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The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
                                                                                                                                                                                        Revision 09

                                                                                                                                  Search Engine Indexing Limits
                                     Important SEO HTML tags
                                                                                                                            *Does not apply to websites with significant authority
                                                                                                       Page File Size No more than 150 kilobytes (Before Images, CSS and other Attachments)
                 <head>
   Title Tag         <title>Keyword</title>
                                                                                                         Amount of     No more than 100 unique links per page
                 </head>
                                                                                                           links
                                                                                                                       No more than 70 characters
                                                                                                          Title Tag
                 <h1>Most Important</h1>
                                                                                                          Meta
  H1,H2,H3       <h2>Second Most Important</h2>                                                                        No more than 155 characters
                                                                                                        Description
                 <h3>Third Most Important</h3>
                                                                                                                                            Bad Example:
                                                                                                                                            http://www.mysite.com/brands.php?
 Bold, Strong <b>Keyword</b>                                                                           Parameters in                        object=1&type=2&kind=3&node=5&arg=6
                                                                                                                     No more than 2
(Same Worth) <strong>Keyword</strong>                                                                      URL
                                                                                                                                            Good Example:
                                                                                                                                            http://www.mysite.com/brands.php?nike
    Image
                 <img src=”keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” />
  (XHTML)                                                                                                                                   Bad Example:
                                                                                                                                            http://www.mysite.com/people/places/things/
                 <a href=”http://www.mysite.com/webpage.html” title=”keyword”>Keyword                                                       noun/danny/car
  Hyperlink
                 in Anchor Text</a>                                                                    Depth of URL No more than 4
                                                                                                                                                                   *Best Practice
  Hyperlink   <a href=”http://www.mysite.com/webpage.html” title=”keyword”                                                                  Good Example:
(No Followed) rel=”nofollow”>Keyword in Anchor Text</a>                                                                                     http://www.mysite.com/people/danny/


                                                                                                                      301 Redirect for Apache
                  Recommended Title Tag Syntax
                                                                                                 Write to file called ‘.htaccess’. The file is named only as an extension.
                Keyword < Category | Website Title
                                                                                           Hidden files must be viewable in operating system. mod_rewrite must be enabled

                                                                                                       Command                                                            Description
               Common Canonical Homepage Issue
                                                                           Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.newdomain.com/                        Redirect single file or directory to a new
               http://www.mysite.com
                                                                           newpage.html                                                                file or directory on a different domain
               http://mysite.com
    Bad
               http://www.mysite.com/index.html
               http://mysite.com/index.html
                                                                           RewriteEngine on
                                                                                                                                                       Redirect http://mysite.com to http://
                                                                           RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
               http://www.mysite.com/
   Good                                                                                                                                                www.mysite.com. Affects entire domain.
                                                                           RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
To condense the four default homepages into one homepage, use
301 redirects (See table on right) to correct for erroneous incoming       Entire site:
                                                                                                                                                       Redirect entire domain to a new domain
links and make all internal links point to your domain using the           Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/
                                                                                                                                                       as either a 301 (recommended) or 302
syntax ‘http://www.mysite.com/’. Always include trailing “/” on folders.   Redirect permanent /old http://www.newdomain.com/new
The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet

