SEO - Useful Resources

If you want to list down your Book, Website or any other resources related to Search Engine Optimization then please contact us at webmaster@tutorialspoint.com Useful Links on SEO Google Webmaster Guidelines - A list of guidelines which will help you to optimize your site for googlebot. SEO Article from Wikipedia - A nice article on SEO from Wikipedia. It has other useful links as well. SEO Professionals - This is is non-profit...

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SEO Techniques Summary

This is the end of this tutorial and I hope now you have a good knowledge and at least you would need any other help to optimize your web site. We have covered almost all major concepts related to Search Engine Optimization. Now you are familiar with most frequently used SEO related terminology as well. You have learnt how to optimize keywords, title, alt, meta tags, anchor and other text from SEO point of view. You also have learnt importance of having good content in your web site and in Miscellaneous Techniques chapter we have suggested...

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SEO - Miscellaneous Techniques

There are various other tips related to SEO. I have not categorized them into any special category so putting in misc category. Go through these tips one by one Don't do the followings: Don't keep hidden text on your web pages. Don't create alt image spamming by putting wrong keywords. Don't use meta tags stuffing. Don't use frames and flash on your site. Don't exchange your links with black listed sites. Don't try to fool your site visitors by using miss spelled keyword. Don't send spam emails to thousand of email IDs. Don't...

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SEO - Link Building

Link building is the SEO practice of obtaining links from external web sites to your own to improve both direct referrals ie. people clicking on the links and search engine ranking. Link building is all about increasing your site link popularity. Web site Crawler will go to a site again and again whose ranking in Search Engine is high. You can verify this fact by putting your site on a high rank site. If your site link is available on a high rank web site then you have 99.99% chances that you site will be indexed with-in 24Hrs. How to increase...

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SEO - Hiring an Expert

Creating, editing, and promoting unique high-quality content is difficult and time consuming. If you are really serious about SEO and you are not getting expected result then better choice is to hire an SEO expert. There are following tasks which should be taken care by SEO experts Code validation and clean up - Ensure that code is SE Friendly and standards compliant. Site Structure - Building a semantic structure/theme and ensure URL's are spider friendly. On Page optimization - Page Title, copy writing, Call to action etc. Quality...

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SEO - Verifying Web Site

You design and develop a web site but how would you know if you have put all the HTML syntax in correct way. Almost all browser don't complain against your wrong syntax but wrong is wrong. There are many SEO experts who claim that SEO is not dependent on site HTML/XHTML verification. But I will tell you various reasons why your site should be W3C Compliance. Why HTML/XHTML Verification is Required? There are various reasons to verify your web page before hosting it over the internet. Any web page quality depends on how well you have...

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SEO - Content is the King

Content is basically includes what you see on the site: the text, graphics and even links to outside world. I would condemn using excessive graphics because they are not Search Engine Friendly plus users feel irritation when they get downloaded specially over a slow network. Thousands of articles, books and forum entries detail how to make your site search engine friendly, but ultimately, one rule stands above the rest: Content is king. But I will say this rule is past now and I would like to say Unique, high-quality, unduplicated...

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SEO - Optimized Anchor

Use descriptive anchor text for all your text links. Most search engines consider anchor text of incoming links when ranking pages. Here is an example of anchor: <a href="otherpage.htm" title="Anchor Title">Anchor Text</a> Here are following important points to notice about anchors: The Anchor Title plays a very important roles and will be seen by most of the search engines. So your anchor title should have appropriate keywords. Anchor title will help site visitors using a balloon and displaying written text. The Anchor...

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SEO - Title Optimization

Hope you understand the meaning of HTML TITLE tag which is put inside head tag. The page title (not to be confused with the heading for a page) is what is displayed in the title bar of your browser window, and is also what is displayed when you bookmark a page or add it to your browser Favorites. This is the one place on a web page where your keywords MUST be present. Correct use of keywords in the title of every page of your website is extremely important to Google - particularly for the home page. If you do nothing else to optimize...

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SEO - Optimized Metatags

There are two important Meta Tags and they are the meta description and meta keyword tags. Some search engines may display the meta description as part of the search results, but the meta keywords tags should not appear in search results. The general consensus among SEO experts is that meta tags are dead. Even so, many of these same experts continue to use meta tags in their own sites. For Google adding the Description Meta Tag won't result in a boost in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), but the description might be used for the description...

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SEO - Optimized Keywords

We are discussing everything in Web context so in web terminology a keyword is a term that a person enters into a search engine to find specific information. Most people enter search phrases that consists of between two and five words. Such phrases may be called search phrases, keyword phrases, query phrases, or just keywords. Good keyword phrases are specific and descriptive. There are following concepts related to Keywords which helps in optimizing keywords on a web page. Keyword Frequency: This is calculated as how often does a keyword...

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