All You Need For Seo (search Engine Optimization)

Webnauts

Feb 20 2006, 02:47 PM

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SEO is an acronym for "search engine optimization". It is the process of analyzing your potential design and problems for search engines indexing and positioning. In other words, making your web site and its content attractive, relevant and visible to search engines and web searchers.

There is nothing worse than having a beautiful web site with excellent written content, though you still lose traffic or you even keep potential visitors away, while your site cannot be found.

Before you begin optimizing your pages for Search Engines, consider that the following search engine optimization techniques are SPAM!

* automatically generated doorway pages
* cloaking and false redirects
* keyword stuffing
* hidden text or hidden links
* pages loaded with irrelevant words
* duplicated content on multiple pages
* misspelling of well-known web sites
* unrelated and centralized link farms
* other methods that try to trick search engines

If you use one of the above techniques, you might get short term results, but it's most likely that your site will be banned from search engines, and therefore you will put your business at severe risk.-

Good luck with Search Engine Optimization,

John S. Britsios
Web Architect & Trainer

SEO Code of Ethics
* Search Engine Optimization Code of Ethics http://www.bruceclay.com/web_ethics.htm

Search Engines Guidelines for Webmasters
* Google Webmaster Guidelines http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
* Yahoo! Search Site Guidelines http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.html
* MSN Guidelines for Webmasters http://search.msn.com.my/webmasters/guidelines.aspx
* Ask Jeeves Guidelines for Webmasters http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/policy.html
* Open Directory Editorial Guidelines http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html
* Zeal Guidelines Overview http://www.zeal.com/guidelines/overview.jhtml
* Overture's SiteMatch™ Content Guidelines http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/sm_gl.jhtml

Search Engines Information for Webmasters
* Google Information for Webmasters http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html

SEO Tutorials
* Basics of search engine optimisation http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/2005...e_optimisation/
* Website Promotion Tutorials by instantPROMOTION http://www.instantposition.com/website-promotion/

SEO TIPS
* SEO Toolkit 21 part guide to getting a top-10 listing on Google and Yahoo http://www.rlrouse.com/SEO.html
* Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines http://www.highrankings.com/tentips.htm

Free Online SEO Tools
* instantPROMOTION SEO Tools http://www.instantposition.com/free_tools.cfm
* SEO Scanner http://www.webmasterbrain.com/
* Keyword Density & Prominence http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
* Meta Tag Analyzer http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
* Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
* Web Site Analysis http://www.sitesolutions.com/analysis.asp
* Free Robots.txt Generator http://www.mcanerin.com/search-engine/robots-txt.htm
* Robots.txt syntax checker http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html
* Robots.txt Validator http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/robotcheck.cgi
* Google Banned Tool http://www.123promotion.co.uk/tools/googlebanned.php

Free SEO Desktop Tools
* WebCEO http://www.webceo.com/
* Good Keywords http://www.goodkeywords.com/
* Free Monitor for Google http://www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor-query.htm

Web site submission
* Google http://www.google.com/addurl/
* Yahoo! https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=s...om/free/request
* MSN http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

Search Engine Spammer Reporting
* Overture, AllTheWeb feedback@Overture.com
* AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/help/contact/search
* Google, AOL http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
* Ask Jeeves http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/contact_tuwyt.php
* DMOZ / ODP http://report-abuse.dmoz.org/
* Lycos http://help.lycos.com/watchdog/watchdog_1_help.asp
* Inktomi, MSN reportspam@inktomi.com
* Teoma ask@teoma.com
* Yahoo reportsearchspam@yahoo-inc.com

SEO Discussion Forums
* Webnauts Net http://forums.webnauts.net
* Digitalpoint http://forums.digitalpoint.com
* Google Community http://www.googlecommunity.com/
* Search Engine Forums http://www.searchengineforums.com/

SEO Joke
* A declaration of the abbreviation SPAM:
S = SITES
P = PLACED
A = ABOVE
M = MINE

-post seems to be plag from other source.

ebula

Mar 3 2006, 09:10 PM

Few things I would like to add on SEO:

There are few points one must have to take into account while designing a website for better search visibility. I arranged them in the order of importance:

1. Title of the main page More descriptive it is, better are the chances of your site to get indexed. Say you want to sell camera. Your page title should contain camera as a word.

2.Link popularity If you have 10 sites and a link back to the page yuu want to optimize, if there are clicks from original site back to your new site, it will be indexed faster. Since Windoswa comes preinstalled with a 'official spyware -alexa' alexa.com knows what yuor are browsing. (beware!)

3. Body text: ofcourse its important, what is in the cache of search engine determines, what to show to a person searching.

4. Domain name: If you have registered, .com/.org/.net chances are more to get indexed.
Redirects will have adverse effect.
I tried to put my own free hosted sites in google sitemap submission, it says you to put a blank html file, specific to your gmail account in the root of the site. Which is not possible in case of a redirected page. So forget a speedy submission.

5. keywords and their proximity: you can put as many as 1000 characters in keywords, separated by comma. there should not be repetitions and no bold/italics or special characters.

5. Metadata: in header of every page, post title for that page, and in metadata, the infoarmation about that page. It will guarantee for the bots to index your pages properly. I feel, if you dont tag your page metadata, sometimes search engines will index only first page. If I am wrong, someone please correct me.

6. folder names and description in robot.txt It is must to put a robot.txt at every directory in your site or the directories coming as your subdomains. A robot.txt reads generally as

CODE

First line as: user-agent: Mediapartners-Google* or simply * (wildchar to allow all)
Second line as: Disallow /cgi-bin (or the directories that you dont wish to get indexed).

There has to be links to your directory pages in any of the html pages in root, else, search bot will not go inside these directories, even if you haven't blolcked them in robot.txt.

Once you have finished, submit your url to yahoo, msn, Dmoz directory, google as a simple site submission.
For commercial purpose, yahoo has speedy submission process, they will charge you something around $200-300.

I however wont advice to use programs such as web-CEO to automatically submit your site to 7000 search engines at once, because there are high chance for you to get banned.

If anybody has done this automatic submission, please correct me.

Good luck to those who want to have a 'Search presence"

Lyon2

Mar 4 2006, 10:27 PM

For free website submission, this is by far the best place:

http://www.freewebsubmission.com

You can see there all the direct links to more then 50 important search engines to add your url (website adress).

And, you can submitt your site in their submission script to lots of search engines.

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All You Need For Seo (search Engine Optimization) - Article and Resources list

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