Seo metatags and Gzip compression

Schryvers

Hello, im workin on my vanilla to get a better seo score, vanilla 2.1.3 on ozonetheme 2.1

Im workin right now on all images get an Alt title but after that i have some questions;

1. the meta tags or tagging words displayed in the result of my seoscan are like "October" and "View", and those words are nothing to do with my content, so the seo says i need to get rid of them...

2. Seo scan says my loading time takes too long (first loading: 7sec and repeated loading in 2.8sec...) they say about Gzippin files, i took a look at the gzip plugins here, but they all out of date (latest from may 2012), so i dont know if thats working right because i dont know anything about gzip compressions..

Does anybody have an solution for maybe both questions?

Thanks.

Bleistivt

Forget SEO scans. All they do is recommend outdated tricks, which are obviously way too simple to "trick" the search engines nowadays.

Try focusing on a great user experience and good content, it's the only way to increase your ranking. Vanilla already makes use of SEO best practices by default.

Speed, on the other hand, is a valid concern as it directly affects the user experience.
You will probably need to do more than just enable gzip compression to cut down the 7 seconds, but you can enable it in your htaccess.

This is how the HTML5 boilerplate does it, just copy over these rules:
https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/d7976c/dist/.htaccess#L663-L741

Bleistivt

Yes, everything in the selection I have posted. There might be a little more Content Types matched than are needed for Vanilla, but the HTML5 Boilerplate is widely used, so I'd just follow best practices and use that.

Inspect the Content-Encoding header in your web console to check if gzip is active:

Bleistivt

Forget SEO scans. All they do is recommend outdated tricks, which are obviously way too simple to "trick" the search engines nowadays.

Try focusing on a great user experience and good content, it's the only way to increase your ranking. Vanilla already makes use of SEO best practices by default.

Speed, on the other hand, is a valid concern as it directly affects the user experience.
You will probably need to do more than just enable gzip compression to cut down the 7 seconds, but you can enable it in your htaccess.

This is how the HTML5 boilerplate does it, just copy over these rules:
https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/d7976c/dist/.htaccess#L663-L741

Schryvers

Do i need to copy all of the code into my htaccess? Thats gzip?

Bleistivt

Yes, everything in the selection I have posted. There might be a little more Content Types matched than are needed for Vanilla, but the HTML5 Boilerplate is widely used, so I'd just follow best practices and use that.

Inspect the Content-Encoding header in your web console to check if gzip is active:

Schryvers

Gzip is on and lowered 30% of my total size! Like it alot.