Wednesday, December 2, 2009

5 Ways to Search Engine Optimization

Sometimes getting yourself listed in search engines requires following certain rules set by the moderators of search engines and those considered by webmasters as white hat or ethical.
What are these? Here are 5 great ways to search engine optimization:
1. Focus on your title tag. Title tags are important as they are the ones that come up when a person searches information through the Internet. Make sure that it is short, at most 60 characters, and are made up of between 8 and 10 words.
2. Go for light pages. Though HTML codes are friendlier than other types of website coding, it's still best to use them less. This way, your web pages can be indexed much faster. It doesn't take so long too for your visitors to download them into their PCs. Make sure it's just 100KB or lesser than that.
3. Avoid using Flash. Flash will not only make download time so much longer, but they aren't also indexed by search engines. Therefore, there's practically no use spending so much time to it. Rather, focus on your contents, such as articles and useful images.
4. Use static HTML. Unless it's very much necessary to settle for dynamic websites, when you constantly need to change your data, go for static HTML. It's much cheaper to build, easier to publish, and more convenient to index by search engine spiders. Moreover, it doesn't eat too much bandwidth, so your users can directly download them without much of a hassle.
5. Use PDFs sparingly. Though they do get indexed by search engines, they can hang a PC and are more annoying than HTML-based texts. Thus, use them sparingly. Only those that you think would be worthy to be downloaded and stored in your visitors' hard drives should be converted to PDF files.
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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 9034 articles in print and 14 published ebooks.