DIY Search Engine Optimization

Hi guys. Ever wanted to see you site or blog on top of the search results?
If you answer is yes, you may read this post and DIY some Search Engine Optimization.

First own your domain name. Like www.yourdomain.com and Host your site on a reliable server

1 - Shorten the title to 50 chars
2 - Add the robots tag
3 - Place the robots.txt in your root on your server with the following lines in the file
User-agent: *
Allow: /

4 - Get rid of the java script in the code and put it in an external file
5 - Use css instead of colour, size and font tags
5 - Change the link buttons or java script links in to text links
6 - Make sure to have a site map page
7 - Make sure you have 404 page
8 - At the bottom of each page use menus as text links
9 - Make sure your page code is not bigger than 100 K
10 - Submit your site to ODP and Yahoo Dir
11 - Pay special attention to your content
12 - Try to get as much as relevant links you can
13 - Read each search engines guide lines and follow them strictly
14 - Don't spam
15 - Don't use doorway pages
16 - Don't cloak
17 - Always come and ask for advice on this board
18 - And pray hard that the big G appreciates all your efforts

In case you want to know further, do visit my SEO site at www.pixware.net
You will find my contact email there. Feel free to drop a few lines of questions. I will try to reply if it’s not too elaborate.