All You Need To Know – The SEO Cheat Sheet
Recently published by seomoz.org is the web designers SEO cheat sheet. It brings together SEOmoz’s Danny Dover’s experience and knowledge of 9 months into one easy place, and helps others to equally tick all the boxes required to optimize a web site for better rank in Google and other search engines.
The cheat sheet is easy to read, well designed and when printed on A4 paper easily put on view next to your computer or in the company restroom for loo-time education trips!
What SEO Tips It Covers
Broad areas covered by the 2-sided cheat sheet for search engine optimizers are:
- Important <html></html> tags
- Search engine indexing limits
- Recommended page <title>…</title> syntax
- A list of common cannonical issues for URLs
- 301 redirect rules and code
- Important search engine robot identification tags
- Common robot traps to avoid
- Robot <meta> tag syntax
- robots.txt syntax
- Sitemap syntax
What SEO Tips It Doesn’t Cover
As pointed out by many of the people posting comments to the respective cheat sheet blog entry, there are some obvious holes in his basic list of SEO requirements for a web site, including the lack of any TITLE parameter in the link anchors, or the fact that he doesn’t highlight potential keyword hits in the URL, at leats not clearly. That being said, the cheat sheet is a great tool and reminder for any SEO-novice, or SEO-expert alike, covering the basic requirements of creating a well crafted and useful web site.
As with most of the available SEO-related content on line the options and requirements highlighted on the cheat sheet are the bread and butter of SEO, the basic must-haves regarding making sure the search engines like, and trust your web site as a soruce of good information. The cheat sheet, however, doesn’t develop notions of viral marketing , backlinks, and inter-related content. Nor does it cover other areas in terms of the design of yoru site, repeat content and how to tell robots and spiders what to index and what not to index within a page.
Conclusion: Download It!
Anyhow, I do certainly reocmmend downloading the cheet sheat and having it by yoru side when thinking about developing and optimizing your own or your client’s web site.
To find and download the cheat sheet, visit the SEOmoz cheat sheet weblog entry.
