SEOMatrix LLC Blog: Your Daily Ethical Search Engine Marketing Treats

The internet is evolving at an exponential rate and to keep up with the dramatic changes of internet, so must Search Engine Optimization. As of late, I have been delving deeper into my research in the area of interest known as “Clean Code.” This element of SEO is quite broad and can be very confusing. Fortunately, there are several guides available all over the internet that can assist you in a nearly step-by-step process.

The back end code of a website is critical for the search engine’s algorithms to index your page properly. The code, despite the language needs to “clean,” meaning it has to be efficient, readable and organized. You can check out www.w3cschools.com for a plethora of information on how to write code for the latest standards.

Eliminating useless tags, and writing code in “shorthand” are two simple ways for you to clean up the back end code of your site. instead of writing <margin = 10 pixels>

<margin = 10 pixels>

<margin = 10 pixels>

<margin = 10 pixels>

to sepcify the borders of a table one can write:

<mar = 10px>

10px

10px

10px>

This not only makes the code easier to read for humans, but also search engines.