Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Search Engine Optimization

A couple good blog items with links for checking SEO... probably worth checking out on a couple of my websites that it's important for...


http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2008/06/15-free-seo-tools-to-check-keyword-density/


This website has several cool SEO tools (free) -- including keyword suggestions and clouds based on what the search engine sees. The specific article talks about 10 mistakes that people make for SEO:
http://www.webconfs.com/top-10-seo-mistakes-article-24.php

A good article to think about some other tips:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2009/02/03/optimizing-your-very-large-site-for-search-part-3.aspx

For example:
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals

As with sports skills, no matter how good you get, you need to ensure that you have your fundamentals down. There's no difference in the world of RIAs. Your site needs to provide:

* Unique page titles
* Detailed meta page descriptions
* Quality body copy (e.g. timely, relevant, well written)
* Descriptive H1 tags (one per page)
* Discoverable navigation
* Informative ALT tags

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Use keywords in the urls.
Use metatag of title on every page.
Make sure the content matches the keywords.
Check out the tools in the above website to see what's being pulled together.

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