Website Design for Theme Based
Search Engine Indexing
When a theme based search engine spider crawls a website, it reads
it in the following manner:
Domain Name - countdowntoarmageddon.com
Sub Directories - Iraq war, prophesy, earth changes and survival
Page Title Tags - Learn more about page title tags and seo
Meta Tag Data - Learn more about meta tags and optimization
Headings. <H1> <H2> - Learn more about header text and
optimization
Outgoing Links - Anchor text, attributes and surrounding text
ALT and Title Attributes - Learn more about alt and title attributes
and seo
Named Anchors - Hyperlinks to help navigate your website
Body Content - Main body of content intended for visitor
Once the search engine spider has finished reading the text it does
the following:
Delete all filler or stop words - These are words like and, or,
the, web.
Identify recurring keywords - Words recurring throughout the site.
Stem the identified keywords - Survival becomes survivor, survivors
and surviving.
Identify keyword phrases - Survival becomes 'survival gear'.
Weight keywords using common indexing methods - Proximity and density
for example.
Establish the websites theme, based on the dominance of keyword
and keyword phrases.
It may sound simple enough, just keep every area of a web page rich
with keywords. Unfortunately, it isn't that simple when you have
a website as diverse in the eyes of the spider as countdowntoarmageddon.com
or worse yet, a department store website selling everything from
perfume to lawn mowers.
A search engine using theme based indexing technology gets confused
because the website appears to be diluted with unrelated information.
It can't decide if the website is about survival, the Iraq war,
earth changes or prophecy. As a result, the theme based search engine
will interpret countdowntoarmageddon.com as less relevant for all
the above queries.
The question now, is what to do about it?
Identify your Website Themes
Your Website's theme, or search engine theme, is simply what your
website is really all about. Strip away any slightly off topic pages.
Forget about the obscure, far reaching terms you may have considered
optimizing for in an effort to grab as much peripheral traffic as
possible. Then ask yourself... "In as few a words and phrases
as possible, what is my website really all about?"
If your website is about several different things that a theme
based search engine is going to interpret as unrelated, then you
may want to consider dividing your website into as many different
domains as you have unrelated themes.
In addition, it's always best to have each domain hosted on different
servers with different C block IP addresses, and then cross link
between the different websites any and all content that is related.
Learn more about Cross Linking and the importance of splitting
up your website into as many different separate domains as you have
unrelated themes by readingf The Power of Cross-Linking.
Designing a Website for Theme Based
Search Engine Indexing
Select a keyword intense domain name using hyphens.
Name all sub-directories with keyword names using hyphens.
Include your most important keywords being optimized for in web
page titles.
Deliver consistent keyword meta tag data, unique for each page,
throughout the website.
Use header text to deliver consistent theme information throughout
the website.
Assign keyword relevant contextual text links.
Use ALT text on all graphics and graphics links.
Use Title attributes on lists, forms, section headings, images,
hyperlinks etc.
Link liberally to authority websites which are relevant to your
theme.
Riddle body text with keyword phrase intense information using synonyms
and stemming.
Ask other on topic websites, hubs and authorities to link back to
you using keyword relevant links, attributes and surrounding descriptive
text.
In order to create a good theme based website you must be consistent,
which is easy when building a website from scratch, not so easy
for some existing websites.
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