32 Most Important SEO Tips

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"Entireweb Newsletter * August 7, 2008 * ISSUE #464

32 Most Important SEO Tips

Following these simple tips will definitely boost your traffic and search engine rankings for free.

1. Make sure your site is not under construction, incomplete, with little or no unique content.

2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. Consider also submitting to other search engine but most of them are powered by these four leading search engines. Submit also your site to reputable high PR web directories, open directories, yellow pages and social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl, etc.

3. Submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com (sitemap for search engines usually in XML format)

4. Offer sitemap to your site visitors for easy page navigation. (sitemap for visitors in HTML format)

5. Create unique and rich content sites. Avoid duplicate content. Do not create multiple pages, sub-domains, domains, mirror sites or sites with different domain names but same content.

6. Check your keywords and make sure they are relevant and actually are contained in your site. Avoid keywords stuffing.

7. Use text instead of images in your content, links and important subjects.

8. Make your TITLE and ALT tags descriptive, simple and keyword rich. Avoid irrelevant and repeated keywords.

9. Title tag should be 60-80 characters maximum length.

10. Meta tag description should be 160-180 characters including spaces. (about 25-30 words)

11. Meta Tag keywords must be 15-20 words maximum.

12. Optimize Pages with Headings (H1, H2, H3..) containing your site's primary keywords.

13. Validate your CSS and HTML. Check for errors and broken links.

14. If your site contains dynamic pages(i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), make sure you use SEO friendly URLs. Search engines' spiders having difficulty indexing dynamic pages.

15. Maximum links per page must be fewer than 100. Avoid the risk of being flagged as link farm by search engines.

16. Use Lynx as text browser to check your site. (Lynx source distribution directory)

17. Allow search bots (good ones) to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site.

18. Check your web server/host if it supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. It tells search engines whether your content has changed since last crawled your site. It will save you bandwidth, resources and avoid server overload.

19. Use Robots.txt file to manage and control search engine spiders in indexing your site. You can allow and disallow spiders and choose directories you want to be crawled and indexed. But with bad bots or spam bots you need to modify your HTACCESS file to properly and effectively manage bots or spiders. Visit The Web Robots Pages to learn more about Robots.txt file.

20. Do not attempt to present different content to search engines than what you show to your site visitors.

21. Avoid dirty tricks and exploiting loop holes to improve search engines ranking.

22. Avoid links to bad neighborhood such as web spammers, link farms, phishing, hacker, crack, gambling, porn and scam sites. Linking to them will greatly affects your search engine rankings.

23. Do not attempt to join in link schemes, excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging and link exchange web rings.

24. Do not use unauthorized programs or online tools to submit your site, check page rankings and other automated queries. Avoid the risk of being flagged as spam.

25. Do not use hidden text and links. Show to search engines what you show to your vistors. It will greatly affect your site's reputation.

26. Do not attempt to create pages that contains phishing, scam, viruses, trojans, backdoors, spyware, adware and other malicious programs.

27. Make your site useful and informative.

28. Improve your link building. Link to high PR websites. Quality of relevant links are far more important than quantity. Links will greatly improve your site's visibility, popularity and rankings. Search engines consider links as votes to your site.

29. Check your page link structure. Every page should be reachable by a single static text link.

30. Be extra careful in purchasing SEO services. Some uses illegal and questionable ways to improve rankings.

31. Do not buy or sell links.

32. Do not create sites that contains purely affiliate links and no valuable content that are useful to the users.

I hope these tips will add more popularity and visibility to your site. Enjoy!

Edwin Reyes is a Web Developer and the Webmaster of Findmesoftware.com, a Philippine based website that provides free software downloads, tools, reviews, online tips, blogging resources, tutorials and Free SEO Tools and Software Download. "
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  • Profile picture of the author shiraziscool
    Thanks for the great list :-)
    They will surely help!
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    • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
      thanks for posting this great list.I hope this will be a great help especially for the newbies.
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  • Profile picture of the author Billy Deakin
    Good list H1dayah, only comment I would make is re:

    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. Consider also submitting to other search engine but most of them are powered by these four leading search engines. Submit also your site to reputable high PR web directories, open directories, yellow pages and social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl, etc.
    Not necessary, and in fact could slow down your site getting indexed. Better to get a couple of backlinks and let the search engines find you naturally... You can get a brand new site indexed by Google within 2 hours doing this, while if you use their submission tool it can take a lot longer!

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author crystalq
      Originally Posted by Billy Deakin View Post

      Good list H1dayah, only comment I would make is re:



      Not necessary, and in fact could slow down your site getting indexed. Better to get a couple of backlinks and let the search engines find you naturally... You can get a brand new site indexed by Google within 2 hours doing this, while if you use their submission tool it can take a lot longer!

      Bill
      Yeah thats right, submit your site or post
      to digg and other social news sites for
      fast indexing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tony_D
      Originally Posted by Billy Deakin View Post

      Good list H1dayah, only comment I would make is re:



      Not necessary, and in fact could slow down your site getting indexed. Better to get a couple of backlinks and let the search engines find you naturally... You can get a brand new site indexed by Google within 2 hours doing this, while if you use their submission tool it can take a lot longer!

      Bill
      Very true. I had one NMOC site I was working on that had a page-1 ranking in google within a few days of promotion. I never indexed the site with google, not once.

      On the other hand, a rather large content site I'm currently working on has at least a dozen high-PR backlinks, 4 articles with backlinks and a very thorough Squidoo page linking to it. I submitted it to Google immediately after I got the index page up and running. Google last spidered it... August 5th. Very annoying. However, I am excited to wake up one day and see that my site has jumped from non-existant to the first or second page for a moderately competitive search term.

