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Old 06-18-2015, 06:57 PM   #8
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Default Re: [University - Search Engine Optimization] Help With SEO Project

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Stick to that up top for sure; this covers everything you'll want to do at a broad scope with on-site SEO for what you know right now. Everything for the most part that you listed in that top part of the post is correct, although the way you worded things about ALT attributes is a bit weird to me in that you typically only use ALT attributes for images in the event that they don't display properly (ALT tags are considered incorrectly used on links according to the HTML standard).

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> Use In- and Out-Links wisely, while In-Links from strong websites are worth much more than a dozen weak links
The one I quoted is exceptionally important and you'll likely get information about this, but the power of a link exponentially increases based off of the power of PR. It is often said that a link from a domain that has PR(x) is more powerful than numerous links from PR(x-1). I'm not sure what you've learned about PR and how it's judged, but you'll colloquially see PR referred to as a 10 point scale if you do some research, even though there's a more internally complex formula that is very obviously hidden within Google's patents and other complex documentation, haha.

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The content of this site is to provide a small "edutaining" advertisement source about our Major Information Science and Language Technology at our University, with videos and links to related pages (though we are not sure what we can use in our links section due to not having enough time to contact the respective owners). We were thinking about putting Google Scholar links, or any other link that offers books with a previewing function, to the books we have used so far in our lectures and provide a small taste of what the user might get himself into if he decides to actually study our major. Maybe I should also add an In-Depth overview of each of the courses in our major, having more content-heavy things for Google to crawl (Keywords would be e.g. Java, Python, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Organization, Informetrics, Bibliometrics, ...). Not entirely sure if I will have enough time for this though, since a lot of my free time goes towards my current programming internship course, where we have to program a Terraria clone.
This seems like a pretty goddamn tall task given the time situation you've got, my god.

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No idea what Panda is, we never talked about this anywhere in a lecture. I'll look into it.
In an academic setting, you don't have to worry all that much about Panda. The reason why I mentioned it to you is because it is one of the prominent Google algorithms that is used in the calculation of search engine rank placements, and with a refresh on the horizon, you might see better results for your page if you get them onto Google's index. It's not extremely vital for the purpose of your project, but it's more of an inside tip, I guess.

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I got around to finally starting making this thing around last week or so, just yesterday I finished all the stuff I wanted to achieve. I guess now I have some more ideas to implement, but I need to watch out not to get into trouble with time... I also need to prepare a presentation for this. Again, I'm not a professional, and I'll take what I can get for my mid-ranged level of dedication towards this so far.
Absolutely! You sound like you've got your head on pretty well with most of the basics. Keep doing what you're doing!
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