1)Is a certain way of coding using HTML better in terms of SEO?
I'm not an expert on that but I guess not really. Except some things:
> Having unique, accurate page titles
> Using the meta tags
description and
keywords. Make sure the description is related to the actual page content and not general across all site.
> Using alt tags on images
2) What exactly is the difference btw XHTML and HTML? is one better than the other in terms of SEO?
XHTML is a "cleaner, stricter" version of HTML.
(W3Schools)
It has these differences:
> All code (tags,..) must be in lowercase
> All elements must be closed and properly nested
> check the
w3schools tutorial on XHTML
No, I think not.
If your code has no errors or so it doesn't matter if it's HTML or XHTML.
3) Online tools say that my site: http://www.rblog.net16.net/
is NOT indexed. But when I type in the URL it appears on google, even though its not the first entry, even though the search should produce one unique result....
Is there a reason this occurs?
I've searched for your site and I couldn't find it.. :(
Yap, sorry, I found it on Google.. I don't know what's going on with your site. Try to use webmaster tools.
I recommend you submit your site to
Bing (and
Google.)If you don't yet use Google Webmaster tools, I recommend using it.
4)It appears the google robots have not crawled the site in ages since I have changed the description and title meta tags. I just wanted to confirm (as I have seen this question in another forum) that I DO NOT have to submit my site to google after I have edited the meta tags?
That doesn't make sense.. Of course you don't. Google will comeback to your site regularly.
Make use of the Google Webmaster tools to see what's going on with your site.
hope I helped. :)