      So in short, DONT index your page with search engines. Digg your site, twitter it, facebook it, add a squidoo page, etc. Article submissions with backlinks are also very powerful, as you probably already know.
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      • Profile picture of the author adarwish
        Thanks for the post, hidayah.

        askloz, thanks for the clarifications.
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    • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
      Originally Posted by Billy Deakin View Post

      Good list H1dayah, only comment I would make is re:



      Not necessary, and in fact could slow down your site getting indexed. Better to get a couple of backlinks and let the search engines find you naturally... You can get a brand new site indexed by Google within 2 hours doing this, while if you use their submission tool it can take a lot longer!

      Bill

      Actually there are two options... You submit manually or let the crawlers find your site and indexed. Submit your sitemap or wait for the spiders to access that through Robots.txt.


      ok....


      The benefits of submitting it manually to search engine...like in Google.


      1. you can monitor the health of your sitemap.... regarding unreachable urls, broken links, 404 error ..etc compared to just letting the search engines.... As a webmaster monitoring is very important.

      2. Did you notice and compared the number of indexed URLs when you manually submit it...than just waiting for search engines.

      The indexing may be slow... but I noticed.. Indexed urls are greater in number than the one you are telling.

      Just like what happened to my site.... it jumped to PR2 (I bought my domain last january 2008... developed the program/content/testing... and officially online last April 2008... And now not bad for me, as White hat follower..... I'm PR2.... in 3-4 months...Doing it consistently can hit PR5 in 10 months.) ... and skipped PR1 when Google update my page rank. Google may be slow in updating your PR, but Google is still fair in giving ranking.

      Try the manual submission and the automatic .... and compare the number of indexed URLs... and you will notice which is better...

      I noticed this with Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. I resubmit my sitemap and noticed improvement on the number of indexed urls.


      Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author gbh1935
      awesome tips, I would also add to be sure to ping your sitemaps when there are changes to content.
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      • Profile picture of the author quanzaboy
        Good thread! I can comment from personal experience about hidden content not visible to users but visible to search engines, it really does work and improves your traffic substantially, and in fact search engines have no way of detecting this. However if you have serious competition then they will surely rat you out (which happened to me) and as a result get your site removed from google as a penalty. I had to then play dumb with google and tell them it was done unintentionally blah blah blah... and had my site re-instated to the index after about 30 days (with the hidden keywords removed, obviously).

        If you want to try this I would recommend getting a throw away URL (not your main one), trying it there and linking it to your site, or creating a duplicate of your site on it.

        The method I used was pretty nice though... you use CSS positions and z-index to layer your site, so that the main content appears at the topmost layer (for users to see), and a whole list of keywords appears at the bottom (for bots to see). Worked like a charm!
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        • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
          Originally Posted by quanzaboy View Post

          Good thread! I can comment from personal experience about hidden content not visible to users but visible to search engines, it really does work and improves your traffic substantially, and in fact search engines have no way of detecting this. However if you have serious competition then they will surely rat you out (which happened to me) and as a result get your site removed from google as a penalty. I had to then play dumb with google and tell them it was done unintentionally blah blah blah... and had my site re-instated to the index after about 30 days (with the hidden keywords removed, obviously).

          If you want to try this I would recommend getting a throw away URL (not your main one), trying it there and linking it to your site, or creating a duplicate of your site on it.

          The method I used was pretty nice though... you use CSS positions and z-index to layer your site, so that the main content appears at the topmost layer (for users to see), and a whole list of keywords appears at the bottom (for bots to see). Worked like a charm!
          thank you for he feedback.....i will come back if i have something new.thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Thanks for your "attempt" to help others, that shows how much of a person you are, a giving one...

    however, as a SEO Professional, I'd like to correct you on some false myths that you have been lead to believe in.

    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    3. Submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com (sitemap for search engines usually in XML format)

    DO NOT submit your website to search engines.

    Search engines have PERFECT ability to find your pages without extra assistance such as submitting your sitemap.

    if you want to submit sitemaps to a search engine, why not do it the correct way and save many hours in the process.

    create a ROR.XML file and add the necessary information to your header tag, the search engine bot will then read this file.

    faster indexing and even more precise


    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    4. Offer sitemap to your site visitors for easy page navigation. (sitemap for visitors in HTML format)

    Not needed, if a site's structure is created properly, then there is no cause for a human site map. However, I agree, having one, does help in SE Rankings, but it needs to be structured properly.

    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    7. Use text instead of images in your content, links and important subjects.
    Sir, total nonsense.

    Please explain why several of my home pages with sliced images as many as 50, rank for the phrases in top to 5th position on yahoo, google, msn with just images?

    Who ever told you this myth, is wrong, use ALT text... another tip, link it to another pages.

    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post


    11. Meta Tag keywords must be 15-20 words maximum.
    Don't use keyword meta tags, it doesn't improve your rankings.


    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    14. If your site contains dynamic pages(i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), make sure you use SEO friendly URLs. Search engines' spiders having difficulty indexing dynamic pages.
    MYTH... Google as of about 8 months or so ago, they do INDEX pages with 3 or 4 more parameters after the ? mark.

    However, I agree, they should be SE friendly... these should be done with .htaccess re-writes.




    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    15. Maximum links per page must be fewer than 100. Avoid the risk of being flagged as link farm by search engines.

    Totally false. More links you have on your pages directed to other pages of relevancy, in fact helps rankings. take wikipedia site for instance.

    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    20. Do not attempt to present different content to search engines than what you show to your site visitors.
    Search engines have no way to detect this if it's a cloned link, unless otherwise reported manually or a member of google found out by manual review.


    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    28. Improve your link building. Link to high PR websites. Quality of relevant links are far more important than quantity. Links will greatly improve your site's visibility, popularity and rankings. Search engines consider links as votes to your site.

    Not "always" necessary, but in the most part, I agree.. however..

    PR0 pages linked to PR0 pages that are highly relevant can still out rank sites that you recommend.

    Pr is just a measure of importance of a site, from site to site, over a period of time.

    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

    32. Do not create sites that contains purely affiliate links and no valuable content that are useful to the users.
    Crikey, with that advice, I'd be skint.

