“SEO Best Practices” Guide Released by SEOmoz

SEOmoz has recently released their SEO best practices guide.This is for the first time, they used the actual data to back up the best practices. Some of the previous best practices based on the data have also been changed.

The guide covers following SEO elements:

• Title Tag Format
• The Usefulness of H1 Tags
• The Usefulness of Nofollow
• The Usefulness of the Canonical Tag
• The Use of Alt text with Images
• The Use of the Meta Keywords tag
• The Use of Parameter Driven URLs
• The Usefulness of Footer Links
• The Use of Javascript and Flash on Websites
• The Use of 301 Redirects
• Blocking pages from Search Engines
• Google Search Wiki's Affect on Rankings
• The Affect of Negative Links from "Bad Link Neighborhoods"
• The Importance of Traffic on Rankings

Like other SEO guides, it also covers most of the topics, but there is always a room for debate.

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