Monday, April 14, 2008

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
You might have heard of the word SEO mean search engine optimization. Google is major search engine and if you have a website, you can get more traffic on your site by adding it to search engines like google yahoo or msn. There are many ways to add your site to search engines and get crawled.
Search engine optimization is a set of methods aimed at improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings. The term also refers to an industry of consultants that carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients' sites. Search Engines display different kinds of listings in the search engine results pages (SERPs), including: pay-per-click advertisements, paid inclusion listings, and organic search results. SEO is primarily concerned with advancing the goals of a web site by improving the number and position of its organic search results for a wide variety of relevant keywords.
Available general search engines..
Alexa Internet
Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
Baidu (Chinese)
Exalead (French)
Gigablast
Google
Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
Sogou (Chinese)
Sohu (Chinese)
Yahoo! Search


Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines


How To Search Engine Optization
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1. Use exact key words, relted to your site. Add key words with large font( more than 14pix)


2. Add social services links in your ste to get more clicks to your site.


3.use validated HTML code


4.use HTML Markups


5. USe Rss, add Atl text for Images.


6.Use sitemap.


7.Use "title" property


8.Don't use Flash/Silverlight, javascript-based MENU.


9.Don't use inline css, use external stylesheets whenever possible
Don't use inline javascript, use external .js-files instead
Remove leave html-comments.


10.Don't forger " title-tag ".


11. Don't USE duplicate content.