    A LOT of my sites, over 400 of them, all have affiliate links on them, tell me, why do I make over $20k a month with HEAPS of affiliate links on my site's pages? .. hmm


    Any ways up, great effort so far, a score of 67 out of 100...
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    • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Brown
      Loz, you did a great job on providing updates to the post.

      However, I take small exception to one point:


      <Quote:>
      Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post

      11. Meta Tag keywords must be 15-20 words maximum.
      Don't use keyword meta tags, it doesn't improve your rankings.</Quote:>

      If you already have a description, it can take less than 30 seconds to plugin 5 to 10 keywords. For most of the major search engines, it can be shown that they really don't care. But I have yet to see one penalize you for having a proper keyword tag. By proper, I basically mean that it is not stuff with 100's of keywords.

      So, at a minimum, the keyword tag used properly, does not hurt, the question is does it help. As far as Google and Yahoo are concerned, who knows when they will change again, and start reading keyword tags? So, for right now, you can legally, (meaning within the rules of the search engines) add a few extra targeted words to your pages.

      Now, for the biggie, there are thousands of smaller, niche search / directories, that do use keywords. And as a person who runs these types of sites, I have at times denied up to 50% of submissions because the person did not include keyword tags, and had an incomplete description.

      Those who added the keyword take saved me time in trying to make sure that their submission was placed in the proper, category. Those submissions typically started out with an advantage.

      Since it takes only a small amount of time, it is worth it to add keywords.

      kelvin
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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        Kelvin, dude, no one said you would get penalized for having a keyword meta tag. Google just doesn't use it to rank pages due to previous manipulations it once had when it was included in google's alogo'.

        The only time google will use the keyword meta tag, is for showing the correct ads for adsense pages (amongst other elements) and pay per click with adwords.. other than that, if people feel that it helps in the terms of ranking a page, then they're climbing up the wrong tree.
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        • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
          Originally Posted by askloz View Post

          Kelvin, dude, no one said you would get penalized for having a keyword meta tag. Google just doesn't use it to rank pages due to previous manipulations it once had when it was included in google's alogo'.

          The only time google will use the keyword meta tag, is for showing the correct ads for adsense pages (amongst other elements) and pay per click with adwords.. other than that, if people feel that it helps in the terms of ranking a page, then they're climbing up the wrong tree.
          Thank you guy.....i do really appreciated all the idea comes up..............its got me more .............
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      • Profile picture of the author Kelvin Brown
        Originally Posted by Kelvin Brown View Post


        But I have yet to see one penalize you for having a proper keyword tag. By proper, I basically mean that it is not stuff with 100's of keywords.

        kelvin
        askloz, Excuse my lack separation.

        That was put in my be for clarification, as to proper use. It was not meant to be attributed to you.

        Since I was advocating adding keywords, I wanted to make sure it was done properly. I will agree at this time that it does not appear to help in ranking, but since it can help in other areas, as you noted, why not take 20 seconds and add one or two.

        Kelvin
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        • Profile picture of the author flashgordon
          Good list. I would also argue that #14 is not really valid any more. I have a site that uses PHP and does not use a SEO friendly URL plugin (couldn't get it to work properly). Google has had no trouble indexing the individual pages this way. It may have been true, but I think search engines understand that more and more sites are going this way so they need to be able to deal with dynamic pages.
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          • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
            hi! regarding tip #14 .... SEO friendly URLs... My question is why Wordpress uses permalink in the form of SEO friendly urls (easy to read and remember urls)....they are just following the Google guidelines?

            These tips are in general.... adapted to different search engines and not for Google alone...
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  • Profile picture of the author erikko
    Originally Posted by h1dayah View Post


    2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. Consider also submitting to other search engine but most of them are powered by these four leading search engines. Submit also your site to reputable high PR web directories, open directories, yellow pages and social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl, etc.
    this one's funny because it isn't necessary. sometimes spiders find your site, it's better to submit it on social bookmarking services
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    • Profile picture of the author yaji
      Yep, I agree in nowadays we don't need to submit to SEs, only broadcast our presences in social sites. that is, let SEs find us, not the other way around, any more.
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      • Profile picture of the author dtcash7
        Really great discussion and very informative. I wonder if anyone would be interested in taking it to a more personal level, and offering me their honest feedback on my website. I'm fairly new to SEO, so any and all feedback would be much appreciated. Would you consider this site properly optimized...as far as you can tell at least? If not, why not? How can I make it better? Is it user/viewer friendly?

        It might be asking a lot, but if anyone has the time, brutal honestly is what I'm looking for. Much thanks.

        Here is a link to my website Cash Solutions Online

        If you still find you have some time, you could also offer your feedback for my other site here Team Constructing Wealth

        Have a great day!


        PS - Sure the backlinks here help, but my honest intent is for some feedback.
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        • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
          Originally Posted by dtcash7 View Post

          Really great discussion and very informative. I wonder if anyone would be interested in taking it to a more personal level, and offering me their honest feedback on my website. I'm fairly new to SEO, so any and all feedback would be much appreciated. Would you consider this site properly optimized...as far as you can tell at least? If not, why not? How can I make it better? Is it user/viewer friendly?

          It might be asking a lot, but if anyone has the time, brutal honestly is what I'm looking for. Much thanks.

          Here is a link to my website Cash Solutions Online

          If you still find you have some time, you could also offer your feedback for my other site here Team Constructing Wealth

          Have a great day!


          PS - Sure the backlinks here help, but my honest intent is for some feedback.


          Hello Dude,

          I,ve seen your site already.......mmm...Did you notice your site is too Plain.In my opinion the more atractive our site could bring more visitor to come back.
          If you wish to check my website..http://www.brandsite.org even this one am still develop atleast there is several things that affiliate might needing it.(i wish this give you some idea)

          I suggest you to develop more your website,for am really hobby with this field so am prefer to take premium to host to my site rather than the free one.so you can costumize your page as wish as you love.

          after you have nice web am suggest to submit to StumbleUpon ,am recently submit it and it amazing the result in search engine.am still learning but really it is my hobby.

