What is the best code to build a website in for it to be readable to search engine spiders, and why?

Christopher B · by **Christopher B** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:40 am

I am sourcing a cost effective web development company and want to ensure that the basics of my site will be constructed properly for SEO.

The Little Pilgrim Who Could · by **The Little Pilgrim Who Could** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:43 am

HTML pages are easily made viewable (or not) to spiders - the "code" used to build the website has little connection.

[edit] Googledwithonekick has pretty much hit the nail on the head :-)

Raymond W · by **Raymond W** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:46 am

Good Meta Tags
best Contents
Inbound Link structure
Sitemap,robots,etc..

googledwithonekick · by **googledwithonekick** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:02 am

Errm, no, Meta Tags are practically ignored by the main search engines (google/yahoo/msn).

If by "code" the mean ASP/PHP/JSP..so on, it makes no difference, search engines can't read server-side scripts, like your browser they just see the HTML and Text, they don't even care about the CSS.

Make a site with good readable content, content is all search engines care about.

sweetpink · by **sweetpink** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:59 pm

Just create a robots.txt file and allow robots to visit your site. Also, linking from blogs, means more spiders visits!!