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Search engine optimization (SEO) is not only the job of the marketing department. It must be considered from a web site's inception and throughout its lifetime by you, the web site developer. Making changes to the architecture of a web site and modifying presentation techniques can dramatically increase search engine rankings and traffic levels. Written for the ASP.NET developer or tech-savvy marketer, this unique reference provides techniques for creating and maintaining web sites optimized for search engines. You'll discover how to facilitate the indexing of your site, as well as how to leverage specific technologies and services for site promotion. You will understand the role of web site architecture in search engine optimization and explore various topics therein. Knowing this will help you to develop a site that achieves great search engine rankings. What you will learn from this book Understand the criteria that influence search engine rankings Create keyword-rich URLs using ASP.NET, ISAPI_Rewrite, and UrlRewriter.NET Use HTTP Headers to properly indicate the status of web documents Create optimized content and cope with duplicate content effectively Avoid being the victim of black hat SEO techniques Understand and implement geo-targeting and cloaking Use site maps effectively—for users as well as search engines SEO enhancements that can easily be applied to an existing web site Build a search engine–friendly e-commerce catalog Who this book is for This book is for ASP.NET developers who need to incorporate search engine optimization principles into their web applications, as well as marketers who want to gain a better understanding of the technologies involved in search engine marketing. Enhance Your Knowledge Advance Your Career Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii Introduction xv Chapter 1: You: Programmer and Search Engine Marketer 1 Who Are You? 2 What Do You Need to Learn? 3 SEO and the Site Architecture 4 SEO Cannot Be an Afterthought 5 Communicating Architectural Decisions 5 Architectural Minutia Can Make or Break You 5 Preparing Your Playground 6 Installing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition 6 Installing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition 7 Installing SQL Server Management Studio Express 8 Installing IIS 8 Creating the seoasp Web Site 10 Creating the seoasp Web Application 12 Creating the seoasp SQL Server Database 15 Summary 19 Chapter 2: A Primer in Basic SEO 21 Introduction to SEO 21 Link Equity 22 Google PageRank 23 A Word on Usability and Accessibility 24 Search Engine Ranking Factors 25 On-Page Factors 25 Visible On-Page Factors 26 Invisible On-Page Factors 28 Time-Based Factors 30 External Factors 31 Potential Search Engine Penalties 34 The Google “Sandbox Effect” 34 The Expired Domain Penalty 35 Duplicate Content Penalty 35 The Google Supplemental Index 35 Resources and Tools 36 Web Analytics 36 Market Research 37 Researching Keywords 40 Browser Plugins 41 Community Forums 42 Search Engine Blogs and Resources 43 Summary 43 Chapter 3: Provocative SE-Friendly URLs 45 Why Do URLs Matter? 46 Static URLs and Dynamic URLs 47 Static URLs 48 Dynamic URLs 48 URLs and Duplicate Content 49 URLs of the Real World 49 Example #1: Dynamic URLs 49 Example #2: Numeric Rewritten URLs 51 Example #3: Keyword-Rich Rewritten URLs 51 Maintaining URL Consistency 52 Implementing URL Rewriting 53 URL Rewriting with IIS and ISAPI_Rewrite 55 Introducing Regular Expressions 64 Rewriting Numeric URLs with Two Parameters 69 Rewriting Keyword-Rich URLs 72 URL Rewriting with ASP.NET and UrlRewriter.NET 75 Configuring IIS to Pass All Requests to ASP.NET 75 Using UrlRewriter.NET 76 Creating Your Own Rewriting Code 82 Technical Considerations 83 Handling Postbacks Correctly 84 Absolute Paths and ~/ 86 Rewriting ID-Free URLs 87 .NET Regular Expressions 87 Rewriting ID-Free URLs Using Generic Handlers 90 Rewriting ID-Free URLs Using HTTP Modules 94 Rewriting Images and Streaming Media 96 Building a Link Factory 98 Problems Rewriting Doesn’t Solve 104 A Last Word of Caution 105 Summary 105 Chapter 4: Content Relocation and HTTP Status Codes 107 The HTTP Status Codes 108 Redirection Using 301 and 302 109 301 111 302 112 Removing Deleted Pages Using 404 112 Avoiding Indexing Error Pages Using 