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Optimizing Design and Development for Search Engines
Within the Design and Development for Search Engines section below, you'll find articles and tutorials on how to design and develop your site not only to be human friendly but also to be search-engine friendly so crawlers can spider your site easily. Tutorials cover search engines in general and also specific tips on optimizing sites for Google, MSN, Yahoo! There are also sections on how to move your site, how to move pages, and related issues - all in a search-engine friendly way. Also included on this page are helpful links to tutorials on how to create and optimize sitemaps for search engines, including Google sitemaps protocol.
Be sure to also see WebsiteTips.com's annotated listing of tutorials about potential penalties or banning by search engines and directories, especially so that you don't do anything unknowingly that could potentially penalize or even ban your Web site from search engines or directories.
Do you know of some helpful, insightful articles, tutorials, books, or resources related to search, SEO, or SEM? Recommendations are welcome and encouraged!
On this page:
- Optimizing Your Web Site Overall - The Big Picture for SEO
- Behind the Scenes SEO Development - CSS, HTML, META, Navigation, Robots.txt
- SEO for Specific Search Engines
- Domain Names, URLs, and SEO, SEM
- Moving Web Pages, Moving Entire Web Sites, Moving Web Hosts, and SEO
- Server-Side SEO
- Sitemaps, Optimizing Sitemaps for Search Engines
- Older Articles, Tutorials
Also within Articles and Tutorials on SEO, SEM, Conversions and ROI, and Search Engines:
- Content, Keyword, Keyphrase Optimization, Writing for Search Engines, and Optimizing Content for SEM, ROI
- Link Building Strategies, Popularity, Optimizing Internal Links
- Potential Penalties or Banning by Search Engines and Directories
- Getting Web Sites Indexed - Submitting to Search Engines, Search Directories, and Pay Per Click Search Engines (CPC/PPC)
- How Search Engines and Search Directories Index, Rank Sites
Also within Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing:
Optimizing Your Web Site Overall - The Big Picture for SEO, SEM
- 10 Steps To Higher Search Engine Positioning
Helpful tips covering choosing appropriate keywords, your site's content, site structure, optimization, internal linking, human testing, submissions, linking building, monitoring progress, and more. [Article/tutorial dated 02/27/2005, by Dave Davies, for evolt.org.] - 20 Hard Core SEO Tips
Insightful list with explanations for each and why they matter and can make a positive difference with improving SERPs (search engine rankings). [Article/tutorial dated 10/16/2007, by Michael Martinez, SEO Theory - SEO Theory and Analysis Blog.] - Priming the Search Engines
From WebDeveloper.com. A 5-part article filled with info and tips on building your site for optimization from the ground up, site promotion, site submission to search engines, what NOT to do (such as what's considered 'spamming the search engines,'), and a thorough resource of links. [by Scott Clark and David Fiedler for WebDeveloper.com] - SEO and Successful Site Architecture
Explains the critical importance of site architecture to successful SEO, SERPs. Topics: how directories are set up on servers, site navigation schemes, subdirectories, file names, and URL structure, types of Web pages (such as home, categories, products, forms, news, services, advertising, search results, shopping cart, credibility), page layout and structure, cross-linking. [Article/tutorial dated 11/22/2004, by Shari Thurow, for ClickZ.] - Six Newbie SEO Questions
Short article/tutorial by SEO expert Jill Whalen that covers the basics of SEO quite well: what is .htaccess, what is KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index), what are supplemental results, what is a link farm, when does PageRank update, what is a 3-way link. Great for newbies to SEO and as a refresher and update for the rest of us. [Article/tutorial dated 04/10/2007, by Jill Whalen, High Rankings, for ISEdb.com.] - Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone
