[liydjw3]

1. Create unique, accurate page titles
2. Make use of the "description" meta tag
3. Improve the structure of your URLs
4. Make your site easier to navigate
5. Offer quality content and services
6. Write better anchor text
7. Use heading tags appropriately
8. Optimize your use of images
9. Make effective use of robots.txt
10. Be aware of rel="nofollow" for links
11. Promote your website in the right ways
12. Make use of free webmaster tools
13. Take advantage of web analytics services

[S3 Web Design]

All very well but anyone who understands what your list means probably does not need it. Most people trying to SEO their websites themselves will not understand from your list what they need to actually do - so how much help is this list? I have written the start of an idiot's guide to keywords on our website - I only started it today so it's not complete but proper articles are much more help than lists which novices won't understand anyway.

[BlueDreamer]

Spamming are we?
http://www.sitepoint...ad.php?t=647290

[KieranA]

I don't think you understand - This site will have a better weighting than the dire site you're advertising, that way this will show up as one of the top results. SEO tip #1.

You've practically foiled the attempts of your business being successful, congratulations.

[liydjw3]

I love how wrong you are.

[darrenbale]

I have to say though I like this one

Sitepoint thread

It reminded me of bluedreamers post on here.

[lazytycoon]

haha nice find darren

[KieranA]

liydjw3, on 16 November 2009 - 01:15 AM, said:

I love how wrong you are.

I'm not the one asking people to post fake results on my site.

[thefandango]

Oh very dear.

[rgbdzine]

Great tips. It should be useful for seo profession.

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[thefandango]

Nah, it won't.

rgbdzine, on 30 November 2009 - 06:05 PM, said:

Great tips. It should be useful for seo profession.

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[lein ski]

Thanks for the tips, but maybe you can elaborate a bit? I'm new at doing SEO, and I'm particularly interested in number 4.

[lee grant]

lein ski, on 07 December 2009 - 06:19 AM, said:

Thanks for the tips, but maybe you can elaborate a bit? I'm new at doing SEO, and I'm particularly interested in number 4.

Basically try and make your website organised and the pages easily accessable to people who want to view them. Don't make your navigation so complex it leaves the user confused.

[S3 Web Design]

Hi lein ski try reading this Smashing Magazine article about navigation.

[Sinero Web Design]

I think SEO is important but not necessary required to get a good position and here is the reason why. A local business asked us to take a look at the website to see why they are no longer on the first page on a popular keyword anymore. The website was shocking it had

NO Document Type (DTD)
100's of JavaScript Errors
No Meta Data or Website Title
No H1 , H2 Tags
No IMG Alt Tags

I checked with Google and he had a good page rank and site had been indexed and was coming out on first page of Google from a single keyword !

[S3 Web Design]

It does rather depend on the particular keyword and the competition plus if the content was good then G will index it. You really don't know how well it would perform if those things were corrected!

[Navi379]

burned! first things first avoid cross posting of thread on different forums.
Respect other forums

[cuinee]

liydjw3, on 15 November 2009 - 08:55 PM, said:

8. Optimize your use of images

Use alt attributes when describing images.

[googlemonster]

liydjw3, on 15 November 2009 - 08:55 PM, said:

11. Promote your website in the right ways

Care to elaborate on what is right and what is wrong?