Comments on: Hammering the SEO about Oranges and Sardines: Amy Sillman http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/11/20/hammering-the-seo-about-oranges-and-sardines-amy-sillman/ How the best knowledge gets to everybody to learn Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Keri Morgret http://www.goldenswamp.com/2008/11/20/hammering-the-seo-about-oranges-and-sardines-amy-sillman/comment-page-1/#comment-61189 Keri Morgret Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:10:13 +0000 http://www.goldenswamp.com/?p=1573#comment-61189 Judy, I must respectfully disagree with this post. Yes, the meta keywords tag is missing from the html. However, little if any attention is paid to the keywords tag via the search engines. If you scroll down in the source code, past the navigation, you will see the text from the web page is included in the source code, and can be indexed. Also, when you're on the page itself, you can Select All (Ctrl-A) and see the text highlighted as text, not an image. The SEO mistake I see that they made is not making 301 redirects from the old URL to the new URL. If you search "Oranges and Sardines" hammer on Google, a page about the exhibit is the first result. However, that page has a 404 not found error. What the museum should do is have a list of the old pages and a list of the new pages, and put in a permanent redirect (301) from the old URL to the new URL. This would tell the search engines that the page has moved, the new page would get indexed, and anybody coming from a page that links to the old page would get redirected to the new page. Judy,

I must respectfully disagree with this post. Yes, the meta keywords tag is missing from the html. However, little if any attention is paid to the keywords tag via the search engines.

If you scroll down in the source code, past the navigation, you will see the text from the web page is included in the source code, and can be indexed. Also, when you’re on the page itself, you can Select All (Ctrl-A) and see the text highlighted as text, not an image.

The SEO mistake I see that they made is not making 301 redirects from the old URL to the new URL. If you search
“Oranges and Sardines” hammer
on Google, a page about the exhibit is the first result. However, that page has a 404 not found error. What the museum should do is have a list of the old pages and a list of the new pages, and put in a permanent redirect (301) from the old URL to the new URL. This would tell the search engines that the page has moved, the new page would get indexed, and anybody coming from a page that links to the old page would get redirected to the new page.

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