Category Archives: Code

Google’s Unavailable_After Meta Tag

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 14, 2007. Filed under Code. No comments.

Google is planning to introduce a new meta tag to deal with time sensitive information on websites.  The new tag -dubbed “unavailable_after” – was announced by  Dan Crow, director of crawl systems at Google at a recent SEMNE conference. The “unavailable_after” tag will for instance allow webmasters to tell Google when a particular page on their site will no [...]

Word Press Title Tag Optimization

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 2, 2007. Filed under Code, Open Source Software, SEO. No comments.

Here a quick tip to help you optimise your Word Press title tag so that it becomes more search engine friendly. Login to your site using your favourite ftp application. Open the header.php file, it can be found in root > wp-content > themes > your theme. Find: <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title> Replace with  : <title><?php [...]

Permanent (301) Redirects – Managing the Google Index

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 2, 2007. Filed under Code, SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.

Have you heard of 301 (permanent) redirects?  If you haven’t let me explain what they are to you. A 301 redirect is a tool available at your disposal as a webmaster that allows you to manage your indexed pages within the major search engines including Google. Let me give you an example: 1- You have [...]

Structure of an HTML page

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 1, 2007. Filed under Code. No comments.

The basic structure of an HTML document according to W3C is as follows: HTML version information The HTML element The document head The HEAD element The TITLE element The title attribute Meta data Specifying meta data The META element Meta data profiles The document body The BODY element Element identifiers: the id and class attributes Block-level [...]

To Validate or not to Validate

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on June 24, 2007. Filed under Code. No comments.
google w3c validation results

To Validate or not to Validate…That is the question. Does your HTML code validate? … But first, do you know what valid HTML means? Let me start by explaining what Valid HTML means. Validating HTML documents (web documents)  is conforming them to the W3C HTML and XHTML standards. So what is the W3C you may ask.  [...]