What are meta tags? Meta tags are hidden HTML tags used to describe various aspects about a Web page. The two most important meta tags are the meta description and meta keywords tags. Let’s take a closer look at each meta tag. Sample meta tags: Meta description tags The contents of meta description tags are [...]

Guide to link popularity and how it affects your search engine rankings. Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites and is an extremely important method of improving your site’s relevancy in search engines. There are three types of links that will increase the link popularity of your site; [...]

Find out how keywords can have a huge influence on your search engine rankings. Keywords contained within a Web page are the most important element to achieving high search engine rankings. Keywords are by no means the only relevant factor in how search engines rank a Web page. Other factors also count. But the majority [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves making Web pages more search engine friendly to promote them as the most relevant solutions for the search engines’ users. The improvements can mean the difference between achieving top rankings, which can result in thousands of monthly visitors, and being lost in oblivion. Why is search engine optimization important? A [...]

Most of the major search engines give the most relevance to keywords in the title tags within the Web page. As such, every page should have a title tag. In general, I have found that short keyword rich descriptions in title tags work best. Good title tag: Not so good title tag: Header tags Many [...]

How to submit your web site to the top web directories. Here are the top 3 web directories that you should submit to. Yahoo! Yahoo! is the leading web directory generating hundreds of millions of search related page views every day. Yahoo! offers 2 submission programs: Standard submission is for non-commercial web sites only. The [...]

If your site isn’t found in the search engines, it is probably because the robots couldn’t deal with it. It could be something as simple as not being able to find the site, or it may be more complicated issues involving the robot’s not being able to crawl the site or figure out what your [...]

One interesting and little known form of SEO is leaving keyword-enriched comments on other people’s blogging sites. This is the secret to SEO success that many bloggers use to attract them to their bummarketing links or to their website selling products. In fact leaving comments on other people’s blogs that are relevant to your own [...]