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8 Useful SEO Techniques
Friday, March 7th, 2008
8 Useful SEO Techniques Every Webmaster Should KnowBy Titus Hoskins (c) 2008
Every webmaster should have some basic understanding of these simple SEO techniques if they want to achieve Top Rankings for their site. The more you know about these Search Engine Optimization techniques; the better your web pages will fare in the different search engines, [...]
FAQ’s and Glossaries
Friday, August 3rd, 2007FAQ's and Glossaries can really help in the battle of Search Engine Optimization of your website. It great because you get to list each individual keyword phrase that best describes your work or subject of your website.
By placing all these keywords with definitions on a single web page it offers the search engine lots of [...]
Web Design Mistake#5 - the redirect
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007You must be careful with this technique. Redirection can be very useful, but at the same time if done improperly can ruin a page ranking.
The safest way to redirect to another web page is using a server side 301 redirect in the htaccess file. Depending on the search engine, the results will be evaluated based [...]
Web Design Mistake #4 - Pop Up Pages
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007I hate automatic pop up pages but the search engines seem to ignore them. I do not see any indication that Javascript initiated auto pop up web pages are flagged by the search engine spiders, so I feel it may not impact a website rankings.
More than anything else most visitors hate them. That fact alone [...]
Website Design Mistake #2 - Too many images
Saturday, May 5th, 2007Too many images and not enough text will never get a web site found.
You must have text on the web page for the search engines to digest. Images offer nothing for the search engine spiders to read. Although the use of image alt tags are recommended for all images, the alt tag does not carry [...]
Website Design Mistakes #1 - Frames
Friday, May 4th, 2007This is the biggest website design mistake that will effect the marketing and search engine ranking of almost any website - FRAMES!
The search engine spiders will hit the main frame usually the index.html and see nothing - just the html code on the page and move on. The core information is usually on the pages [...]
Website Marketing Tips #17 - robots.txt
Saturday, April 28th, 2007What is a robots.txt file?
A robots.txt file basically tells the search engine spiders what not to look at. Which directories to ignore or skip.
The robots.txt file is locate in the root directory of your web site. Example: http://www.yourwebsite.com/robots.txt
How do you create a robots.txt file?
The robots.txt file is a plain text file. This is the basic [...]
Website Marketing Tips #16 - Image Size
Thursday, April 26th, 2007The size of your web page images can have a profound effect on your web pages and your rankings. Slow loading web pages can effect your visitors by waiting too long and just closing your page - never seeing your message. Slow loading page will effect the web spiders as well. The search engine spiders [...]
Website Marketing Tips #15 - W3C compliance
Thursday, April 26th, 2007W3C is the organization that develops and provides the guidelines for the web code that we all use. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools)". They are the governing body and main resource for HMTL, CSS, etc. The resources are available on line at http://www.w3.org/
Checking for W3C compliance [...]
Website Marketing Tips #14 - Probably the most important
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Good Readable Content!
Content is the most important factor in your ranking. Writing unique readable information is more important that any other factor, although the other factors help in the ranking process.
Poorly written content on a web page will do little in helping you get found on the web or impressing your visitors. It's [...]