          If want to check .
          my site now .if you put keywords:
          MAKE MONEY | THE REVOLUTION OF EARNING MONEY ONLINE
          am in the first position,(i think no body will write this one in search engine)

          earning money online
          position 23

          money online
          position 73

          At least after almost 4 month 19 day i have clue what am doing.

          Am use this one for exchange link Link Exchange. Free Link Exchange Directory. ,submit to other social bookmark aswell.
          Hope any one will add my thought.....am still learn also
          all the best.......If there is anyone have also opinion about my website please fell free........
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          • Profile picture of the author dtcash7
            Thanks a lot for the feedback. I was very worried it was too "plain". I was trying to go simple, but I need to find a good balance and possible make it more attractive. I just hate sites that are too "busy" you know, and I want to stay away from that.

            Anyone else...feel free. My ears are open!
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    Hi,

    Thanks for the list .. & thank you for the corrections..cant keep up!!
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    • Profile picture of the author wolvie
      That's a long list. Got some points which I did not knew before. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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      • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
        Quoted by ASKLOZ....15. Maximum links per page must be fewer than 100. Avoid the risk of being flagged as link farm by search engines.


        Totally false. More links you have on your pages directed to other pages of relevancy, in fact helps rankings. take wikipedia site for instance.
        Tip #15 is definitely true. That is maximum outbound links should be fewer than 100. Please check GOOGLE's Webmaster Guidelines before commenting "it's not true". If it's not true, then you simply not following Google Guidelines.


        Why put all the 100 outbound links in one page... you are free to create thousands of pages... to scatter your outbound links...

        Better to follow the google guidelines on the maximum number of outbound links per page.... that is 100
        anyway you have the choice... greater than or less than 100 .....

        the safer or the riskier....which do you prefer?
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        • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
          by ASKLOZ...

          14. If your site contains dynamic pages(i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), make sure you use SEO friendly URLs. Search engines' spiders having difficulty indexing dynamic pages.


          MYTH... Google as of about 8 months or so ago, they do INDEX pages with 3 or 4 more parameters after the ? mark.
          Actually this tip#14 is not for Google alone.... it was adapted to all search engines. Other search engines not yet upgraded their crawlers... so it is still beneficial to follow this tip #14.

          And SEO friendly URLs are good both for Search Engines and humans too. Human can read it and remember it easily... even without bookmarking it...and get higher percentage on returning visitors..
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            • Profile picture of the author FrankBowman
              Originally Posted by ibuildlinks View Post

              I just want to add, get links from 'do-follow' sites.
              DoFollow only related to the passage pf PageRank.

              SE spiders follow "nofllow links" to your site to see what its about.

              Just use anchor text in link. Dofollow,nofollow.........meaningless

              Happy new year
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          • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
            By ASKLOZ...

            20. Do not attempt to present different content to search engines than what you show to your site visitors.

            Search engines have no way to detect this if it's a cloned link, unless otherwise reported manually or a member of google found out by manual review.
            Tip 20 is clear and with honest intention in improving your ranking. This is a Whitehat SEO Tips.

            I think your comment is some sort of a BLACK HAT. Black hat is good while you're not caught.

            If you want peace of mind ... just follow which is right... that is white hat.
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            • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
              BY ASKLOZ...

              7. Use text instead of images in your content, links and important subjects.

              Sir, total nonsense.

              Please explain why several of my home pages with sliced images as many as 50, rank for the phrases in top to 5th position on yahoo, google, msn with just images?

              Who ever told you this myth, is wrong, use ALT text... another tip, link it to another pages.
              **************************************************


              Simple explanation...

              Did you noticed that... "you're in top 5th position".... if you will just follow this tip #7...

              The benefits are ....

              1.your site will have greater speed ( or double in speed because you have smaller page and fewer HTTP request which is related and can affect SEO)....

              --- please remember the 30k ideal page size (100k max)--- -- w/c is important to show your page in 5-15 seconds-----> very important to your visitors and PLUS factor to your site.

              2. You can save your resources such as bandwidth ( which is expenses on your part)

              3. and you can get a better position than the "5th position" you are telling. You can hit better than this definitely.

              You can notice this especially when your site is getting bigger.

              This tip is for better SEO and Speed Optimization of your site ( as suggested by Google) and definitely not a MYTH.

              When you do SEO... Do not Target the 5th Position.... Target The FIRST Position
              Anyway, you can decide which is better for you.
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              • Profile picture of the author countonuspr
                2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. Consider also submitting to other search engine but most of them are powered by these four leading search engines. Submit also your site to reputable high PR web directories, open directories, yellow pages and social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl, etc.
                Just like what everyone else said above. The fastest way to get indexed is to submit to Digg.com, submit articles, add your link to a page already in the Google index that you own, get a link on another website, etc. This will get you indexed faster, and I have had many websites indexed in under 24 hours doing this. If you have a blog pinging it will help a ton as well.

                13. Validate your CSS and HTML. Check for errors and broken links.
                Great and important point. People can do this over at The W3C Markup Validation Service. If you aren't sure how to make your code validate so there are fewer errors outsource through Guru.com or GetAFreelancer.com and request to have your code validated. (I just checked out my blog, and I need to fix some errors!)

                14. If your site contains dynamic pages(i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), make sure you use SEO friendly URLs. Search engines' spiders having difficulty indexing dynamic pages.
                Search engines don't have as many problems as they used to, but I recommend the use of them for multiple reasons. One is that having the keyword in the URL will help tell the visitors and the search engines what to expect on your page. It also looks cleaner in the browser, and also it may be easier for visitors to remember your page this way. I love SEO friendly URLs.

                Overall this is a good, comprehensive list. Great work here.
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                • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
                  BY ASKLOZ....

