Andy-H Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Just wondering if I was aiming for the key phrase "Manchester band", would re-writing all of my urls to be prepended with "manchester-band" be considered black-hat SEO or earn me some much needed brownie points? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249106-help-with-seo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 It wouldn't be considered black-hat, but it won't have the magical impact you're expecting. Google for example doesn't actually give much weight to a page based on keywords within the URL, it's more of a superficial benefit for your users. You will gain slight improvements given the keywords used in your links actually within the page, but you would be better focussing on other improvements really. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249106-help-with-seo/#findComment-1279287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-H Posted October 14, 2011 Author Share Posted October 14, 2011 Cheers, I don't know alot about SEO, do you know any good reading material? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249106-help-with-seo/#findComment-1279294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
floridaflatlander Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 http://onlinebusiness.about.com/od/searchengineoptimization/a/search-ranking.htm If you could get music stores, restaurants, news papers, the local chamber anyone with an entertainment or like section to link to your site first as “Manchester band”(or whatever people are most likely to use in their search) or even the name of your band that would be good. The bigger the site linking to yours the better. Have good content, a decent title and description and then seek links, you may have to beat the bushes looking for people to link to you but it is a form of marketing. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249106-help-with-seo/#findComment-1279300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249106-help-with-seo/#findComment-1280887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-H Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Thanks Doesn't get better than straight from the horses mouth lol Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249106-help-with-seo/#findComment-1280888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-H Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 What's the stance on hidden elements for extra content, that will remain hidden (display: none) from anyone with javascript disabled, but still be on the home page for content, and then javascript will swap out some links to allow the visibility of each element to be changed and make the content viewable, will that be good/bad for SEO? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249106-help-with-seo/#findComment-1281091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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