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Common Coding Errors that are Bad for SEO

According to Bing Webmaster Center’s Rick DeJarnette some of the most common errors that can tank a site include: An invalid mark-up code – To make sure that your mark-up code is valid use a validator such as the W3C Markup Validation Service. Of course when validating you should know which errors to look out for by asking the following questions: * Does your file contain a document type declaration (DTD) statement? * Are all of your tags closed properly? * Are your tags written in lower case ... 0 Comments

White Hat SEO

There is a saying that goes ?The good guys always finish last.? Perhaps that is why there are people who resort to black hat methods to get their page rankings up. Yet there is such a thing as ethical SEO, as featured in a previous post. Ethical SEO does not mean you will not get your site high up in search directories nor will it take you forever. In fact, it guarantees lasting results. Just as there are black hat methods, at the other end of the spectrum we have white had methods. ... 0 Comments

How Far Will SEO Take You?

Last post I said that I'll be discussing some ways wherein you can SEO for directories. However, I decided to put that off till next time and tackle the important subject on SEO and your expectations and its limitations. It is true that SEO plays a vital role in web design and that if you do hope to get to be on the first page of SERPs you'd better employ good SEO techniques. But just how far can SEO really take you? We know that with SEO you website has a greater chance of being indexed ... 0 Comments

Meta Tags Are Dead

Traffick.com's Andrew Goodman wrote recently in an essay about meta tags: "If somebody would just declare the end of the metatag era, full stop, it would make it easier on everyone." I'm happy to oblige, at least in the case of the meta keywords tag. Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine- Inktomi - the value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth the time. In my opinion, the meta keywords tag is dead, dead, dead. And like Andrew, good ... 0 Comments

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