                  32. Do not create sites that contains purely affiliate links and no valuable content that are useful to the users.


                  Crikey, with that advice, I'd be skint.

                  A LOT of my sites, over 400 of them, all have affiliate links on them, tell me, why do I make over $20k a month with HEAPS of affiliate links on my site's pages? .. hmm
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                  What's wrong with this tip 32? This is a very good tip.

                  Affiliate links are good as long as there are valuable content on your site. Valuable content make your visitors to come back.

                  Tip 32 is the same criteria and requirement of DMOZ. Having your site listed in DMOZ is a big adavantage, because your site will be automatically referred to hundreds of open directories,once you've been approved.

                  If you are presently earning $20k/month and followed this tip #32... Definitely your income will increase... probably double or triple. That means you're not maximizing your income potentials.

                  If you are thinking of a long term and stable business just follow this tip 32.
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                    You have to have great content if you want your users to keep coming back. I totally agree with your comments on that. If your website has tons of horrible advertisements on them people will just leave and never come back. The power of returning visitors is enormous and something that can separate your website from the competition. Write good, solid content and you will have return visitors. I think tip #32 was great!
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                    • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
                      Originally Posted by countonuspr View Post

                      You have to have great content if you want your users to keep coming back. I totally agree with your comments on that. If your website has tons of horrible advertisements on them people will just leave and never come back. The power of returning visitors is enormous and something that can separate your website from the competition. Write good, solid content and you will have return visitors. I think tip #32 was great!
                      Thanks all for being participate in.
                      If there is other thought please fell free.
                      i will note all things here for my website growth.
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                      • Profile picture of the author Internet Stores
                        Hi h1dayah,

                        Thank you so much for your great list!! As someone starting out in IM, I need all the help I can get! I will definitely be looking through this list when SEO comes into play.

                        Thanks again!
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                            Originally Posted by tanya1177 View Post

                            What do you exactly mean: " 30. Be extra careful in purchasing SEO services. Some uses illegal and questionable ways to improve rankings."?
                            And this statement "Do not buy or sell links." - i can not agree with you, sometimes it's useful and helpful for your site.
                            Yup am agree also with your opinion.do not try to buy link or some like that .it is ilegal and can cause ban of your IP address and your website aswell.
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                                Originally Posted by tanya1177 View Post

                                I had never done this, but I know some people who bought forum signature and it was useful!
                                Really ..........do you have any experience of that one.......please tell me ...i want to check it.
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                                • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
                                  31. Do not buy or sell links.
                                  Simply means....

                                  Do not BUY or SELL links for the purpose of MANIPULATING PAGERANK. Buying and Selling LINKS are just fine for the purpose of ADVERTISING...... BUT... A NOFOLLOW TAG should be included on all paid ADS links.
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                                  • Profile picture of the author star007
                                    Another good thing is to submit articles to articles directories with high PR like ezinearticles and to get the rss urls from them and then submit the rss urls to rss feed aggregators like friendfeed, and feedage, etc.
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                                      Originally Posted by star007 View Post

                                      Another good thing is to submit articles to articles directories with high PR like ezinearticles and to get the rss urls from them and then submit the rss urls to rss feed aggregators like friendfeed, and feedage, etc.
                                      star007
                                      Good point. I have articles there but did not notice there are RSS feeds for the articles. I thought RSS feed is mostly for blog posts. I will do that as suggested.
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                  • Profile picture of the author askloz
                    why is it a good tip? why leave money on the table?

                    I have MANY sites in Dmoz, and most of them do have 301 redirect links to affiliate sites.

                    Stop giving me advice, I didn't ask for it. I make over $200k a month in affiliate commissions, through PPC, TV, Radio, Classified Ads and many other web 2.0 methods. And they aren't just normal websites, they are interactive sites, with MANY returning visitos and a contact list of over 400,000 people.

                    So figure, I must be doing something wrong.

                    Originally Posted by edwinreyes View Post

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                    What's wrong with this tip 32? This is a very good tip.

                    Affiliate links are good as long as there are valuable content on your site. Valuable content make your visitors to come back.

                    Tip 32 is the same criteria and requirement of DMOZ. Having your site listed in DMOZ is a big adavantage, because your site will be automatically referred to hundreds of open directories,once you've been approved.

                    If you are presently earning $20k/month and followed this tip #32... Definitely your income will increase... probably double or triple. That means you're not maximizing your income potentials.

                    If you are thinking of a long term and stable business just follow this tip 32.
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              • Profile picture of the author askloz
                You seriously need to read these posts more carefully.

                the tip was to say use more content than images.

                if you just had a page with images, the file size is going to be smaller, search engines don't take into account how long a page loads, they just calculate the total size of page that's made up of characters.

                again, I stand by what I say... rankings with just image alt text is still posible, and sure, I could rank higher than 5th position for just an alt text if i pointed more links to my site, but in this case i hadn't..

                stop replying to my posts thinking I don't know how to do SEO. If I was so unclued about it like you make out, then I wonder why I have a large handful of people under my wing teaching seo and why my other sites generate over 1,000 visitors a day, check out my video guide to profits link in sig and you'll see some of my high performing visitor site stats. And I can tell you right now, when have you ever had 1000 visitors a day, constantly and growing each month to your sites?

                Originally Posted by edwinreyes View Post

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                Simple explanation...

                Did you noticed that... "you're in top 5th position".... if you will just follow this tip #7...

                The benefits are ....

                1.your site will have greater speed ( or double in speed because you have smaller page and fewer HTTP request which is related and can affect SEO)....

                --- please remember the 30k ideal page size (100k max)--- -- w/c is important to show your page in 5-15 seconds-----> very important to your visitors and PLUS factor to your site.

                2. You can save your resources such as bandwidth ( which is expenses on your part)

                3. and you can get a better position than the "5th position" you are telling. You can hit better than this definitely.

                You can notice this especially when your site is getting bigger.

