Seo cheat sheet 2013
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The document provides an overview of key on-page SEO elements and best practices, including important HTML tags like <title> and <meta> tags, HTTP status codes, XML sitemaps, targeting multiple languages, and mobile web development techniques. It covers topics like canonicalization, metadata, social sharing tags, and responsive design to help optimize websites for search engines and users.
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Important User-agentsRobot Control Syntax
Sitemap Syntax
For robots.txt, robots
meta tags
& X-Robots-Tag
Googlebot (can be
used as default for most
Google crawlers)
Googlebot-News
Googlebot-Image
Mediapartners (Adsense)
Bingbot
Yandexbot
Rogerbot
Baiduspider
FacebookExternalHit
Googlebot-Mobile
(Mobile Smartphones)
Googlebot-Mobile
Mediapartners-Google
(Mobile Adsense) or
Mediapartners
User-agent in HTTP(S) requests
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1;
+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
While robots.txt may restrict
crawling, only Meta Robots and
X-Robots will remove URLs from
search results.
Nofollow (do not follow links)
Noindex (do not index)
Noarchive (do not archive)
NoODP (Do not show Open Directory
Project description)
...Or combined (noindex, nofollow)
If the robots <META> tag is not defined,
the default is "INDEX,FOLLOW"
Googlebot-News
Googlebot-Image/1.0
Mediapartners-Google
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0;
+http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0;
+http://yandex.com/bots)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0;
UrlCrawler; http://moz.com/help/pro/
rogerbot-crawler)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0;
+/web/20130307230956/http://www.
/search/spider.html)
facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.
facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1
like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9
(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5
Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible;
Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.
com/bot.html)
[various mobile device types] (compatible;
Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.
google.com/bot.html)
[various mobile device types] (compatible;
Mediapartners-Google/2.1; +http://www.
google.com/bot.html)
Robots.txt
Robots Best Practices
Arguments can be:X-Robots
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>1970-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml.gz</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>
XML Sitemaps
Sitemap Index File
Meta Robots
Location: http://example.com/robots.txt
Location: Sent in the HTTP headers
Location: In the html <head>
More information at http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
More information at http://noarchive.net/xrobots/
More information at http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html
User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: /no-google.html
Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
<meta name="ROBOT NAME" content="ARGUMENTS" />
http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz
http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz
Default Locations
Mobile
News
Image
Video
Other Common Sitemap Types:](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/seocheatsheet2-2013-130913062940-phpapp01/85/Seo-cheat-sheet-2013-2-320.jpg)
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Important Metadata
<head>
<meta property="og:title" content="Title Goes Here">
<meta property="og:description" content="description-goes-here">
<meta property="og:type" content="your-content-type-goes-here"> (e.g., "article")
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.your-site.com/">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.your-site.com/image.jpg">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="your-site-name">
<meta property="fb:admins" content="your-Facebook-page-user-ID">
</head>
<a href="[profile_url]?rel=author">Google</a>
<a href="[profile_url]?rel=publisher">Google</a>
<head>
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:url" content="http://www.example.com/your-url-goes-here/">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Title Goes Here">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Your description goes here.">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://example.com/image.jpg">
</head>
<html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
<head>
<meta itemprop="name" content="Title Goes Here">
<meta itemprop="description" content="Description Goes Here">
<meta itemprop="image" content="http://example.com/image.jpg">
</head>
Facebook Open Graph
Twitter Cards
Google+
Google+ Authorship
Google+ Publisher
More information at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards
More information at https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/
More information at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
More information at
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2539557
More information at
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1708844
Google+ will extract information from Open Graph properties, title
and meta description tags, or Schema.org microdata (recommended).
