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ramgay · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

Hi,

If you are a newbie and new to search engine optimization and start with your first website then following this will help you to improve it.

1) Decide who will be the audience of your website
2) Prepare unique, informative, descriptive content related to your website
3) Forget search engines, think about the visitors or users of the website.
4) Make clean navigation structure. (all the inner page should be reachable at the maximum of 2 clicks from the home page)
5) Give clear, precise title, it should be readable and should tempt the user to visit your site.
6)Try to remove broken links, set proper, customized 404 pages
7)Put a site map
8)think of as a user of your website and see what is missing and what can be improved.
8)Regularly update the website, especially home page
9)do the link exchange in a normal speed.

chrishirst · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Blackpool

Well I'm

First time I've seen a bunch of tips in a first post and agree with most of them.

8 ) Not a concern at all. Update if you need to, don't if you have nothing new. Updating for the sake of it is often detrimental. You have to consider that SEs have multiple datacentres that are not all synchronised, each time you change something, those changes have to be propogated around the DCs and as each change may take several days to fully synch, it could be creating the often seen "disappearing home page" trick.

9 ) There is no such thing as a "normal" speed. If you really must do the "link exchange thing" and the vast majority of sites do not really benefit from exchanges with any site that plays that game, just do it as they come along.
There is no "too fast" or "too many per day/week/month/blue moon"
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Chris.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Josh-A · Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 20 Location: UK

chrishirst · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Blackpool