500 114 Building Custom Error Pages 114 Redirecting with ASP.NET and IIS 123 URL Correction 124 Dealing with Multiple Domain Names Properly 130 Using Redirects to Change Domain Names 130 URL Canonicalization: www.example.com vs. example.com 131 URL Canonicalization: /Default.aspx vs. / 132 Other Types of Redirects 132 Summary 132 Chapter 5: Duplicate Content 133 Causes and Effects of Duplicate Content 134 Duplicate Content as a Result of Site Architecture 134 Duplicate Content as a Result of Content Theft 135 Excluding Duplicate Content 135 Using the Robots Meta Tag 136 robots.txt Pattern Exclusion 137 Solutions for Commonly Duplicated Pages 142 Print-Friendly Pages 143 Navigation Links and Breadcrumb Navigation 143 Similar Pages 145 Pages with Duplicate Meta Tag or Title Values 146 URL Canonicalization 146 URL-Based Session IDs 146 Other Navigational Link Parameters 148 Affiliate Pages 148 Summary 154 Chapter 6: SE-Friendly HTML and JavaScript 155 Overall Architecture 156 Search Engine–Friendly JavaScript 156 JavaScript Links 157 DHTML Menus 157 Popup Windows 157 DHTML Popup Windows 164 Crawlable Images and Graphical Text 164 Search Engine–Friendly HTML 171 HTML Structural Elements 171 Copy Prominence and Tables 172 Frames 175 Using Forms 176 Using a Custom Markup Language to Generate SE-Friendly HTML 176 Flash and AJAX 181 The Blended Approach 181 Summary 182 Chapter 7: Web Feeds and Social Bookmarking 183 Web Feeds 183 RSS and Atom 184 Creating RSS Feeds 186 Syndicating RSS Feeds 191 Other Sources of Syndicated Content 194 Social Bookmarking 194 Summary 210 Chapter 8: Black Hat SEO 211 What’s with All the Hats? 212 Bending the Rules 213 Technical Analysis of Black-Hat Techniques 214 Attack Avoidance 215 Insertion Attacks 215 HTML Insertion Attacks 216 Avoiding Comment Attacks Using Nofollow 220 Sanitizing User Input 225 Requesting Human Input 230 301 Redirect Attacks 237 Content Theft 239 On Buying Links 240 Digital Point Co-op, Link Vault 240 Summary 241 Chapter 9: Sitemaps 243 Traditional Sitemaps 243 Search Engine Sitemaps 244 Using Google Sitemaps 245 Using Yahoo! Sitemaps 247 Informing Google about Updates 247 The Sitemaps.org Standard Protocol 248 Generating Sitemaps Programmatically 249 Summary 255 Chapter 10: Link Bait 257 Hooking Links 258 Informational Hooks 258 News Story Hooks 258 Humor/Fun Hooks 258 Evil Hooks 259 Traditional Examples of Link Bait 259 Interactive Link Bait: Put on Your Programming Hardhat! 259 Case Study: Fortune Cookies 260 Summary 264 Chapter 11: Cloaking, Geo-Targeting, and IP Delivery 265 About Cloaking, Geo-Targeting, and IP Delivery 265 More on Geo-Targeting 266 A Few Words on JavaScript Redirect Cloaking 267 The Ethical Debate on Cloaking 267 Cloaking Dangers 268 Using the Meta Noarchive Tag 268 Implementing Cloaking 269 Cloaking Case Studies 290 Rendering Images as Text 290 Redirecting Excluded Content 291 Feeding Subscription-Based Content Only to Spiders 291 Implementing Geo-Targeting 291 Summary 298 Chapter 12: Foreign Language SEO 299 Foreign Language Optimization Tips 299 Indicating Language and Region 300 Server Location and Domain Name 300 Include the Address of the Foreign Location if Possible 301 Dealing with Accented Letters (Diacritics) 301 Foreign Language Spamming 305 Summary 306 Chapter 13: Coping with Technical Issues 307 Unreliable Web Hosting or DNS 307 Changing Hosting Providers 308 Cross-Linking 309 SEO-Aware Split Testing 310 Detecting Broken Links 312 Summary 318 Chapter 14: Case Study: Building an E-Commerce Store 319 Establishing the Requirements 319 Implementing the Product Catalog 320 Summary 350 Chapter 15: Site Clinic: So You Have a Web Site? 351 1. Creating Sitemaps 352 2. Creating News Feeds 352 3. Fixing Duplication in Titles and Meta Tags 352 4. Getting Listed in Reputable Directories 352 5. Soliciting and Exchanging Relevant Links 353 6. Buying Links 353 7. Creating Link Bait 353 8. Adding Social Bookmarking Functionality 354 9. Starting a Blog and/or Forum 354 10. Dealing with a Pure Flash or AJAX Site 354 11. Preventing Black Hat Victimization 354 12. Examining Your URLs for Problems 355 13. Looking for Duplicate Content 355 14. Eliminating Session IDs 355 15. Tweaking On-Page Factors 355 Summary 356 Appendix A: Simple Regular Expressions 357 Glossary 389 Index 399


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