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Cheryl Hardy, Melbourne, Australia. I have been actively involved in search engine optimization, web analytics and web accessibility issues for the past 10 years. Working on government websites for the past 13 years, I am keen to promote best practice in seo, web analytics and web accessibility mainly in the government web area.
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Google search snippets
Google has announced that they will now be making use of anchor tags and section headings in their search snippets, displaying them where it makes sense in their search results.
For most search results, Google shows you a few lines of text to give you an idea of what the page is about — we call this a “search snippet.” Recently, we’ve enhanced the search snippet with two new features that make it easier to find information buried deep within a page.
Normally, a search snippet shows how a page, as a whole, relates to a your query by excerpting content that appears near and around where your query terms show on the page. But what if only one section of the page is relevant to your search?
That’s where these new features can help, by providing links within the snippet to relevant sections of the page, making it faster and easier to find what you’re looking for.
To make this happen you need to ensure:
1. you use descriptive headings for your sections, especially in long multi-topic html documents. Use for example, Victorian Government web 2.0 initiatives, NOT Section 1.3.
2. you use a table of contents at the top of the page which uses anchor text to link to your section headings.
3. you don’t forget the anchor text for your section headings.
A Search Engine Land article by Barry Schwartz shows examples of how descriptive headings can be used in search snippets.
More reasons to use appropriate keywords that your searchers are using in the text of your documents, rather than bureaucratic policy speak.
Enjoy!
Posted in Search Engine Optimization
Tagged Anchor text, Google, Keywords, Search snippets, SEO, Table of contents