Articles Index

What is SEO Friendly Content
Search engine optimization or SEO is all about what words are on your page. If you don't have the words, you can't optimize for that term in a search engine. So writing content becomes very important if you're going to optimize for search engine keywords.

Don't Demand Links - Even Asking Can Seem Annoying
Backlinks are a great way to get better rankings on search engines. Especially if you're lucky enough to be linked from a site with a higher Google PageRank than you have. If you've been doing SEO for any period of time, you know this. But asking, or even demanding those links from other Web developers can backfire.

Getting People to Link to You - Link Love, How to (and How Not to) Get It
Getting people to link to your site is an important aspect of promotion. Link love, as it's called, is a way to show you like other people's sites and it's a way to get some SEO support as well as new readers.

SEO Checklist
This SEO checklist will help you evaluate every page on your site for effective search engine optimization. The SEO checklist is divided into 5 sections - high priority, medium priority, and low priority SEO tips, things to avoid doing, and things to never do unless you want to be banned from search engines.

Your Layout Can Impact your SEO
The order of your HTML can make a big difference in the placement of your pages in search engines. This is because search engines read HTML in a linear fashion, and whatever content comes first is given slightly higher importance by the search engines. So your layout can affect how your site ranks in search engines. By using a CSS layout to put your content layer first in the HTML, you can get better rankings.

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
If you want your Web page to rank well in search engines, you need to learn how to do search engine optimization or SEO. Search engine optimization is a technique where you make your pages as easy to read by search engine robots as it is for your customers to read. And once your pages are easy to read by the robots, they can determine what your page is about, and rank it in their database.

Every Page is an Entry Page
If you want someone to find your Web site, does it really matter if they find your home page or some other page on your Web site? Many people focus so heavily on optimizing their home page for search engines, that they forget that other pages on their site might be easier to optimize and result in more page views.

Frames and Search Engines
Frames can make your site harder to find in search engines, but they really aren't that incompatible if you're careful

Search Engine Optimization Made Simple
Search engine optimization can be as simple or as hard as you want it to be. These five steps make search engine optimization easy and fun. You'll have your pages optmized for search quicker than you think. And you'll get more page views when you use these tips for search engine optimization.