                This tip is for better SEO and Speed Optimization of your site ( as suggested by Google) and definitely not a MYTH.

                Anyway, you can decide which is better for you.
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            • Profile picture of the author askloz
              Originally Posted by edwinreyes View Post

              Tip 20 is clear and with honest intention in improving your ranking. This is a Whitehat SEO Tips.

              I think your comment is some sort of a BLACK HAT. Black hat is good while you're not caught.

              If you want peace of mind ... just follow which is right... that is white hat.
              I wasn't advocating black hat, just adding to a fact.
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          • Profile picture of the author askloz
            Originally Posted by edwinreyes View Post

            Actually this tip#14 is not for Google alone.... it was adapted to all search engines. Other search engines not yet upgraded their crawlers... so it is still beneficial to follow this tip #14.

            And SEO friendly URLs are good both for Search Engines and humans too. Human can read it and remember it easily... even without bookmarking it...and get higher percentage on returning visitors..
            Sorry, nonsense, all search engines have conformed to it.

            No one said that not having seo friendly urls was bad, you just read it wrong, i was referring to what I had quoted so you need to read that again before trying to jump on my posts before implying I don't know what I am talking about.
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          it's not a RULE, it's a guideline... and if it was totally advised against it, then tell me why Wikipedia has pages with over 100 links on it and still manage to rank for very broad terms.

          So, I stand by what I say, it's not true.

          Originally Posted by edwinreyes View Post

          Tip #15 is definitely true. That is maximum outbound links should be fewer than 100. Please check GOOGLE's Webmaster Guidelines before commenting "it's not true". If it's not true, then you simply not following Google Guidelines.


          anyway you have the choice... greater than or less than 100 .....

          the safer or the riskier....which do you prefer?
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  • Profile picture of the author kwagner
    Pertaining to #31 on the list (selling links)... as an unrelated (perhaps) thread/question, I am wondering if selling text links can drop page rank?

    My site www.cooking-solutions.com has run at PR5-6 for several years until a couple months ago when I dropped to PR3. I couldn't figure out why since I have a large content-based site, until I thought about the latest Google slap around the same time. I have tons of links out, and yes, some of them are paid ads. Definitely a small percentage of overall links out, but do any of you know if this would drop my PR since I don't use "nofollow" anywhere in my code?

    Thanks in advance...

    Chef Kevin
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    • Profile picture of the author edwinreyes
      Originally Posted by kwagner View Post

      Pertaining to #31 on the list (selling links)... as an unrelated (perhaps) thread/question, I am wondering if selling text links can drop page rank?

      My site www.cooking-solutions.com has run at PR5-6 for several years until a couple months ago when I dropped to PR3. I couldn't figure out why since I have a large content-based site, until I thought about the latest Google slap around the same time. I have tons of links out, and yes, some of them are paid ads. Definitely a small percentage of overall links out, but do any of you know if this would drop my PR since I don't use "nofollow" anywhere in my code?

      Thanks in advance...

      Chef Kevin
      According to Google......

      Buying and selling links are just fine for advertisement purposes only and should contained the nofollow tag.... but not for the purpose of manipulating PageRank
      I think you need to review your backlinks especially the reciprocal links. May be some of your link partners are no longer active, or banned by Google, or they linked to bad neighborhoods, or their PR also dropped.

      You might want to reduce your reciprocals and retain only the best and trusted ones, Better to eliminate them if possible..... and increase your one way links instead.

      to be safe ... use nofollow to all untrusted links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lightlysalted
    That's an awesome list. Don't agree with them all but I think that the majority are very helpful, esepcially to newbies.
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      Thank good posting
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    • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
      Hello all i came across the site and i found something interest.

      This just only one paragraph that am cut it off.

      How to Optimize Title Tags
      Optimizing the title tags plays an extremely important role in any search engine optimization campaign. In addition to search engine optimization, well written title tags also help you in increasing the usability of a web page.

      Importance of title tags
      Title tags play three very important roles as described below

      * First and foremost title tags are very important from the search engine point of view. This is because all major and minor search engines place much weightage on these tags (and use these tags to gather information about an website) in comparison to all other aspects
      * Secondly many major search engines like google and yahoo! display title tags of a web page as a heading in their SERPs (Search engine results page) followed by a breif description of the content were the keywords appear
      * The third most important function of title tags is to help the user in finding out which page he is on. Almost all popular browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, display title tags on the top bar as well as the bottom. Firefox 1.0 uses title tags to describe 'tabs'. This makes title tags extremely important from the web usability point of view as well.


      for the complete story just follow this link

      How to Optimize Title Tags?

      You will find more usefull information.
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      • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
        hello,

        i found this one in google group.......

