ou know all that extra 3. Clean up your html and check
time you have to work on your links. You want the bots to
Search Engine Optimization? have smooth sailing through your
[A little sarcasm there] site. Use the tools on W3c.org
Actually, I tried to put together and have a real person check them
a list of quick things you can do over too.
that will help you move a little
higher in your Google or Yahoo 4. Get a few more links to your
results. site. Make them relevant and at
least the same pagerank as you.
1. Get listed in more search
engines. There are tons of them 5. Make your page filenames
out there. There are also many descriptive and keyword rich.
free services that will help you Naming your page new_page_1.html
get listed. Or just set aside is wasting an opportunity to do
some time to get it done some SEO. Use names that describe
yourself. Here is a free search the content and keep the keywords
engine submission site that will flowing.
let you cycle through the top 100
search engines and get your site 6. Check your Title tags. You can
submitted. use 90 - 100 characters in the
title, so add some keywords. We
2. Get listed in more know Google looks at them, and so
directories. Again, there are a do many more search engines.
lot of them out there. Look for
higher pagerank directories. 7. Check your ALT tags.
Improvingrank.com has some listed Searchbots can't see pictures.
by pagerank. Look on the left Make sure you have ALT tags on
side of the homepage. all of your pictures, and make
sure they are descriptive and
keyword rich. 10. Put together a text based
sitemap and put it on your site.
8. Rewrite your URL (anchor) There's a lot of navigation that
tags. Good anchor tags (the text spiders can't understand, such as
between the http: and /a tags) flash, forms, java and
reinforce the message and key javascript. Putting together a
words of your site. text-based sitemap gives the bots
a way to navigate around the
9. Go post in a few forums and site.
put your website in your
signature. Forums are a great Fifteen minutes every couple of
place to put one way links. And days will make a huge difference
you can help somebody out at the in getting your rank higher.
same time.
About the Author:
Matt DeAngelis runs AffiliateBlog.com. Matt is the former CTO of Modem Media, a pioneer in the Internet ad space. As a foot soldier in the Internet revolution, Matt devised the technology behind many of the most successful ad campaigns of the time.
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