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Ok, I'm starting a new web site and my goal is to have at least 100 pages by the end of the year but have a few questions.
Can you tell me about meta key words and how to use them correctly? Do I need to worry about these only on my home page or does every linked page need their own? What about a description on each page? Does this really matter?
Also, links! Sure, I will link each page to each other but what is the best way to do this? I know to always link my home page with other pages but that's about all I know.
Is my goal to have Google spider ALL my pages through links and meta key words or does Google only look for your meta key words on your main page or home page?
All my future pages (at least 100) will be related, this is no problem. They problem for me is HOW to link them in order for my site to be very successful as far as traffic is concerned.
Thanks a bunch,
Scott
i'd avoid linking all pages to each other at all costs.
think about the way page rank flows through the pages of a site, try and focus the page rank on the more important pages.
title tags on each page are very important, use each page's keywords in the title, but also be aware that as far as linking goes: the recieving page gets some credit for the title of the giving page as well as the link text (make use of this fact to your great benifit ignore it to your detriment)
use meta keyword and description tags appropriate to the page, i would use a description that reads well as i think this is of more benefit to you than the algo bonus from keyword stuffing it. i have found keywords tag to be of little help.
>>Also, links! Sure, I will link each page to each other but what is the best way to do this? I know to always link my home page with other pages but that's about all I know.
>>Is my goal to have Google spider ALL my pages through links and meta key words or does Google only look for your meta key words on your main page or home page?
Hi Herrmann22. Meta keywords are merely the keywords that you would expect to find in the body text of your page. If you view the source of your page, go right to the top and there are all the metas. Eg. If your term that you optimise for is blue widgets then in your meta name="keywords" would be stuff on the page related and including blue widget with blue widget being the first keyword written down.
If you have a page that is important and you want it found in the serps then optimise it and put in your keywords. Although I have read that google is throwing less relevance to meta's.
Again with description, if a page is impotant enough and you have optimised it to do well in the serps then give it a description.
About linking. I wouldn't link my homepage to all my pages. As topr8 suggests, make subcategories. Say Widgets is what you sell. Then you could have pages for all the different widgets. Widget A, widget B, widget C. Homepage will link to them and then they will link to other pages that have relevance to them and so on until there is a type of pyramid.
Finally I think googlebot finds all your pages by traveling through links but I am not to sure when it comes to spiders. Hope that helps;-)
