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Robots.txt

by slayerment UR10 50 weeks 6 days ago

The Robots.txt file can be a great way to make the most out of your link equity and keep the search engines on the most popular and relevant pages.

Broken Links

by oldsarge UR6 1 year 6 weeks ago

Broken links can hurt a web site's rankings as they can confuse a search engine and interfere with the overall link architecture.

Submitting a site over and over does nothing

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

I don't know why, but it seems like it always comes up again that submitting a site to search engines again and again will actually help it get indexed quicker, or help it rank better.

Site Submission

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

Submitting a site to search engines can be a first step for a lot of new web sites. The search engines eventually crawl the site within a few weeks.

Flash

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

There are usually two different contexts of Flash on a web site:

1. Full Flash web site
2. Flash banner

Allow me to hit on both:

1. Full Flash Web Site

One keyword topic per page

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

It is generally a good idea to try to win one keyword phrase with one page.

Stop blogging on other people's domain names!

by slayerment UR10 1 year 7 weeks ago

I see it all the time and it really makes no sense to me - people set up a blog on Blogger, Wordpress or some other domain that offers a free blogging service.

Link Bait

by slayerment UR10 1 year 7 weeks ago

Link bait can be one of the best way to gather lots of new quality links quickly. The best part about link bait is that it can be done with relatively little time and work.

Use CSS instead of frames

by slayerment UR10 1 year 7 weeks ago

Digg

by slayerment UR10 1 year 7 weeks ago

Getting a site dugg on Digg can be a great way to boost traffic temporarily as the Digg web site usually provides a considerable amount of traffic to your niche.

Yahoo Directory Link

by Charles UR8 1 year 8 weeks ago

A link from the Yahoo directory is just about the best link money can buy. For the fee of $300 a year you will receive a link back to your website in the appropriate category.

The payoff for title tags can be huge

by Charles UR8 1 year 8 weeks ago

One of the easiest and most beneficial things you can do for SEO is make sure your title tags greatly match the keywords you are going for and the page that it is representing.

External CSS and Javascript

by Charles UR8 1 year 8 weeks ago

For usability and SEO it is usually best to keep CSS and Javascript files in an external document that is called from the page.

Keyword Proximity

by john UR6 1 year 9 weeks ago

The proximity of keywords in certain page elements can have an overall effect on how a web site ranks for its keywords.

Match your title tags and H1 tags

by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

I have noticed that matching your title tags with your H1 tags works very well with all search engines. It also makes a lot of logical sense IMO.