What do you do for SEO?

[TechMan]

Yesterday I came to know that using full URL instead of just page name helps in SEO.
For example if you have a site www.example.com and you want to place a link of Contact Us page on home page then it should be done like this:

<a href="http://www.example.com/contact.htm">Contact Us</a>

instead of doing this:

<a href="contact.htm">Contact Us</a>

Don't know if it is true or not I am trying to find this out.

[petrosc]

Originally Posted by TechMan

Yesterday I came to know that using full URL instead of just page name helps in SEO.
For example if you have a site www.example.com and you want to place a link of Contact Us page on home page then it should be done like this:

<a href="http://www.example.com/contact.htm">Contact Us</a>

instead of doing this:

<a href="contact.htm">Contact Us</a>

Don't know if it is true or not I am trying to find this out.

That is true. Internal linking allows you to distribute Page Rank from one page of your site to another and it only works when you use a full URL

[trader]

Originally Posted by biggedon

here's a tip i got in my faves. first put some keywords into the "alt" tag when you have a banner at the top of your site......

Works really well Don. I have seen my alt tag words (all images, not just top banner) nicely indexed in the SEs many times. For best results the alt tag should (fit on 1 or 2 lines viewed using mouse-over), be relevant to both the page content and of course the image itself (which is the main purpose of ALT), and not involve only keyword stuffing.

[exponent]

Originally Posted by petrosc

That is true. Internal linking allows you to distribute Page Rank from one page of your site to another and it only works when you use a full URL

Yep, so use a full link on pages that you want to receive PR, and quick links on the rest.

[dncsacnt]

True, there are many things to be done in order to get your site increase rankings. But remember the most important thing is quality. Quality content, and quality backlinks, then followed by other more things in seo.

[grace5]

<a href="http://www.example.com/contact.htm">Contact Us</a>

instead of doing this:

<a href="contact.htm">Contact Us</a>

Did not know that but it makes sense.Now I only have 10,000 links to change

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