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ChadK
Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/8 14:21

  • ChadK

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Put the content blocks before the left and right blocks...
View the source at:http://www.aviary.info to see what I mean. The page parses the center and center-right/left blocks, then the right blocks then the left blocks.
I've done this because I use the left blocks for the menu and don't really care to have google try to grab it's keywords from my menu's links, rather I want it to focus on my CONTENT in the center blocks.

I haven't seen ANY themes for XOOPS that use this preferred method of displaying tables? They all parse the left blocks first..

I suppose I could put my menus in the right blocks but that's a bit awkward.
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Alan-A
Re: Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/8 14:25

  • Alan-A

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  • Since: 2004/2/17


Hi,
thats interesting - how did you find out that that makes a difference?
Regards,
Alan
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Alan-A
Re:Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/8 15:40

  • Alan-A

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 191

  • Since: 2004/2/17


Mmmm,
I don't seem to be able to edit my own postings any more....
What I meant to ask, Chad, is did it make much of a difference, and do you know why it makes a difference?
Alan
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studioC
Re: Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/8 15:45

  • studioC

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  • Since: 2003/12/7


hi,


sometimes i put a <div></div> before the first block in code and hide it with css to my visitors :):)

in this div i put kewords which match url and main keywords. google seems to to learn those things we try to do and go around his searh method .. but actually he does not now to interpret external stylesheets.

using external stylesheet for this div (give it id="google")

and add in style.css
#google {display:none;}

he places the content to matching keywords
have a look using google search keyword "hokamp" and look at googles result ...


hope this helps you.. too !
but ... pssssst .. :)


michael
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ChadK
Re: Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/8 15:59

  • ChadK

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  • Posts: 242

  • Since: 2004/7/9 1


Google's wise to keywords on the page but that don't appear on the site and they'll degrade your ranking for it.

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tips/searchengine.html

I've used several of their ideas and my ranking has improved DRAMATICALLY. Search for "Parrot Classified" on google. ;)

The most helpful site was this one:
http://www.bruceclay.com/web_rank.htm
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studioC
Re: Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/8 16:16

  • studioC

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 922

  • Since: 2003/12/7


yes, of course i hope that my "keywords" match in content and url ... it's not only keywords but put content to that div eg. including "content" files ...

this is a very interesting topic perhaps we can add a forum "how do you public your XOOPS site" her on xoops.org

and sure there are some other criteria which will help us to be found in searchengines ... url rewrite or linkpopularity

perhaps some tools:
http://www.linkpopularitycheck.com/ etc...

i think that this will be very useful forum for some of us?

michael
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smdcom
Re:Theme design tip for better google results

wow.. it's interesting guys.. it's something new for me... thanks for the great info...
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script_fu
Re: Theme design tip for better google results

How would I go about setting up the sev_tang theme for search engine optimizations. Could you share a theme example?

Quote:

ChadK wrote:
Put the content blocks before the left and right blocks...
View the source at:http://www.aviary.info to see what I mean. The page parses the center and center-right/left blocks, then the right blocks then the left blocks.
I've done this because I use the left blocks for the menu and don't really care to have google try to grab it's keywords from my menu's links, rather I want it to focus on my CONTENT in the center blocks.

I haven't seen ANY themes for XOOPS that use this preferred method of displaying tables? They all parse the left blocks first..

I suppose I could put my menus in the right blocks but that's a bit awkward.
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Chappy
Re: Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/10 2:10

  • Chappy

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 456

  • Since: 2002/12/14


This is an interesting thread. I like the links referred to here and I think this topic would make a valuable news article. Good food for thought here...
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studioC
Re: Theme design tip for better google results

  • 2004/10/10 7:04

  • studioC

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 922

  • Since: 2003/12/7


yes really interesting stuff ...

think i misunderstood first posting first reading a bit ...

Quote:
View the source at:http://www.aviary.info to see what I mean. The page parses the center and center-right/left blocks, then the right blocks then the left blocks.


I made an positioning example some weeks ago on of my testsides :
http://warendorf-regional.de
where i load the centerblocks (and content) first in codeposition cause in the blocks should only be put ads and banner and that wasn't the real content to be shown .....


using styheets only for positioning things it is much easier to position your blocks and without that "positioning-tables" code becomes clearer and more readable. What do you think?


greetings
michael

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