By Jenny Chollen


Search Engine Optimization is no big mystery, and there is nothing unethical about it. Every website owner who wants to increase his or her site's traffic (i.e., every smart website owner) should be willing to take steps to improve search engine rankings. Here are just a few ways a savvy webmaster can optimize ethically:

You should keep the main pages for each section of your website in the main root folder of your server. That keeps them available to the spider immediately, as opposed to burying them in directory folders. The rest of the pages can be put into folders, though, which is good for organization.

Even a small site can be benefited from having a site map. On some sites, site maps are disguised as a navigation tool bar. This will increase organization, help you and your users find the different pages on your site and increase the exposure of your site to search engine robots.

Although there are many search engines out there, you should focus on the big three and leave the rest alone, to start. Google, Yahoo and Bing are the big boys on the block, with Google controlling the lion's share of the market. So when optimizing your site, stick to the types of things a search engine like Google appreciates. There's no sense in optimizing for Ask or MSN, when there's really no money there.

Keep track of all of the traffic to your website. The very first day that you build your website, you should install tracking software that provides as much data about your visitors as possible. By tracking which keywords they are using to find your site and how they are behaving once they arrive, you can gauge which of your search engine optimization efforts are working and which could use some improvement.

Having an appropriate title will increase traffic to your site. The placement of keywords in your title has a huge impact on determining where a search engine will place your site. The page's title should include some of your site's keywords to increase your ranking in the search engines.

Search engines hate frames, so if you need to use them make sure to include a noframes tag and to create a full version of your site for the noframes client. If the search engines spiders can't read your site then you are never going to move anywhere in the ranks. Creating a noframes site will ensure that you can even be indexed in the search engine.

Every link on a website that leads to an external site should be validated regularly. Links that point to missing content (broken links) are bad news. Not only are broken links annoying to website visitors, they are penalized by search engine indexing algorithms. Fixing or deleting broken links improves a website's position on the search engine results pages.

There simply isn't a website online that could not benefit from increased traffic. Optimizing a website for search engine performance is a fine way to hunt for that increased traffic. Using a few of the previous suggestions may result in immediate improvements to a website's position on the search engine results pages.




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