                                                 Important Search Engine Robots                                                                               Robots Meta Tag
                                Last updated April 29th 2008. Check http://www.user-agents.org/ for updates
                                                                                                                                       <meta name=”ROBOT NAME” content=”ARGUMENTS” />
                               Googlebot/2.1 ( http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Google Search
                                                                                                                                          ROBOT NAME can be either “robots” for all robots
                               Googlebot/2.1 ( http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Google Search                                                                                                                                  or the user-agent of a specific robot.
                                                                                                                                               See robot user-agent list to the left.
                               Googlebot-Image/1.0
Google Image Search
                                                                                                                                                                 Arguments
                               Googlebot-Image/1.0 ( http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Google Image Search
                                                                                                                                                      Google, Yahoo, Live,
                                                                                                                                        noindex                                   Page Not Indexed
                               msnbot/x.xx ( http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
MSN Search                                                                                                                                                   Ask
                               MSNBOT/0.xx (http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) 
MSN Search                                                                                                                                            Google, Yahoo, Live,        All Links on Page
                                                                                                                                       nofollow
                                                                                                                                                             Ask                Become No Followed
                               msnbot-media/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
MSN Media Search Robot
                                                                                                                                                      Google, Yahoo, Live,
                                                                                                                                       noarchive                                  Page Not Cached
                               msnbot-Products/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) 
Windows Live Product Search                                                                                                                                  Ask
                               MSNBOT_Mobile MSMOBOT Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.02; Windows CE; Default)
Microsoft Search for Mobiles                                                                                                                                                   Stops Description and Title
                                                                                                                                        noodp         Google,Yahoo, Live        Tag Overwrite by DMOZ
                                                                                                                                                                                   (Only for Homepage)
                               ia_archiver
Alexa / The Internet Archive
                               ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Alexa / The Internet Archive                                                                                                                                                    Stops Description and
                                                                                                                                         noydir              Yahoo              Title Tag Overwrite by
                               ia_archiver/1.6
Alexa / The Internet Archive
                                                                                                                                                                                   Yahoo Directory
                                                                                                                                                                                 Stops Google from
                               Yahoo-Blogs/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/crawling/
Yahoo Blog Search              crawling-02.html )                                                                                      nosnippet             Google            Generating Description
                                                                                                                                                                               Based on On-page Text
Yahoo Multimedia Search        Yahoo-MMAudVid/1.0 (mms dash mmaudvidcrawler dash support at yahoo dash inc dot com)
Yahoo Product Search           YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/)
                                                                                                                                                              Sitemap Syntax
Yahoo Product Search           YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://search.yahoo.com/yahooseeker.html)

Yahoo Product Search           YahooSeeker/1.1 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/)       <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=’UTF-8’?>
                                                                                                                                       <urlset xmlns=’http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9’>
                                                                                                                                        <url>
                               Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves)
Ask/Teoma Search                                                                                                                         <loc>http://www.mysite.com/</loc>
                                                                                                                                         <lastmod>1987-05-25</lastmod>
                               Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)
Ask/Teoma Search                                                                                                                         <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
                                                                                                                                         <priority>0.8</priority>
                               Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml)
Ask/Teoma Search                                                                                                                        </url>
                                                                                                                                       </urlset>

                                                                                                Robots.txt Syntax
                Common Robot Traps                                                                                                         Default Locations Search Engines Look for Sitemaps
                                                                                          User-agent: *
          Input Forms                                                                                                                              http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
                                                                                          Disallow: /privatefolder/
          Session IDs in URL                                                                                                                      http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml.gz
                                                                                          Disallow: /privatefile.html
          Pages Restricted by Cookies                                                                                                               http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.gz
                                                                                          User-agent: Googlebot/2.1
          Frames
                                                                                          Disallow: /nogoogle.html                           Visit http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ for a free sitemap
          Logins                                                                          Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet: SEO HTML Tags, Indexing Limits, 301 Redirects

