresses h3: how to make hippie hats
And you should best make sure that even on /node/123 the h2 title is the link.
Ber
Fair points. Something I did not look at for this site, as it has no text-based site title on screen aside from the metatag.
But the "links" tag for comments/trackbacks/ etc. is mis-named, methinks.
Laura
Bèr Kessels wrote:
Op dinsdag 13 december 2005 17:29, schreef Laura Scott:
So I have changed that class tag to "action". While I was at it, I also changed the title tags to h1.
the best semantic is: h1: your sites title h2: the content title h3: any subtitles
so, on /node/123 h1: flowers and beads h2: how to make hippie dresses h3: get stuff h3: put stuff together
but on /node or taxonomy/term/12 h1: flowers and beads h2: content OR h2: articles about rope h3: how to make hippie dresses h3: how to make hippie hats
And you should best make sure that even on /node/123 the h2 title is the link.
Ber
Ber, I think semantic tags for Drupal themes is going to be a hot trend. Are you able to turn this list into a handbook page? Let me know if you need help.
Kieran On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Bèr Kessels wrote:
Op dinsdag 13 december 2005 17:29, schreef Laura Scott:
So I have changed that class tag to "action". While I was at it, I also changed the title tags to h1.
the best semantic is: h1: your sites title h2: the content title h3: any subtitles
so, on /node/123 h1: flowers and beads h2: how to make hippie dresses h3: get stuff h3: put stuff together
but on /node or taxonomy/term/12 h1: flowers and beads h2: content OR h2: articles about rope h3: how to make hippie dresses h3: how to make hippie hats
And you should best make sure that even on /node/123 the h2 title is the link.
Ber
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I made a stub here : http://drupal.org/node/44072
Op dinsdag 10 januari 2006 05:45, schreef Kieran Lal:
Ber, I think semantic tags for Drupal themes is going to be a hot trend. Are you able to turn this list into a handbook page? Let me know if you need help.
Trae and Chris could you review: http://drupal.org/node/44072
Cheers, Kieran
On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:43 AM, Bèr Kessels wrote:
I made a stub here : http://drupal.org/node/44072
Op dinsdag 10 januari 2006 05:45, schreef Kieran Lal:
Ber, I think semantic tags for Drupal themes is going to be a hot trend. Are you able to turn this list into a handbook page? Let me know if you need help.
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On 1/10/06, Kieran Lal kieran@civicspacelabs.org wrote:
Trae and Chris could you review: http://drupal.org/node/44072
That's not a bad start, but that only deals with semantic headers :-)
I would make sure that guide mentions the following:
- menus: 99 to 1, your menu should be a list of links, styled appropriately, not a bunch of <div> or | or etc, just a simple <ul>
- breadcrumbs: same thing, they should be a <ul> with appropriate styles
- content: content is content, it is <p> there is almost need to wrap these in endless <div> or <span> just to give them cool colors, just style the <p> directly in most cases, sometimes extra markup is needed but generally i see *too* much markup
- definition lists: probably don't use them when you really should (think image galleries) : http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/
- style external links: http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/external/
and probably lots of other things that can be mentioned about semantic markup, some more useful articles here: http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/
as i don't have time to write anything up in detail (my schedule at the moment is far too packed) these useful notes should be made. whomever updates it, i'm more than willing to edit and critique just don't have the time to write it up initially.
ted
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