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Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
SEO Guide
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Introduction
What to consider
Critical items
Accessibility
URL
Title tag
META tags
Search friendly text
Use of a Site Map
Page ranking criteria
Site ranking criteria
Detrimental factors
Online test
Webpublishing at Swinburne
Page Ranking Criteria
High
Title tag
Keyword use in document text
Links to page from site-internal pages
(interconnecting of pages improves page ranking, eg. Consistent use of left hand menu)
Medium
Uniqueness of text (don’t repeat the same text on many pages)
Related term use (eg. If the page deals with water management also use the phrase ground water)
External Links in your page
Low
Age of document
Meta tags (more important for getting people to click on a search result description rather than for getting high rankings)
Usage of h1, h2, h3
Text in Alt/img title tags
Important when img is clickable
Keyword in URL