tonnie wrote:
> Els schreef:
>> tonnie wrote:
>>> Els schreef:
[
http://locusoptimus.com/css-trickery...-on-hover.php]
>>> - no headers
>>
>> You mean h2, h3? The pages are very short - where would you have put
>> headers in?
>
> I agree that there is not mucht text, but still, you could consider to
> change this:
>
> The problem they experience, is demonstrated here:
>
> Into:
>
> <h3>The problem IE users experience with hovering on an image border:</h3>
I'll think about that one, cause it may be good for SEO, but I don't
find it as natural sounding as the sentence I had.
To add a header, and keep it natural, I'd perhaps do it like this:
<h3>Problem Demo</h3>
<p>The problem IE users experience .... </p>
That would be good for the visitor's overview of the page, but
wouldn't add any SEO effect afaics.
>>> - make your title as short as possible
>>> no need to use this @ Locus Optimus ©2005
>>> put it in the description or place it on the page in a footer
>>
>> I know there is no need, but I like it that way. Is it bad for SEO or
>> any other reason?
>
> The more text in a title, the weaker its components get.
This is where I'll sacrifice SEO :-)
>>> - to me there are, i can see you use johns technique of 'no menu'
>>> on the page, not enough further options.
>>
>> No, I don't know of John's 'no menu' technique.
>
> Ah, i see. Just jumped into conclusions then as i did read somewhere
> Johne helped you out to optimise this one.
That was this page:
http://locusoptimus.com/css-trickery...lative-bug.php
But I only took some pointers from him wrt to the content and titles,
not the page set up or layout.
This one is also influenced by John btw, and does rather well:
http://locusoptimus.com/css-trickery/ie7-hover-bug.php
Is no.1 for keywords 'new bug ie7', 'css rollover bug', 'ie7 rollover
bug' and no.6 for 'new bug IE'. (all without quotes)
>>> all more or less minor points, but this one isn't:
>>>
>>> - to long dokument name
[snip]
>> I agree, that it appears too long - I just don't know what I can leave
>> out without losing the meaning and specificity.
>>
>>> ie-image-border-styles-on-hover-solution.php
>
> Suggestion:
>
> ie-image-border.php
>
> or
>
> image-border-ie.php
>
> Try to get the strongest words in it.
Strong words indeed - but it takes away from people searching for
"hover not working on images in IE" or "mouseover styles not working
in IE". I agree, that if I had to restrict myself to 3 words, you
picked the right ones, but still.. I'm not sure if I think it's a good
idea to change it. :-)
> For those who did inspect my pages: i not always practice what i preach. 
Same here! <g>
>>> In the last part of his post Matt Cutts points to the use of these
>>> stretched filled with words URl's:
>>>
>>> http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/
>>
>> I may be missing the point - he is saying that Google does not
>> penalize dashes, not even when there are many, and I think his last
>> point has more to do with long domain names than with long urls?
>>
>> From what I read there, the above url is perfect for SEO...
>
> Yes, but a dokument name is also part of a URl isn't it?
Yup, but urls don't get spelled out as often as domainnames. And as he
also explains, with more words, you have more options of different
keyword searches ending up on your page. The thing is of course to not
have too few, nor too many. I know the name I chose is on the longish
end, I just hope it's not too long.
[
http://vision2form.nl/websitedesign/...tructure.html]
[language flags]
> That was years ago and discussed in niwo. That discussions did make an
> impression then, didn't they.
Surely did. It also helps that it gets repeated about every 3 months
:-)
[z vs s / US vs UK spelling]
> I know, still figuring out what would be best. Catching them all in a
> few pages or writing more to promote them. Hm, in fact i know what to
> do. But hey lazy ...
Go on, it won't take 10 minutes ;-)
>> (I take it you're still gonna add the instructions that are already in
>> the Dutch version and partly in the German version?)
>
> Yes, all of it has to be translated. But for the moment i am writing to
> much in Dutch and having almost no time left to translate the rest.
15 minutes a day. (advice that I preach, not currently practise, but I
know it works). Just take 15 minutes, and then stop. Don't get sucked
into doing 16 minutes. Just 15 a day.
> App. 200 pages are still waiting to be translated into German and most
> of them into English. 
I have the reverse problem. Wrote everything and anything in English -
now I want to make a Dutch version. I used to have plans to translate
LocusMeus into both Dutch and Portuguese as well, but I've since given
up on that idea. Just too much work :-)
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