SEO Information for Webmasters

SEO is an acronym for "search engine optimization". It is the process of analyzing your potential design and problems for search engines indexing and positioning. In other words, making your web site and its content attractive, relevant and visible to search engines and web searchers.

There is nothing worse than having a beautiful web site with excellent written content, though you still lose traffic or you even keep potential visitors away, while your site cannot be found.

Before you begin optimizing your pages for Search Engines, consider that the following search engine optimization techniques are SPAM!

* automatically generated doorway pages
* cloaking and false redirects
* keyword stuffing
* hidden text or hidden links
* pages loaded with irrelevant words
* duplicated content on multiple pages
* misspelling of well-known web sites
* unrelated and centralized link farms
* other methods that try to trick search engines

If you use one of the above techniques, you might get short term results, but it's most likely that your site will be banned from search engines, and therefore you will put your business at severe risk.-

Good luck with Search Engine Optimization,

webnauts.net/curriculum.html/ John S. Britsios
Web Architect & Trainer


SEO Code of Ethics
* Search Engine Optimization Code of Ethics [url]
bruceclay.com/web_ethics.htm

Search Engines Guidelines for Webmasters
* Google Webmaster Guidelines google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
* Yahoo! Search Site Guidelines help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.html
* MSN Guidelines for Webmasters search.msn.com.my/webmasters/guidelines.aspx
* Ask Jeeves Guidelines for Webmasters sp.ask.com/docs/about/policy.html
* Open Directory Editorial Guidelines dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html
* Zeal Guidelines Overview zeal.com/guidelines/overview.jhtml
* Overture's SiteMatchâ„¢ Content Guidelines content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/sm_gl.jhtml

Search Engines Information for Webmasters
* Google Information for Webmasters google.com/webmasters/bot.html

SEO Tutorials
* Basics of search engine optimisation 456bereastreet.com/archive/200502/basics_of_search_engine_optimisation/
* Website Promotion Tutorials by instantPROMOTION instantposition.com/website-promotion

SEO TIPS
* SEO Toolkit 21 part guide to getting a top-10 listing on Google and Yahoo rlrouse.com/SEO.html
* Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines highrankings.com/tentips.htm

Free Online SEO Tools
* instantPROMOTION SEO Tools instantposition.com/free_tools.cfm
* SEO Scanner webmasterbrain.com
* Keyword Density & Prominence ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
* Meta Tag Analyzer submitexpress.com/analyzer/
* Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords
* Web Site Analysis sitesolutions.com/analysis.asp
* Free Robots.txt Generator mcanerin.com/search-engine/robots-txt.htm
* Robots.txt syntax checker sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html
* Robots.txt Validator searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/robotcheck.cgi
* Google Banned Tool 123promotion.co.uk/tools/googlebanned.php

Free SEO Desktop Tools
* WebCEO webceo.com
* Good Keywords goodkeywords.com
* Free Monitor for Google cleverstat.com/google-monitor-query.htm

Web site submission
* Google google.com/addurl/
* Yahoo! yahoo.com/config/
* MSN /search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

Search Engine Spammer Reporting
* Overture, AllTheWeb feedback@Overture.com
* AltaVista altavista.com/help/contact/search
* Google, AOL google.com/contact/spamreport.html
* Ask Jeeves sp.ask.com/docs/about/contact_tuwyt.php
* DMOZ / ODP report-abuse.dmoz.org
* Lycos help.lycos.com/watchdog/watchdog_1_help.asp
* Inktomi, MSN reportspam@inktomi.com
* Teoma ask@teoma.com
* Yahoo reportsearchspam@yahoo-inc.com

SEO Discussion Forums
* Webnauts Net forums.webnauts.net
* Digitalpoint forums.digitalpoint.com
* Google Community googlecommunity.com
* Search Engine Forums searchengineforums.com

SEO joke
* A declaration of the abbreviation SPAM:
S = SITES
P = PLACED
A = ABOVE
M = MINE

[Paul_KY]

"duplicated content on multiple pages"

This is not true in all cases.

Originally Posted by Paul_KY

"duplicated content on multiple pages"

This is not true in all cases.

Can you be more specific? In which cases is that not true?

[Paul_KY]

"Can you be more specific? In which cases is that not true?"

In my case, where some of my sites have the same exact message, yet simply targets a different audience with the same concept.

Originally Posted by Paul_KY

"Can you be more specific? In which cases is that not true?"

In my case, where some of my sites have the same exact message, yet simply targets a different audience with the same concept.

I don't understand. Do you mean that you duplicate content parts of other pages?

[Paul_KY]

With all due respect, that's about as far as I'd like to go in sharing. Perhaps I should have butted out of this one. My bad.

a pretty decent article - is there any magasine for webmasters that you could submit it to?

Originally Posted by PrivateInvestigator

a pretty decent article - is there any magasine for webmasters that you could submit it to?

I will probably publish it as an article on my new web site coming online soon, and later on I will sure publish it in some magazines. :armada1:

Originally Posted by Paul_KY

With all due respect, that's about as far as I'd like to go in sharing. Perhaps I should have butted out of this one. My bad.

I was just referring to the Google guidelines:

"Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content." More here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

[Paul_KY]

"Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content."

Don't believe everything you read from Google. I go by personal experience and the advice of others through their years of personal experience, also.

On a side note, once you come up with the all mighty "SEO Magic Solution", the ALGO changes.

SEO has a lot to do with constant tweaking.