[thelist] Search Engine Optimization

[Ken Chase]

> 1) Make sure the relevant words are in the title and the content
> 2) Make sure the keywords make up a high percentage of the content, and
> if possible, are closer to the beginning
> 3) Get other sites to link to the site in question

  4) Include a link to your site map on relevant pages (such as the
  homepage) to facilitate site crawling
  5) Use valid and well structured HTML/XHTML
  6) Submit site to directories

Wordtracker[1] is a very helpful research/keyword analysis tool.

I found "Search Engine Visibility" by Shari Thurow to be a very good 
book.

Search Engine Watch[2] is an extremely helpful Web resource

[1]http://www.wordtracker.com/
[2]http://searchenginewatch.com/

kenbo

> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Hello,
> I was wondering wot everybody here's preferred method of search engine 
> optimization would be or if anybody could help point me in the way of 
> undergoing such a task (besides the usual meta tags (arguable), etc), 
> including some going rates of doing so? Reason I ask is a client has
> asked 
> me if I could do such a thing for them at an extra cost and I would like
> to 
> ensure I do as thorough as one as possible.
> Thank you.
> 
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