As a general rule, get linked from websites within your particular discipline. This is important for two reasons:
1. The more people see you linked to within a particular discipline, the more impressed they are likely to be, as Web linking is akin to word-of-mouth. If people see links to you on lots of other websites, that’s a major credibility builder.
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Another extremely effective method for doing keyword research involves using the subscription fee-based Keyword Discovery research tool, located at www.keyworddiscovery.com. Keyword Discovery is available for a monthly or yearly subscription fee and offers a wealth of information to aid in your keyword research.
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Search-engine optimization (SEO) is often a tedious job and requires you to perform numerous tasks over and over. Fortunately, you can install SEO plug-ins onto your computer that enable you to save time and more efficiently carry out your SEO efforts.
Browser plug-ins have become increasingly popular because of the sheer amount of time they save during the search-engine-optimization process. Now, instead of browsing to several different Web sites to research your information, you can view all the data right from one spot in your Web browser.
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Notes
You will need to register for each of these Social Bookmark sites before you can submit anything.
PS: I will be adding comments to these mid-June or so …
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The most important place to submit your web site is not to search engines, but rather to search engine directories. Smaller and even large search engines regularly add content based on the directories. If you have a local site, make sure you submit to Yahoo local directories and online yellow page sites.
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Here is an easy way to add Adsense to any page. I offer more details below on how to find background colors for GooglePageCreator (GPC).
* 1) Get the appropriate Adsense code and upload it as a file such as ads_hightower.htm.
* 2) Edit the page where you want the ads to appear and insert:
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Use these tips to optimize your web site pages. Your pages should be written with your visitors in mind but created so that search engines can find them.
1) Research Good Keywords
Before you do anything else, think about what a user would type into a search engine to find your site. Then, use online keyword research tools to see what was really typed into search engines. (I list a few on the “SEO Tools” page.) Next, make sure your page really uses these keywords.
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By: Evan Pattak
In the earliest days of the Internet, deploying your Web site as a marketing tool was as much voodoo as it was science. Companies designed pretty sites, threw in a few interactive features as they became available and hoped for the best. Today, Web site marketing has become a sophisticated and hotly competitive arena; indeed, some e-commerce companies rely on it exclusively.
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