On-Page SEO is the process of placing your selected keywords in the right places on your web pages. This involves changing page titles, headings, content and URLs to improve search engine rankings.
Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page, most often to help search engines categorize them correctly. Learn more about meta tags and why they are important.
| Page Title: | www.pressherald.com | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram |
| Meta Description: | Features news from the Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. Serves southern Maine from Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Falmouth to Lewiston-Auburn. |
| Meta Keywords: | news Press Herald Maine Sunday Telegram Portland Cape Elizabeth Gorham Falmouth Lewiston Auburn sports local classified jobs autos today opinion coverage obituaries |
Similar to how newspapers and magazines use headings and sub-headings to help readers, websites can use special tags in their HTML. These tags not only help human readers read the content, they also help search engine spiders better understand the content on a page and what is most important. It is generally a good idea to use heading tags to help signal to the search engines, what the web page is about.
Images are a great way to enhance a website from a user's perspective. However, it is important to note that search engine crawlers cannot really "see" images. So, if you have lots of images that contain textual content within the image itself, this content will not be seen by the crawlers.
HTML helps address this issue by providing a way to specify the textual content for an image using the "alt" attribute. The alt attribute allows web pages to assign specific text as the "alternative" content for images for those that cannot view the images themselves. This can be search engine crawlers or text-only web browsers.
Keyword density is not the focus as it has a key part of the search engine algorythms for a while, however can provide a reference point for the overall context the page replayes to both visitors and spiders.
Off-Page SEO includes all the things you do to promote your website outside the design of the website itself. Getting more inbound links to your site, registering with directories relevant to your industry, and getting more pages into the search engine indexes are all parts of Off-Page SEO.
"Google PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves important weigh more heavily and help to make other pages important." - From Google
This number is the approximate number of pages on http://www.pressherald.com that have been stored in the Google index. The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content for its index. Generally, the more pages your site has within the Google cache, the better.
| Google: | 5,150 |
| Yahoo: | 26,781 |
One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites link to it. The more links the better. Having links to your website from authoritative resources on the Internet helps you rank higher in search engines since these links are an indication that your website is trustworthy and contains good content.
| Google: | 794 |
| Yahoo: | 1,634 |
Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. In general, you want Google to crawl your site as often as possible, so your new content shows up in Google search results immediately.
Alexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings.
Your website has an Alexa rank of 0 which is in the top 0.00 % of all websites.
http://www.pressherald.com is not listed in DMOZ.
DMOZ, The Open Directory Project, is the largest and most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
http://www.pressherald.com is listed in the Yahoo! Directory.
The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory which rivals the DMOZ Open Directory Project in size. We recommend that every business have a listing in the Yahoo! Directory.
Making sure that your company has an extensive web presence outside of your own website is important. It increases the chances that your prospects will find your company when they are online since there are more web pages that contain information about your company.
Google is the 800lb gorilla when it come to search and their role in filtering news and events is equally sunstantial. Google News updates via submission of feeds through Google Webmaster Tools, inclusion of a news sitemap in your robots.txt, or discovery.
Although Yahoo takes second place to Google in search their news page -- and more sepcifically their local news page -- is a critical factor in visibility for news sites. Inclusion is through Yahoo Site Explorer, a news sitemap in your robots.txt, or discovery.
Technorati is the leading blog search engine indexing more than 1.5M new blog posts in real time and introducing millions of readers to blog and social media content.
del.icio.us is a web-based bookmarking site. Delicious users save their bookmarks on the website so they can access them from any browser. A website that has many users bookmarking it is generally popular and will get more traffic.
Digg is a social media site where anyone can submit articles, and viewers can vote for articles they like. Very popular articles can make it to the front page of Digg, resulting in more traffic to your website.
The website http://www.pressherald.com has 2 articles submitted to digg.com. 0 of these articles made it to the front page of digg.com.