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1. A tags - stuffing them
I know that according to good CSS having div tags inside a tags is a big no no.
But you can have span tags, so I construct my specific a tag like this:
<a href="mypage.html">
<span class="title">Brand new article</span>
<span class="image" style="background-image:ur(myimage.jpg)"></span>
<span class="description">very interesting read</span>
</a>
I proceed by giving display:block and floats to span tags in my CSS file and you can imagine how it looks, pretty nice :)
So I end up with this "box" that is one big link. Looks nice, navigates nice.
But what about SEO?
Will Google be mad at me for adding all that code inside a tag?
2. A tags - titles
- Should I add "title" attribute to all my a tags? Even if I have something as in question 1?
3. Mighty Ajax
- I use it in many places. I don't overdo it, but I still love it:)
- I presume Google does NOT see what Ajax stuff I import to page right? No, I'm ok with that:)
You see, I had an idea to also use Ajax to improve how my page looks like from the SEO point of view.
For example I have a small gallery on my front page where you can click on the buttons below (1 to 10) to change the image.
The "Buttons bar" is simple, but it's a bunch of ugly code. So I decided to add that bar via Ajax when page loads.
My guess is that Google won't see it then ? (which I want)
4. What EXACTLY does Google see?
- follow up to my previous question.
- Does Google see exactly what I see when I choose "view page source"?
5. Can Google find this?
say I have this at the top of my page:
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['username']) AND ($_SESSION['username']=="justme")) {
echo "meaning of life is... coding !";
}else{
echo "meaning of life? Dunno, Google it";
}
Can Google's robot find out what is the "meaning of life"? Even if I explicitly state that only a user "justme" can have that bit echoed out?
6. Can Google find THIS?
Let's say I create a page lonesome.php, it's url is like this: mysite.com/lonesome.php
I NEVER link it, NEVER mail it. NEVER even talk about it :)
Can Google still find it? If yes, how the hell did he do it? : D
I know I can exclude it using robots.txt etc, but I just want to know :)
7. 99% of my images are actually background images!
Yep, I'm working on a "liquid" site and use percentages instead of pixels, that's why its much more easier to use css image-background then real img tags.
Is this ok with G?
I think these are some of the major things that were going through my head lately, feel free to comment/answer on any of these.
I'll lurk around now : D
However, I'll answer number 4 and 5. Google will see only what the script sends out as HTML output.
They can't see the PHP source code unless you have it separately listed in some sort of public code repository.
