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Here's what to do to help get listed in search engines
08/28/2007
Category: Old News
Here's an excerpt from an article that was posted April 3rd, 2005
1. Make sure you have have something to read on your website.
What? Something to read, you might ask.
What about all of those cool special effects and bouncing images?
Search engines don't have eyes and can only index text and follow links.
2. Have links that a search engine can follow. Using images as links
will be overlooked. Using links with nice JavaScript effects will also
be overlooked by search engines.
3. Key words and a description in your code is not enough. In
fact, they are rated about a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being most
important. However, be sure your written text content is relevant to
your keywords. Help it strengthen your keywords and have your keywords
in the text either before or after a link to another page, or both.
4. Use a descriptive an unique title tag for each page that has a t
least one or two key words. The title tag is rated highly by most all
search engines.
5. Use header tags in the body of your web page (in their proper
order:h1, h2, h3, etc) instead of just p or div or td for headlines and
blocks of text. Search engines see header tags as important, and if
used correctly with a few keywords, it can help push your rankings.
These are only 5 primers to get started and each can be explored in
depth. But remember, you are not only designing a web page for search
engines but also your target audience.
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