Revision history: SEO gold miners log book
Version 1.01: A Living Document with a last Revision Date of 7/1/04 by Mike Randolph, Shopping Cart Guru.
7/1/2004 – Initial revision note: Typos and all the Original Shopping Cart Search Engine Optimization FAQ is ready for some search engine optimization. A crude archived version of this document BEFORE optimization is available here. The word count in Microsoft word is currently showing over 2500 words, too large for a single optimized page. Considering a two keyword set occurring at a frequency of 10% that’s a lot of repeats. This document is going to be broken into multiple documents each with the base theme of ‘Shopping Cart Search Engine Optimization’ with sub-themes including the popular variations of the base search theme.
7/1/2004 – 1.01 SEO note: While Microsoft Word is a great document editor unfortunately its html output is overly complex resulting in really big files. Using MS Word’s (Office 2000-XP) save as HTML feature this document is over 110k a truly excessive size for the amount of content for sure. Using the save as HTML (filtered option) generated a more respectable 63k file, however a nicely formatted file of less than 37k was quickly produced using Macromedia Dream Weaver’s handy clean up Word HTML feature.
7/1/2004 – 1.02 SEO note: Finally we have a cleanly formatted file to analyze, we’ll see how it goes in the next update of The Original Shopping Cart Search Engine Optimization FAQ.
7/1/2004 – 1.03 SEO note: Web Position Gold tells us there is a lot of work left to go! Below are reports based on the keywords ‘Search Engine Optimization’ The very first issue to resolve is the page length of the document which was 2904 words before this note. Web Position Gold is suggesting a page length of between 584 and 980 words so we’ll break the document into 4 or 5 pages that with the standard headers and footers of our site will be about the right length. The headers and footers of our site will also have a dramatic effect on the keyword densities of the final pages. Since the headers and footers of your website are used on though out a website on nearly every page they are very important!
