SEO Tips

The SEO (search engine optimization) tips presented here are perfect for the webmaster who has only recently become aware of the issue of search engine ranking and search engine optimization. However, these tips also include many optimization techniques for more experienced web site designers who have seen their search engine rankings decline and want help to recover their prior ranking. Overall, the goal is to increase qualified traffic to your site, and not to mindlessly seek top ten search engine results.

Don't hire an expensive SEO company, or even an affordable service like mine, until you've browsed through my search engine optimization tips. The essentials of improving your website's rankings in search engines are very simple: Make the primary topic of each web page stand out clearly and prominently, provide a clean structure of links to your website's individual pages, and create as many high-quality paths between your website and other websites whose topic is related to yours as you reasonably can.

With these SEO tips as your guide, you could do your own search engine optimization. But, as the saying goes, God is truly in the details when it comes to search engine optimization, and so I have filled these pages with easy-to-follow search engine optimization tips. Just start at page 1 - "Preparing Your Website," and you'll find more than enough information to put your website on the road to high search engine rankings.

Any information you find about search engine optimization that was written before 2002 should be ignored. Old computer books that have any information about search engine optimization tend to be limited to advising webmasters to overstuff the Keywords and Description <META> tags. That used to be enough to give you a leg up in the search engine rankings against your relatively uninformed competition, but the major search engines now all but ignore <META> tags in terms of ranking webpages. And even books that are all about search engines should be considered in light of their age. Web pages live forever, so scour them for any indication of their age. The search engines are in a constant battle to keep ahead of schemers who try to fill them with SPAM, so they change their ranking methods frequently. I update my SEO tips regularly, too, in order to keep them relevant and accurate.

If, after you've read my search engine optimization tips, you would like to have some experienced eyes check out your website's search engine effectiveness, please visit my Search Engine Optimization Services page where you can ask for my FREE Search Engine Evaluation for your website to show you what you're doing right, what you're doing wrong, and how I could help you in the future. There's no charge, no obligation, and no risk of SPAM.

SEO Tips Menu

Preparing Your Website for Search Engine Spiders

Optimization Common Mistakes

Get Higher Google Ranking

Search Engine Ranking Factors

Getting Links for Your Site

Redesign Your Web Pages For Higher Ranking

Finding Keywords for Search Engines

Search Engines and Frames

The Dreaded Missing WWWs Syndrome

Multiple Domain Names Problems

Search Engine Optimization Myths

Google's PageRank Explained

Site Redirect Without .htaccess

Why Did My Site's Google Ranking Drop?

Tracking Codes in Your Links/URLs

HTTP Server Response Header Checker

How To Tell If A Site is Banned

How To Set Your Website's Geo-location