        SEO Tools SEO Company - free seo tool - Search Engine Optimization Company


        SEO Tools

        * New SEO Tools (4) - A list of the newest SEO tools added to the
        directory.
        * Alexa Tools (5) - Tools that assist in attaining valuable SEO
        related information from the alexa.com website.
        * Backlink Tools (1) - You can find out information about the
        backlinks on your website, or someone elses with these tools.
        * Code Validation (2) - A set of tools that allows you to check
        and see if your website or xml file validates as a professional
        standard.
        * Combined Keyword Suggestion Tools (2) - Tools that help combine
        keywords. Mainly used for PPC campaigns.
        * Combo Search Engine Ranking Tools (4) - Check various search
        engines for multiple keywords all at once. A nice resource for users
        that like to find out how they rank in multiple search engines without
        having to go to each one and checking.
        * Compare Search Engine Ranking Tools (8) - List of tools that
        compare your rankings in the various search engines.
        * Domain Tools (18) - In depth information about domains.
        * Exchange Link SEO Tools (5) - Tools that check links on a
        website to verify whether they are broken or not.
        * Google Ranking Tools (8) - List of tools that check your ranking
        in the Google search engine.
        * Google Sitemap Tools (1) - A set of tools that help generate
        Google sitemaps. A quick solution to a lengthy process.
        * Internet Bookmarking (2) - Websites that provide a global
        bookmarking resource. Stores your bookmarks on their websites, so that
        you can access them from anywhere.
        * Keyword Suggestion Tools (13) - List of tools that help you
        choose the best keywords for your website.
        * Keyword Tools (9) - Tools that check your keyword density on
        your website.
        * Link Popularity Tools (14) - A list of tools that check various
        sources for information on links to determine their popularity.
        * Misc Tools (8) - Various tools that perform SEO related
        functions.
        * MSN Ranking Tools (2) - Checks the MSN search engine to find out
        what your sites ranking is for a specific keyword.
        * Page Rank Tools (4) - Tools that query Google data centers to
        find out what your website Page Rank is.
        * Pay Per Click Tools (2) - If you are interested in PPC, check
        out the tools available for PPC resources.
        * Related Page Rank Tools (11) - List of tools that determine your
        current and future Page Rank based on inbound links.
        * Robots.txt Tools (3) - Tools for generating Robot.txt files.
        * Search Engine Position Tools (7) - Checks your position in each
        search engine based on the keyword and URL inputted.
        * Text Link Ad Value Tools (4) - Help determine the value of your
        keyword phrase based on popularity and usage.
        * Toolbars (7) - A list of websites that provide toolbars for
        popular website browsers. (IE, FF, Opera, etc.)
        * Track Ranking Tools (1) - Tools that track keyword rankings in
        the top search engines.
        * Web Site Optimization Tools (16) - Set of tools that help
        optimize your website for the various search engines.
        * Yahoo Ranking Tools (2) - List of tools that show your ranking
        in the yahoo search engine results for certain keywords.




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  • Profile picture of the author Gunter Eibl
    Great list but the title should read "white hat" SEO tips

    Some of the things listed not to do are quite effective for SEO, just considered black hat.

    Gunter
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    • Profile picture of the author realistics
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      Dear Friend,

      Here I am new member.

      Thank You very much friend for very helpful tips.

      I read it and it will be definitely helpful for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sirric
    Dang these are some great tips, thanks a bunch for all the followup posts, i love it!
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  • Profile picture of the author eukristian
    These are the old tips almost any seo expert knows. Meta tags don't count anymore . The basic thing is : the more quality links pointing to your site and use a clean HTML navigation .
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    • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
      Originally Posted by eukristian View Post

      These are the old tips almost any seo expert knows. Meta tags don't count anymore . The basic thing is : the more quality links pointing to your site and use a clean HTML navigation .
      Hei been a while .....would you mind to tell me more about "clean html navigation" please............if you have web page that offer free stuff to check it am appreciated.

      thank you..
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  • Profile picture of the author Misch.Chief
    That is very good and comprehensive list for SEM's - great stuff!
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  • Profile picture of the author johnymartin11
    I think you have covered all basic things ... but as I am new bie so will you please tell me about these two terms ...

    ALT tags
    Lynx as text browser

    Take Care
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    • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
      Originally Posted by johnymartin11 View Post

      I think you have covered all basic things ... but as I am new bie so will you please tell me about these two terms ...

      ALT tags
      Lynx as text browser

      Take Care
      1) Alt attributes

      The alt attribute is used to describe the contents of an image file. It's important for several reasons:

      * Googlebot cannot read text embedded in images. Therefore, alt text is a useful way to give Google information about an image.
      * Many people, for example users with visual impairments, or people who use screen readers, or have low bandwidth connections, cannot see images on web pages. Descriptive alt text provides these users with important information.

      Not so good:

      <img src="puppy.jpg" alt=""/>

      Better:

      <img src="puppy.jpg" alt="puppy"/>

      Best:

      <img src="puppy.jpg" alt="Golden Retriever puppy fetching a stick">

      To be avoided (may cause your site to be perceived as spam):

      <img src="puppy.jpg" alt="puppy dog baby
      dog pup pups puppies doggies pups litter puppies dog retriever
      labrador wolfhound setter pointer puppy jack russell terrier
      puppies dog food cheap dogfood puppy food"/>



      2) Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.


      And this is what they mean (i put my website just as example only)

      Search Engine Simulator





      Example 1: Summary based on all text on page
      Professional People Search - Instant Online Records Retrieval By.Brandsite.org Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:56:09 GMT, 64092 bytes
      1 Nationwide Databases: - Information on 90% of U.S. Residents - Search Over 250 Million Criminal Records - Over One Billion Records Under Your Fingertips I never knew that so much criminal data is
      Professional People Search - Instant Online Records Retrieval By.Brandsite.org



      Example 2: Summary based on headers only
      Professional People Search - Instant Online Records Retrieval By.Brandsite.org Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:56:09 GMT, 64092 bytes
      Nationwide Databases: ARE YOU TRYING TO LOCATE A MISSING PERSON? ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF A LONG LOST LOVE, FAMILY MEMBER, OR FRIEND?
      Professional People Search - Instant Online Records Retrieval By.Brandsite.org

      So based on their software this is what it is close to likely search engine look at my site...and i think my site pretty well.


      Hopefully can give you some idea......
      Here is the link for lynx delorie software
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  • Profile picture of the author trade queen
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    For sure very useful.
    What is a deal with reciprocal links .Most of directories would require those for submittinf.
    Good or bad?
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    • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
      Originally Posted by trade queen View Post

      For sure very useful.
      What is a deal with reciprocal links .Most of directories would require those for submittinf.
      Good or bad?

      In my Opinion if you submit it to directories it is good ,but it will nice if you choose high PR as possible, It is not bad or good,they doing this one cause most probably they still new and tend to have lower PR. In order to make they own come up as well since they will get more link submit it to them.And Search Engine like directories cause they tend to be high traffic..DMOZ as a sample.

      Choose wisely when you submit to directories that have high PR then you submit to 10 directories that no have PR.