For author information in Google search results:
For businesses, brands, products and organizations:
Link your content to your Google+ profile
Link your homepage to your Google+ profile
Link to your website from your Google+ page's profile
Link back to your site from the ‘Contributor’
section of your Google+ profile
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Seo cheat sheet 2013
- 1. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet Important HTML Elements Title tag Meta Description Tag Image Best Practices HTTP Status Codes Canonicalization 200 OK/Success 301 Permanent Redirect 302 Temporary Redirect 404 Not Found 410 Gone (permanently removed) 500 Server Error 503 Unavailable (retry later) Webmaster Tools <head> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <head> <meta name="description" content="This is an example."> </head> No longer than 60-80 characters Important keywords near the beginning Each title should be unique No longer than 155 characters Each description should be unique Well written descriptions influence click-through rate Hyperlinks Text Link SEO Tips for URLs Common Duplicate Homepage URLs NoFollowed Link Image Link Hyperlinking Best Practices Google Webmaster Tools Bing Webmaster Tools Yandex Webmaster Tools Canonicalized URL Best Practices <a href="http://www.example.com/ webpage.html">Keyword in Anchor Text</a> <a href="http://www.example.com/webpage.html"><img src=/slideshow/seo-cheat-sheet22013-26164438/26164438/"img/ keyword.jpg" alt="keyword" width="100" height="100"></a> <a href="http://www.example.com/ webpage.html" rel="nofollow"> Keyword in Anchor Text</a> Limit links per page to roughly 150 Use "nofollow" for paid links and untrusted content For image links, the alt tags serves as anchor text http://www.example.com/ rel="canonical" <link href="http://www.example.com/" rel="canonical" /> <img src=/slideshow/seo-cheat-sheet22013-26164438/26164438/"img/keyword.jpg" alt="keyword" width="100" height="100"> http://www.example.com http://example.com http://www.example.com/index.html http://example.com/index.html http://example.com/index.html&sessid=123 1. Protocol 2. Subdomain 3. Root Domain 4. Top-Level Domain 5. Subfolder/Path 6. Page 7. Parameter 8. Named Anchor • Use descriptive keywords in URLs • Watch for duplicate content when using multiple parameters • When possible, place content on the same subdomain to preserve domain authority Recommended: http://example.com/blog Less Ideal: http://blog.example.com https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/ http://webmaster.yandex.com/ URL Best Practices Common URL Elements http://store.example.com/category/keyword?id=123#top 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 V2.0 | moz.com | © 2013 SEOmoz More information at http://mz.cm/HTTP-codes More information at http://mz.cm/canonical
- 2. V2.0 | moz.com | © 2013 SEOmoz 2The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet Important User-agentsRobot Control Syntax Sitemap Syntax For robots.txt, robots meta tags & X-Robots-Tag Googlebot (can be used as default for most Google crawlers) Googlebot-News Googlebot-Image Mediapartners (Adsense) Bingbot Yandexbot Rogerbot Baiduspider FacebookExternalHit Googlebot-Mobile (Mobile Smartphones) Googlebot-Mobile Mediapartners-Google (Mobile Adsense) or Mediapartners User-agent in HTTP(S) requests Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) While robots.txt may restrict crawling, only Meta Robots and X-Robots will remove URLs from search results. Nofollow (do not follow links) Noindex (do not index) Noarchive (do not archive) NoODP (Do not show Open Directory Project description) ...Or combined (noindex, nofollow) If the robots <META> tag is not defined, the default is "INDEX,FOLLOW" Googlebot-News Googlebot-Image/1.0 Mediapartners-Google Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0; UrlCrawler; http://moz.com/help/pro/ rogerbot-crawler) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +/web/20130307230956/http://www. /search/spider.html) facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www. facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php) Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google. com/bot.html) [various mobile device types] (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www. google.com/bot.html) [various mobile device types] (compatible; Mediapartners-Google/2.1; +http://www. google.com/bot.html) Robots.txt Robots Best Practices Arguments can be:X-Robots <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <url> <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc> <lastmod>1970-01-01</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.8</priority> </url> </urlset> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml.gz</loc> <lastmod>2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml.gz</loc> <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod> </sitemap> </sitemapindex> XML Sitemaps Sitemap Index File Meta Robots Location: http://example.com/robots.txt Location: Sent in the HTTP headers Location: In the html <head> More information at http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html More information at http://noarchive.net/xrobots/ More information at http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html User-agent: googlebot Disallow: /no-google.html Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml X-Robots-Tag: noindex <meta name="ROBOT NAME" content="ARGUMENTS" /> http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz Default Locations Mobile News Image Video Other Common Sitemap Types:
- 3. V2.0 | moz.com | © 2013 SEOmoz 3The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet Important Metadata <head> <meta property="og:title" content="Title Goes Here"> <meta property="og:description" content="description-goes-here"> <meta property="og:type" content="your-content-type-goes-here"> (e.g., "article") <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.your-site.com/"> <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.your-site.com/image.jpg"> <meta property="og:site_name" content="your-site-name"> <meta property="fb:admins" content="your-Facebook-page-user-ID"> </head> <a href="[profile_url]?rel=author">Google</a> <a href="[profile_url]?rel=publisher">Google</a> <head> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"> <meta name="twitter:url" content="http://www.example.com/your-url-goes-here/"> <meta name="twitter:title" content="Title Goes Here"> <meta name="twitter:description" content="Your description goes here."> <meta name="twitter:image" content="http://example.com/image.jpg"> </head> <html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article"> <head> <meta itemprop="name" content="Title Goes Here"> <meta itemprop="description" content="Description Goes Here"> <meta itemprop="image" content="http://example.com/image.jpg"> </head> Facebook Open Graph Twitter Cards Google+ Google+ Authorship Google+ Publisher More information at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards More information at https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/ More information at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/ More information at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2539557 More information at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1708844 Google+ will extract information from Open Graph properties, title and meta description tags, or Schema.org microdata (recommended). For author information in Google search results: For businesses, brands, products and organizations: Link your content to your Google+ profile Link your homepage to your Google+ profile Link to your website from your Google+ page's profile Link back to your site from the ‘Contributor’ section of your Google+ profile 1 1 2 2
- 4. V2.0 | moz.com | © 2013 SEOmoz 4The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet Targeting Multiple Languages Mobile Web Development Declare language attribute in the HTML element Responsive Design Separate URLs HTML version in <head> Sitemap version Annotate alternate language & country versions of content 1 3 ccTLDs (Country Level Only) Subdirectories with gTLDS Subdomains with gTLDS example.de example.com/de/ de.example.com/ URL Structures for Country & Language Targeting rel="alternate" hreflang="x" <html lang="fr"> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="http://www.example.com/" /> (Specifies Default) <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://example.com/de/" /> (Specifies Language) <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-ES" href="http://example.com/de-es/" /> (Specifies Language + Region) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <url> <loc>http://example.com/english</loc> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://example.com/deutsch/" /> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/english/" /> </url> <url> <loc>http://example.com/deutsch/</loc> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/english/" /> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://www.example.com/deutsch/" /> </url> </urlset> Uses CSS to alter the rendering of the page on the device using media queries /* Phones */ @media (max-width: 767px) { ... } /* Tablets to Desktops */ @media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 992px) { ... } /* Large devices */ @media (min-width: 1200px) { ... } Identify mobile and desktop versions using rel="alternate" and rel="canonical" Example: Desktop page: http://example.com/ <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max- width: 640px)" href="http://m.example.com/"/> Mobile page: http://m.example.com/ <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/"/> Popular Languages Popular Regions ch Chinese es Spanish en English ar Arabic hi Hindi CN China US United States IN India JP Japan BR Brazil More language codes can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes More region codes can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 Dynamic Serving via Vary HTTP Header2 Serves different HTML and CSS on the same URL, varied by user agent (...rest of HTTP response headers...) HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Vary: User-Agent Content-Length: 5710