“Let's skip the theory and get to what I know works from time proven methods on Google. I know the following system works 100% of the time with Google to attain rankings across a wide range of keywords. This is what I do with clients to build a successful site and has worked every time. The level of success will depend largely on the subject matter, its potential audience, and its level of competition on the net. The following will build a successful site in 1 years' time via Google alone. It can be done faster if you are a real go getter, or everyone's favorite, a self starter.” [Article/tutorial dated 02/02/2002, by Brett Tabke, for WebmasterWorld.] - Ten Steps to a Well-Optimized Site
Series of 10 articles to help improve your site's search engine optimization, whether you need to fine tune or make sure you've covered everything for your site. “We know that there's always something that could be tweaked for increased Web site traffic, better customer satisfaction, and a higher search engine ranking. How exactly do you go about doing that? Follow these Ten Steps to a Well-Optimized Site and I think you'll see that these goals are not as lofty as you might think.” [Article/tutorial by Wendy Boswell, About.com's Guide to Web Search.] - Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines
Fabulous, concise tips and explanations of ten important things to do and to keep in mind for helping your site achieve high search engine rankings. Covers getting a new domain name, writing for your target audience, researching keyword phrases, your site's navigation and organization, a crawler-friendly design, optimized content, “link-worthy” content, and more. Excellent. [Article/tutorial dated 10/2005, by Jill Whalen, High Rankings.] - The Ultimate SEO Checklist
A helpful checklist for your site's SEO. Optimizing your web site for search engines should be an integral part of your web site project, from the very beginning to the very end. Search engine optimization (SEO) should be considered, and if possible, implemented, throughout the planning, design, development, and maintenance stages of your web site. This checklist is available as an article online, downloadable in PDF format, and is a chapter excerpt from the new book packed with helpful checklists, Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists, by Shirley Kaiser. [Article/tutorial dated 07/26/2006, by Shirley Kaiser, for SitePoint.]
Behind the Scenes SEO Development - CSS, HTML, META Elements, Navigation, Robots.txt for SEO
CSS, HTML, Markup Behind the Scenes for SEO
- A Day in the Life of a Search Engine Friendly Web Page
Excellent, easy-to-follow article/tutorial that highlights very important aspects of page content structure and its appropriate HTML markup for search engine optimization. Topics: domain names,titleandmetatags, code bloat and the use of CSS, JavaScript, headings,headingelement tags, navigation and links, page content and indexable text, and more. Great article (despite all the spelling errors as of 7-11-2007, which they'll hopefully correct!). [Article/tutorial dated 07/02/2007, by Stoney deGeyter, for Search Engine Guide.] - Google Webmaster Guidelines : Design and Content Guidelines
Don't let that link title fool you. This section at Google covers important markup behind the scenes, how to structure your pages, the importance of internal links, and much more. Although written by Google, these are helpful tips in general, too. [Part of Google Webmaster Help Center.] - DMOZ Description
Q&A about the DMOZ descriptions appearing in Google SERPs. Explainsnoodpandnoydirwithin themeta robotselement tag and how to use them properly - such as<meta name="robots" content="noodp">to tell Google not to use the DMOZ description for that page and<meta name="robots" content="noydir">to tell Yahoo not to use the DMOZ description for that page. You can also combine them into one meta element tag:<meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir">. It's important to note that you should also create a goodmeta descriptionfor each page prior to adding the abovemeta robotstags so that Google and Yahoo! will then use yourmeta descriptiontags text. Editor note 23 November, 2007: Keep in mind also that these days Google and most other search engines do not use yourmeta descriptiontext for rankings, but searchers will see your text and it could be a determining factor in their choosing whether or not to visit your site. [Article/tutorial dated 11/14/2007, by Jill Whalen, for High Rankings® Advisor.] - How Important is ALT Text In Search Engine Optimization?
