Webmasters:Design of site for easing accessible and indexable content

Here are some of nice designing patterns recommended by Google Webmaster’s blog and some of our tips that makes your site easily accessible , crawlable and indexable.

Always Use “alt” tag in your images

                                                       In hurry of writing posts on your blog or creating pages you forgot to put the “alt” tag in the “img” attribute.This may result in your image not being indexed or not being shown for the relevant content.Also it will be more easier for your user to understand what the image is all about.So always use the “alt” tag with you images.Remember putting a relevant text is more important than putting the “alt” text.So if you wrote a post on Ubuntu Launched then its screenshot image should be something like this

<img src=”http://indiandevs.com/…/something.jpg” alt=”Ubuntu 8.04 Screenshot” />

Also do go to your webmaster’s account and enable “Enhanced image search”.

                                                         Web sites with highly interactive visual designs often provide all of the content for a given story as a printer-friendly version. Generated from the same content as the interactive version, these are an excellent source of high-quality content for both the Googlebot as well as visually impaired users unable to experience all of the interactive features of a web site. But all too often, these printer-friendly versions remain hidden behind scripted links of the form:

<a onclick=”javascript:print(…)” href=”#”>Print</a>

Creating actual URLs for these printer-friendly versions and linking to them via plain HTML anchors will vastly improve the quality of content that gets crawled.

<a href=”http://example.com/page1-printer-friendly.html”>Print</a>

                                                        Although with the increasing interactivity and for great looks of site and for better stats ,webmasters now prefer to use Javascript to link to URLs.For e.g in order to know how many times a link was clicked webmasters create a hyperlink with “href” value as “#” and “onclick” tag associated with some function.This is harmful for your SEO and google bot also wont be able to index the URL.It will also increase the time of your site loading for slow internet connection users!

                                                        Other then using simple HTML hyperlinks you should also put relevant text in between the “<a>” and “</a>” .This is better for google bot.

Have a Nice Day and Enjoy!