Optimizing your site for search engine
Jandrick from Live Search Webmaster Center has recommend some of the wonderful tips that we may need to take into a consideration in order to optimize our web site for the search engine.
Here are some of his tips for all the webmaster:
- Canonicalization/Normalization. That means exposing URL per piece of content to the engines.
- Add or remove the trailing /
- http://tech.david-cheong.com/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com
- Remove the index or default
- http://tech.david-cheong.com/default.aspx TO http://tech.david-cheong.com
- http://tech.david-cheong.com/en/us/default.aspx TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/en/us
- Avoid CamelCase — convert your text to lower case
- http://tech.david-cheong.com/Google/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/google
- Remove query string variables or rewrite to readable URLs
- http://tech.david-cheong.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99&displaylang=en TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/downloads/en/family/ab99
- Remove Port Numbers
- http://tech.david-cheong.com:8080/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com
- Avoid exposing secure HTTPS version
- https://tech.david-cheong.net/en/us/ TO http://tech.david-cheong.com/en/us
There are still a lot of tips given by Jandrick at the Microsoft Webmaster central blog