Your website is ready. Your content is in place, you have optimized your pages. What is the last thing you should do before uploading your hard work? Validate. It is surprising how many people do not validate the source code of their web pages before putting them online.
The Truth About Search engines
The Myths
You can be on the search engines top 10 list.
Sitemaps and Hypertext Links: “Food” for Search Engine Robots
Sitemaps and hypertext links are “food” for search engine robots. We will look at the value of text links for optimal spidering, and the importance of using a sitemap in order to help search engine robots reach your website’s deeper pages.
Learn promotion through the search engines
You hear all the time that you need to get listed in all of the major search engines. You also hear that you need to be on the first or second page to really see any traffic from them.
Search Engine Specifics
We are all told that we need to promote to the major search engines to get free targeted traffic to our websites.
Search engines – Pay for ranking
Pay for ranking search engines are a highly effective way to attract inexpensive, targeted traffic to your website. Traditional search engines require you to submit your website, and then may take anywhere from several weeks to many months to list your website. And, there are no guarantees that your site will appear anywhere on the first 1000 pages!
Winning the Search Engine Game
Many search engine submission services want to make you believe that they have the only answer to search engine optimization. The search engine game, like any other game, is easy to play and win once you know the rules of the game.
The True Search Engine Secrets!
The search engines are constantly changing and a few years ago, it was very difficult to get your web site ranked. However today it is relatively easy. According to online ratings, Google & Yahoo now have over 65% of the Internet audience and we will demonstrate how you can take advantage of the traffic.
Reader Response to Search Engines and Font Tags
In a recent SEO Corner, a reader asked Shari Thurow how search engines are affected by various body elements. Web designer Lee Roberts offers some additional comments to her response.
Identity Theft and Your Online Job Search
While identity theft is nothing new, the Web has opened up whole new world of opportunity for identity thieves.
According the FBI, identity theft is the top online fraud. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says that identity theft is it’s number one source of consumer complaints – 42 percent of all complaints, in 2001.