Web Design http://www.web-design-world.com Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Content Formatting (Bolding and Italics) http://www.web-design-world.com/content-formatting-bolding-and-italics.html http://www.web-design-world.com/content-formatting-bolding-and-italics.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:30:49 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/content-formatting-bolding-and-italics.html Search Engines also place extra importance on words that are placed in bold and italics. Be sure to bold and italicize keywords/phrases within the body of your content. (more…)

]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/content-formatting-bolding-and-italics.html/feed Lists (Ordered and Unordered) http://www.web-design-world.com/lists-ordered-and-unordered.html http://www.web-design-world.com/lists-ordered-and-unordered.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:23:56 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/lists-ordered-and-unordered.html Search engines LOVE lists. Most search engines like Google consider the contents in a list to be very important to the content of the page. Therefore whenever possible try to include a list in our page containing your keywords. Generally I throw this list underneath my

tag.

Example of an Optimized Unordered List:

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]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/lists-ordered-and-unordered.html/feed Title Tags and Headings http://www.web-design-world.com/title-tags-and-headings.html http://www.web-design-world.com/title-tags-and-headings.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:17:28 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/title-tags-and-headings.html The Title tag and Headings are very important to search engines. These tags account for a huge amount of weight on your page. The 3 most important tags that the search engines look for to determine what your pages content is about is the \ \ and \ tags.The \ tagMake sure that your keyword / keyphrase is displayed first in the title. Try to avoid more than 4 words as each word dilutes the value of the keyphrase. (more…)

]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/title-tags-and-headings.html/feed Site Popularity - Linking Strategies http://www.web-design-world.com/site-popularity-linking-strategies.html http://www.web-design-world.com/site-popularity-linking-strategies.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:16:26 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/site-popularity-linking-strategies.html Site Popularity is often used by search engines to determine your sites ranking. The more websites that link to you the more popular your site will be considered by search engines. However not all links are treated the same. Links coming from sites with related content are given higher weight than othersPaid Links Reciprocal Links Directory Submission Article Submission Social Bookmarking Forum Signatures Reciprocal LinksReciprocal links are not as effective for search engine rankings as they used to be but can be effective for driving traffic to your site, especially if the site you are linking to has a high volume of traffic.On reciprocal link methodology that is effective is 3-way linking. A three way link structure would look as follows:Site A ==> Site B ==> Site C ==> Site ADirectory SubmissionDirectory submission is still effective in generating backlinks to increase your sites popularity. Some of the top search engine directories to submit to are:www.dmoz.org www.searchsite.com dir.yahoo.com www.jayde.com Paid Directories vs. (more…)

]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/site-popularity-linking-strategies.html/feed HTML Attributes http://www.web-design-world.com/html-attributes.html http://www.web-design-world.com/html-attributes.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:13:51 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/html-attributes.html Search engines pay close attention to descriptive attributes in HTML tags as this will tell them what the content on your page is about. Some very important attributes include:summary=alt=title=The summary attribute should be used in the first table tag on the page. This will let the seach engine know what the content is about in that table. Use the keyword you are targetting in the attribute.Summary Tag Example: (more…)

]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/html-attributes.html/feed Anchor Texts http://www.web-design-world.com/anchor-texts.html http://www.web-design-world.com/anchor-texts.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:09:20 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/anchor-texts.html Anchor Texts are important for both on and off-page optimization. For on-page optimization it is recommended that you build a good site navigational structure that makes it not only easy for humans to navigate your pages, but search engine spiders as well.

Broken Anchor Texts can lower your search engine rankings so ensure you have no broken links on your website.

Make sure the links on your page are related to the content or theme of the page and website.

Good SEO practice when adding links on your page is to ensure that you use the keywords you are targeting for that page in the Anchor Text as well as in the title attribute. Even more important is if you make the anchor text/title match the title/h1 tag of the page the link is pointing to. (more…)

]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/anchor-texts.html/feed Domain Maturity http://www.web-design-world.com/domain-maturity.html http://www.web-design-world.com/domain-maturity.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:04:54 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/domain-maturity.html Search engines place high value on the age of domains and the length of registration for a domain name. The age of your site signifies to the search engines that you have some amount of stability and authority.

While at the other hand the length of the domain registration increases your trust to the search engines. The longer the registration the more likely you are to have a trustworthy site. (more…)

]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/domain-maturity.html/feed Comprehensive SEO Guide to Increase Your Search Engine Ranking http://www.web-design-world.com/comprehensive-seo-guide-to-increase-your-search-engine-ranking.html http://www.web-design-world.com/comprehensive-seo-guide-to-increase-your-search-engine-ranking.html#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:03:20 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/comprehensive-seo-guide-to-increase-your-search-engine-ranking.html Things that this article will cover which search engines use to determine your positioning are:
Domain Maturity
Anchor Texts
HTML Attributes
Site Popularity - Linking Strategies
Title Tags and Headings
Lists (Ordered and Unordered)
Content Formatting (Bolding and Italics)
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]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/comprehensive-seo-guide-to-increase-your-search-engine-ranking.html/feed How exactly do search engines detect cloaking? http://www.web-design-world.com/how-exactly-do-search-engines-detect-cloaking.html http://www.web-design-world.com/how-exactly-do-search-engines-detect-cloaking.html#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:11:19 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/how-exactly-do-search-engines-detect-cloaking.html Search engines try to discover cloakers by using a number of techniques:

By visiting using an IP address which is not registered to their company.

By visiting using a non-spider user agent

By comparing caches from different sources that they own; i.e., from their main spider and from their page accelerator

By comparing caches from different sources that they don’t own; i.e., from their main spider and from some other company’s cache

By using an algorithmic process to identify likely candidates and using human editors to verify.
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]]> http://www.web-design-world.com/how-exactly-do-search-engines-detect-cloaking.html/feed how do i use links to improve my web ranking http://www.web-design-world.com/how-do-i-use-links-to-improve-my-web-ranking.html http://www.web-design-world.com/how-do-i-use-links-to-improve-my-web-ranking.html#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:07:34 +0000 admin http://www.web-design-world.com/how-do-i-use-links-to-improve-my-web-ranking.html 1. You better off getting one-way quality backlinks from sites related to yours, don’t worry about Pagerank, worry about relevancy.

2. Unless it is a relevant quality link it shouldn’t appear on any of your web pages to begin with, providing links sololy to boost your search engine rankings aren’t the proper way to build backlinks.

3. Review the quality guidelines for each of the major search engines, should answer this question easily.
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