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SEO SERVICES & TIPS

Search Engines
Search engines look at a web site and then determine the appropriate listing of it. Search engines use programs called robots or spiders to "crawl" the web in search of web sites. Search Engines differ on how they list sites, some will use the relevance of the key words to the sites content, others will use popularity or other combinations of methods.

Search Engines to register with
Alta Vista, Excite, Goggle, Hotbot, Infoseek, Lycos,WebCrawler and Yahoo account for most search results on the web.

How long does it take to be listed?
Expect to wait up to 6 weeks or more.

How to get to the top of the search engines?
We all can't be at the top —It's just that simple. There are many companies and services guaranteeing they can get you there. Read on and you will see what can do to achieve results.

Page Rank
Due to the popularity of Goggle and the successful methods they use to list web pages, many search engines have adopted Goggles system of Page Rank, as a means to list relevance search results.

The system tracks how many links are directed to a site. The links are also viewed in terms of their quality. Quality links could be determined by their web sites overall popularity or relevance to your web sites content. The more sites that are linking to yours the better off you are.

Web Sites that Link to your site only helps your position when the search engines are aware of them!

Getting Quality Links
Get listed in the Open Directory, www.dmoz.org, its free and many search engines use the data that is stored there in their own search results.

Yahoo is another directory that counts as a high quality link. Yahoo like the Open Directory is compiled by human editors.

Contact the webmaster of a site and ask to exchange links. Sometimes purchasing high quality links from sites is also done.

Meta Tags & Content
Reports claim 50% of the traffic to your site will come from a "Search" from one of the major search engines.

You can find many SEO services that claim listing your site in the the "top 10". Honestly, all you can do is make your site Search Engine friendly as possible. And Meta Tags are one of throws ways.

Start with carefully chosen keywords, use many of these keywords in your Title and Description Tags as well. Examples below show how to write to Meta Tags code and recommended lengths.

• Your "Keywords" should have no more than 1000 characters
  < meta name="keywords" content="YOUR KEY WORDS">
  
• Your "Title" should have no more than 60 characters
  < meta http-equiv= "title" content= "Your Info">
  
• Your "Description" should have no more than150 characters
  <meta name="description" content="YOUR Info">
  

Other things to consider regarding keywords

• Make Key words plural
• List important keywords first
• Don't hide key words in the background
• Don't use HTML frames
• Use the keywords within the content (verbiage) of your site

 

A good site for analyzing your key words and meta tags: http://www.widexl.com/
A good web site with information about search engines: http://searchenginewatch.com