SEO - tips and tricks
Below are a list of articles that will help you with optimising your web pages for search engines.
Making sure your images are optimised is easy and an essential part of basic search engine optimisation. Read my article for the the low down.
There are many types of spam, cloaking, hidden text, keyword stuffing, blog spamming the list is endless. I have noted down a few of the most prolific ones for reference.
Once you have optimised your site and have improved the rankings on a few search terms this is the time to plan your on going optimisation campaign!
Optimisation tips for Yahoo and Flash websites. Making sure those .swf files are found, indexed, ranking and working for you.
Looking through the guide lines that Yahoo have produced it gives a small look into what Yahoo are looking for.
When looking for a link to your website, you may run into dead links, link redirects or even linkrot (not as bad as it sounds). You can check up on your linking terms here.
When deciding where to place your keywords on the page, be sure to have a look this quick checklist of prime seo spots on the page, and gain true search engine creaminess.
There are special commands that can be used when searching on Google to find out valuable information such as backlinks, pages indexed and the cached version. This article hopes to bring these Google operators to your attention.
Here are my top ten seo tips for optimising your web site for the search engines, in no particular order.
Just as Google can peform special searches through commnads, so can Yahoo. Here are the Yahoo operators. Also, check out Yahoo's search tool
When designing and building your webpages you may have large amounts of JavaScript and CSS in the code of the page. Here I explain why it is a good idea to strip the code out and reference it from the head section of the page.
Here are a few things to remember when building the amount of links that point to your site.
A robots text file is used to inform search engine spiders what parts of your website they can access. If used properly it can stop from crawling private directories such as the cgi-bin and the image folder.
Meta tags. What ones should you use when designing your site. Only a few should be used and a few that should be avoided.
If you have products that you would like to sell in the English market, here are a few tips for you to follow.
Learn about the Mirago paid for inclusion directory and how it works. Details on their trusted feed programes and PPC services.
There are may seo forums that offer a wealth of information - there are only a few though that you trust to give the latest and most up to date technical information relating to search engines.
Internal link structure is just as important as external link building. Your own sites links are easy to manipulate to suit your own needs. This article should help.
This page will be of help to all those looking to get into SEO.