When you’re building a new website or completely renovating an old one, it’s important to create your design in a search engine friendly way. The choices you make are going to be with you for a long time and errors will be very time-consuming to repair at a later stage. In other parts of this site, we’ve looked at how to make individual pages rank well. Now, let’s focus on website optimization and examine your site as a whole. We’ll go over the design techniques and principles that the search engines like, but we’ll also take a brief glimpse at some potential...

Submitting a website to search engines typically means that most search engines automatically look at websites looking for links and popularity to determine how they list on search engine results, one site that doesn?t is DMOZ. Also known as the Open Directory Project or ODP, this directory is entirely monitored by people (volunteer editors), this means that you have to submit your site and wait for somebody to physically look at your site. This process can take weeks, months, or even in a few cases years, so why bother with this site at all? For starters it?s where Google goes to index sites (you...

How to Get a High Google Page Rank What is Google Page Rank? Google Page Rank is your overall ranking within Google’s search engine for a specific keyword. For example if you have an article titled “How to go Trout Fishing” then you would want to target the keyword “trout fishing.” If you can target the keyword well enough you will have a high Google Page Rank, meaning you will probably and most likely will target your key audience who are searching that keyword. Google Trends Google Trends are relevant keywords that are currently trending. Kind of like how in a certain...

So it seems, looking at the title of this post on Yahoo’s blog: http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2010/03/30/12-stellar-seo-tools/ which is a good round up of the most popular and serious seo services. I’m no big fan of technical seo, as I think what really matters is the large number of human beings that do not care about seo, and link freely to whatever they find interesting. Anyway, time to reach for the...

Three benefits, you say? Only three? You must be joking! Well, I say, what?s wrong with three? The number three is more than good enough for a large variety of venues. In the holy Roman Church, they?ve got the Trinity of the Son, the Father and the Holy Ghost. On television, there are reruns of Three?s Company. In baseball, it?s ?Three strikes and you?re out!? And with pay-per-click advertising on the Internet (think Google Adwords), referred to too as just PPC (and no, that?s not some kind of brain-scrambling chemical that turns you into a raving, drooling idiot being billy-clubbed by cops...