  • 1. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet Revision 09 Search Engine Indexing Limits Important SEO HTML tags *Does not apply to websites with significant authority Page File Size No more than 150 kilobytes (Before Images, CSS and other Attachments) <head> Title Tag <title>Keyword</title> Amount of No more than 100 unique links per page </head> links No more than 70 characters Title Tag <h1>Most Important</h1> Meta H1,H2,H3 <h2>Second Most Important</h2> No more than 155 characters Description <h3>Third Most Important</h3> Bad Example: http://www.mysite.com/brands.php? Bold, Strong <b>Keyword</b> Parameters in object=1&type=2&kind=3&node=5&arg=6 No more than 2 (Same Worth) <strong>Keyword</strong> URL Good Example: http://www.mysite.com/brands.php?nike Image <img src=”keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” /> (XHTML) Bad Example: http://www.mysite.com/people/places/things/ <a href=”http://www.mysite.com/webpage.html” title=”keyword”>Keyword noun/danny/car Hyperlink in Anchor Text</a> Depth of URL No more than 4 *Best Practice Hyperlink <a href=”http://www.mysite.com/webpage.html” title=”keyword” Good Example: (No Followed) rel=”nofollow”>Keyword in Anchor Text</a> http://www.mysite.com/people/danny/ 301 Redirect for Apache Recommended Title Tag Syntax Write to file called ‘.htaccess’. The file is named only as an extension. Keyword < Category | Website Title Hidden files must be viewable in operating system. mod_rewrite must be enabled Command Description Common Canonical Homepage Issue Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.newdomain.com/ Redirect single file or directory to a new http://www.mysite.com newpage.html file or directory on a different domain http://mysite.com Bad http://www.mysite.com/index.html http://mysite.com/index.html RewriteEngine on Redirect http://mysite.com to http:// RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC] http://www.mysite.com/ Good www.mysite.com. Affects entire domain. RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301] To condense the four default homepages into one homepage, use 301 redirects (See table on right) to correct for erroneous incoming Entire site: Redirect entire domain to a new domain links and make all internal links point to your domain using the Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/ as either a 301 (recommended) or 302 syntax ‘http://www.mysite.com/’. Always include trailing “/” on folders. Redirect permanent /old http://www.newdomain.com/new
  • 2. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet Important Search Engine Robots Robots Meta Tag Last updated April 29th 2008. Check http://www.user-agents.org/ for updates <meta name=”ROBOT NAME” content=”ARGUMENTS” /> Googlebot/2.1 ( http://www.google.com/bot.html) Google Search ROBOT NAME can be either “robots” for all robots Googlebot/2.1 ( http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) Google Search or the user-agent of a specific robot. See robot user-agent list to the left. Googlebot-Image/1.0 Google Image Search Arguments Googlebot-Image/1.0 ( http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) Google Image Search Google, Yahoo, Live, noindex Page Not Indexed msnbot/x.xx ( http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) MSN Search Ask MSNBOT/0.xx (http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)  MSN Search Google, Yahoo, Live, All Links on Page nofollow Ask Become No Followed msnbot-media/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) MSN Media Search Robot Google, Yahoo, Live, noarchive Page Not Cached msnbot-Products/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)  Windows Live Product Search Ask MSNBOT_Mobile MSMOBOT Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.02; Windows CE; Default) Microsoft Search for Mobiles Stops Description and Title noodp Google,Yahoo, Live Tag Overwrite by DMOZ (Only for Homepage) ia_archiver Alexa / The Internet Archive ia_archiver-web.archive.org Alexa / The Internet Archive Stops Description and noydir Yahoo Title Tag Overwrite by ia_archiver/1.6 Alexa / The Internet Archive Yahoo Directory Stops Google from Yahoo-Blogs/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/crawling/ Yahoo Blog Search crawling-02.html ) nosnippet Google Generating Description Based on On-page Text Yahoo Multimedia Search Yahoo-MMAudVid/1.0 (mms dash mmaudvidcrawler dash support at yahoo dash inc dot com) Yahoo Product Search YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/) Sitemap Syntax Yahoo Product Search YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://search.yahoo.com/yahooseeker.html) Yahoo Product Search YahooSeeker/1.1 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/) <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=’UTF-8’?> <urlset xmlns=’http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9’> <url> Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves) Ask/Teoma Search <loc>http://www.mysite.com/</loc> <lastmod>1987-05-25</lastmod> Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma) Ask/Teoma Search <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.8</priority> Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma; http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml) Ask/Teoma Search </url> </urlset> Robots.txt Syntax Common Robot Traps Default Locations Search Engines Look for Sitemaps User-agent: * Input Forms http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml Disallow: /privatefolder/ Session IDs in URL http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml.gz Disallow: /privatefile.html Pages Restricted by Cookies http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.gz User-agent: Googlebot/2.1 Frames Disallow: /nogoogle.html Visit http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ for a free sitemap Logins Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml