New site. Can anyone tell me if I am doing something potentially bad BEFORE I commit?

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Andy Dingley

use the title and name attribute in your image and anchor tags.

If you were thinking of using "name", use "id" instead.

Use it where it's needed, don't think that sprinkling it around like
pixie-dust is going to help anything.
 
D

derek

If you were thinking of using "name", use "id" instead.
Use it where it's needed, don't think that sprinkling it around like
pixie-dust is going to help anything.

sorry, meant to say use name in the anchor tags but not image.
 
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Adrienne Boswell

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed derek writing in
The meta description tag still provides a lot of value though.

Google Webmaster Tools alerts you to descriptions that it thinks are too
short, so Google does use description.
 
B

Bergamot

Adrienne said:
Google does use description.

Google usually shows meta description on a search results page. That
doesn't mean it indexes that text, though. It should be human readable
friendly, not stuffed with keywords, since humans are the primary audience.

I'll go to a site that has a well-written description showing in the
serp over one showing a string of keywords any day.
 
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derek

Don't use name in the anchor tags, use id instead.

using <a name="sectionname">Section</a>
allows you to have a link like this: http://www.domain.com/page.html#sectionname
so it does provide value. i realize what id is used for. i was not referring to that use.
so, my suggestion remains the same, use a name in your anchor tags.
if someone comes along and likes your page and wants to refer to a specific
part of your page, providing a bookmark location on your page that they can
reference provides value.
 
J

John Hosking

derek said:
using <a name="sectionname">Section</a>
allows you to have a link like this: http://www.example.com/page.html#sectionname

And using <a id="sectionname">Section</a> doesn't?

BTW, please note that I have altered your text in my quote to use
example.com. No reason to spam or misuse domain.com when we just want to
use an example (which example.com, example.org, and example.net are
reserved for).
so it does provide value. i realize what id is used for. i was not referring to that use.
so, my suggestion remains the same, use a name in your anchor tags.
if someone comes along and likes your page and wants to refer to a specific
part of your page, providing a bookmark location on your page that they can
reference provides value.

Id allows that. Try it.
 

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