Google, Yahoo!, and MSN have come together to form a new meta tag, called the canonical meta tag. What does the canonical meta tag do? Why should you use it?
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Third Step: Validate Code
Although your website may look pretty, there could be a mess behind that. And – to make it all worse – any search engine bot would view only the code of your website, not the design. Although it can get through a mess of code, why not make it easier for the search engine bot to find your content? This is one of those techniques that won’t put you on the top, but it will give you the extra boost that you need.
Second Step: Header Tags
After a search engine bot scans the meta data of your web page, it will move on to the body of the page. The body of your page should have a flow to it, and it should include header tags. This will organize your content for your users and also for the search engine bots.
First Step: Meta Tags
After reading the two previous articles, you are probably interested in optimizing your website for search engines and, in the long run, making more money. There are many ways to do this, but we will start off with one method that is easy and affective. Please note that this is not the one way to make your website popular. A noticeable change in your search engine ranking will require the application of many of the explained methods.