SEO = Search Engine Optimisation
Have you ever wondered whether there was a quick and easy way to get your site noticed by all the search engines around the world, and hence get your site to become more popular?
Well there are several methods, first is simple, just post good content.
Second, post comments on other peoples blogs which will in turn get rooted back to you and hence connect and crawl you up the list (but try to be nice at the same time).
And third is to post your site to all the major search engines, by letting them know you exist you create instant word-of-mouth and jump faster up the ladder.
Below is a list to help get in touch with the big search providers, better than a postcard.
- Microsoft Live Search URL Submission
- Microsoft MSN Search Free Submission
- Yahoo Submit Your Site
- Google Webmaster Tools
- AOL Sitemap Submission : http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www. (your site) /sitemap.xml
All services are free at time of writing.
More Tips
another tip is to use the Box Model and put everything in div tags, having your main content at the start of the page and everything else below, like sidebars, header, footer, etc.
so when the bots crawl your page the get right to the content first and don’t get confused of side-tracked by anything else.
also include meta-tags, keywords, use the DocType (strict / transitional), always helps, anything to make a bot’s life easier. also a robots.txt file to tell them where they should start and a sitemap.xml to give them a roadmap of your site.
