Findability Blog of Jake Beachboard

Lets face it they stink at art critiques because they happen to be blind…and def…but smart to boot. So if you happen to have a image heavy page or even any images at all you really need to help these guys out. This not only is a great practice when working on SEO but its a practice that should be done no matter what.

What Im talking about is adding some simple elements to your page elements like height, width, alt, title, very simple but it can make a whole difference when you put up your pictures and google has no clue what keywords go with them.

Custom 404 pages can be really helpfull or really hurtfull. Most times people just hit them and walk away looking for something else or poking about the rest of the site. Sometimes they are looking for something that doesn’t exist, other times its because we have messed up linking a file and the server have no idea what we are looking for.

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