      All the best.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxineKelly
    Hey h1dayah

    The way you are replying to each query with the examples and all thats simply superb dear. Hats off to you. I will add you on IM and I hope you will be supportive at there too as you are here.

    You are really doing a great job for a new bie. Would you like to tell us your website also ... so that we can learn from there as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author h1dayah
      Originally Posted by MaxineKelly View Post

      Hey h1dayah

      The way you are replying to each query with the examples and all thats simply superb dear. Hats off to you. I will add you on IM and I hope you will be supportive at there too as you are here.

      You are really doing a great job for a new bie. Would you like to tell us your website also ... so that we can learn from there as well.
      Hello.

      am here also to learn ......and share.....that the way it is ,because i know there is no legal school to provide this subject.

      here is my website .just click link below:
      Best People Search | Instant Online People Search Retrieval By.Brandsite.org

      my goal now .....to get effort to "best people search" keyword.am working on it to be in good page in google.

      all the best.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxineKelly
    These are the basic tips for any newbie SEO and I am sure new bie will love it. But however you should explore a bit more. Somewhere these are really confusing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim45
      Originally Posted by SEOvB View Post

      Some pretty outdated tips and bad advice, but overall not to bad.

      Can you tell the warriors here why its bad advice?
      Some of it might be outdated but, I hardly think its bad advice.

      I'm not an seo expert but, maybe you are, so please enlighten me.
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  • Profile picture of the author WasabiHound
    Great posts - I feel like I just got a 5 hour class in 36 min (I'm a careful reader). Thank esp to H1dayah for starting the whole thing off and to everyone else for the lively discussion esp Kelvin Brown and Askloz. Hope I can contribute something on these lines soon - in the mean time - for me it's learn and test and learn and test again.
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  • Profile picture of the author kierenm
    You've created a nice sized list for people to get started on. Good to see it- and without the misleading info that's gonna run people into trouble down the track in their SEO efforts!

    Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author smartfinds
    Hello,

    I have to admit I'm not sure if I agree with the entire list either, but most of them are correct.

    There is a posting here from "akloz" about not submitting your sitemap to the search engines and I definitely don't agree with that person. When you submit your sitemap to Google within the webmaster tools, Google provides you invaluable stats, which can only happen if you submit your sitemap.xml file. Google even encourages you to do so. Not entirely sure why "akloz" feels this is not a good thing. We've seen successes with our client projects.
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    Good job friend, thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author George Sotello
    What a firey subject. I have to say, I'm still confuse with all the conflicting "facts".

    Any suggestions on where I can find relevant and updated information on SEO?
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  • Profile picture of the author freeonlinedating
    nice list,its usefull for people who newly starting seo especially,Thnaks for that list
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  • Profile picture of the author Topgunb
    Seo is so vast.

    Just a few things to add, fix , suggest

    Headings should be bold h2 or h3 must contain key term

    Per page only ref to current keyterms

    links no more than 10

    Have complete text sales page as link from pic,

    Make link keyterm in sales letter

    back links to be text based targeting main key term

    Thats about it.

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  • Profile picture of the author StevenSaliba
    Should the Meta tag keywords and description be different on every page? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jenie0109
    you can optimize your site even lots of images are included there. That's why, we discovered the essential of alt tags
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    I am going to create my own article based on this one.. .. thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshOm
    Very good post.
    It is always good to learn something that you didn't know.
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  • Profile picture of the author jesus3
    great post. will for sure use this info. bookmarked for future reference =]
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  • Profile picture of the author amadisalano
    SEO tricks:
    Write great content
    Write unique content
    Add new content all the time
    Create a great keyword phrase
    Choose a phrase that is popular, but not too popular
    Write an accessible site
    Use the keyword phrase in your title tag
    Get a domain with your keyword phrase
    Use the keyword phrase in your URL
    Use your keyword phrase a lot, but not too much
    Use your keyword phrase in headlines
    Use your keyword phrase in anchor text of links
    Ask other people for links to your page
    Try to get your keyword phrase inside incoming links
    Try to get links from reputable sites
    Try to get links from similar sites
    Try to get links from .edu, and .gov sites
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  • Profile picture of the author petesankey
    Thanks for the list. Good for complete Newbies, but it is a bit straight laced. You need a little bit of slightly black hat techniques (but done carefully and well) to really excel in SEO in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author FrankBowman
    This really needs to be put into context. If you're looking to rank for a KW with less than say 500 monthly searches, then........

    Get an exact match domain
    Put the Kewyword in the Title of the site
    Write some decent content
    Buidl a few blog comment links and a couple thousand profile links

    .........you'll be in the top 1-5 positions in no time.

    If you're trying to rank for high searched terms, then yes, it becomes more complicated and requires more work.


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  • Profile picture of the author orvn
    Lmao, Loz is SO right. A lot of misinformation here!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mamun_R
    Very good list. I always keep a copy of "The Art of SEO" on my desk, this is definitely going to be added as a reference list.

    Thanks for sharing h1dayah!

    Regards
    Mamun
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  • Profile picture of the author alfieclinton
    The SEO tips which you have given is very nice and I am much impressed. Also I want to share some ideas . The SEO ideas are as under:-
    1. Unique Content Writing.
    2. Strong Link Building.
    3. Spreading Right Keyword.
    4. Social Bookmarking.
    5. Blog Writing And Submission.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamWilsonLaw
    On #2 - manually submitting doesn't seem to work as well for me with Google than having the spider find the site through good backlinks.

    On #21 - "dirty tricks" (not totally sure what this entails other than it's probably anything that isn't "white hat") work well in $$$ for me (among over a couple thousand of my sites). Totally pedestrian view of SEO in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author submitedgeseo
    These are really important tips about the SEO and thanks for sharing it. As i think doing the on page optimization properly really helps to get the quality traffic and the better ranking for the website.
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  • Profile picture of the author togu25
    great seo tips dude!
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  • Profile picture of the author ameerulislam10
    One important point is missing " Specify your canonical" know about it from google's official blog Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical
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