Helpful article with great insight about using the imageALTattribute for images effectively. As of this article date, due to all the abuse of people stuffing keywords into the imageALTattribute, the major search engines don't give much weight, if any, to this text. However, it's nonetheless still important to include it, especially for its original purpose - “to describe the image for the benefit of those who surf the Web with images turned off and for those who have the contents of Web pages read out loud to them.” Well done article. [Article/tutorial dated 08/30/2005 by Robin Nobles for Search Engine Guide.] - Notes on helping search engines index your Web site
W3C information about helpful elements to include in your site development and how to implement them, such as the page language using the<LINK>element, keywords and descriptions using the<META>element, and more. [Notes via W3C - HTML 4.01 notes] - Optimizing Your Chances with Accessibility
Helpful article about how to effectively increase search engine ranking with W3C Accessibility guidelines and Section 508. [Article/tutorial dated 03/10/2004 by Brandon Olejniczak for Digital Web Magazine.] - Scalable On-Page SEO Strategies
Exceptional article / tutorial about optimizing websites. Geared for large-scale SEO strategies and management, but great reading for anyone, regardless of the size of your site. Covers title element tags, SEO best practices, working with page templates, URL considerations, effective tactics for adding pages and content, syndicating content, internal linking structure, and much more. The emphasis is working smarter, not harder. Excellent article. [Article/tutorial dated 07/26/2007, by Stephan Spencer, for Search Engine Land.] - The Ultimate SEO Checklist, Page 1 The section of this SEO checklist that covers: successful SEO in a nutshell, working with keywords and keyphrases, using keywords and keyphrases in your markup, where and how to optimize your keywords and keyphrases within each page at your site, and more. This checklist is available as an article online, downloadable in PDF format, and is a chapter excerpt devoted to SEO from the new book packed with helpful checklists, Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists, by Shirley Kaiser. [Article/tutorial dated 07/26/2006, by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns, for SitePoint.]
- Three Often Overlooked Steps to Improving Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Discusses the importance of structural markup / HTML, the use of CSS, standards-compliant markup / HTML as well as the benefits. Also outlines where to place keywords, keyword phrases. [Article/tutorial by Collaborint.]
Web Robots and Robots Exclusion for SEO
The robots.txt file and the robots META element tag can be helpful for telling good robots what to index, what not to index, whether or not to cache your pages, how frequently to index your site, and more. Bad bots typically disregard or don't even look at your robots.txt file or robots META element tags, so don't rely on these for that - but using them is indeed helpful for the good robots and spiders, such as Google, etc.
- Building a Better Spider Trap
by SpiderHunter.com. Good tutorial with lots of information about identifying spiders, ways of excluding spiders such as via robots.txt, and much more. [Article/tutorial by Spider Hunter.] - HTML Author's Guide to the Robots
METAtag
by Martijn Koster. Concise info about implementation from what's considered the definitive source for Web robots information. [Article/tutorial by Martijn Koster, The Web Robots Pages.] - How to keep bad robots, spiders and web crawlers away
by Fleiner.com. Learn how to identify, trap, and ban bad robots from your site. [Article/tutorial Fleiner.com.] - Robots Exclusion
by Martijn Koster. The Robots Exclusion Protocol, The RobotsMETAelement tag. [Article/tutorial by Martijn Koster, The Web Robots Pages.] - Search Engine Spider IP Addresses
by Search Engine World. Listing of known search engine spider/crawler IP addresses and hosts. [Part of the Search Engine World Web site.] - The Web Robots FAQ...
by Martijn Koster. Thorough FAQ explaining search robots, how they function, how to work with them, how to steer them away from your pages if desired, more. [Article/tutorial by Martijn Koster, The Web Robots Pages.] - Who's Knocking on the Door? or, what you should know about the Robots.txt file and the Robot's Meta Tag
Rhoda Schueller's very good explanation with examples. [Article/tutorial by Rhoda Schueller.]
Google and Robots.txt for SEO
- Analyzing your robots.txt file
When you have a Google Sitemaps account, Google Sitemaps will provide you with helpful information about your robots.txt file so you can fix it, fine tune it, and more. [Part of the Google Information for Webmasters section via Google.] - Google Launches Robots.txt File Checker; Now We Need Robots.txt Standardization
To check on how your robots.txt file is processed, Google now provides a tool via their Google Sitemaps program. Danny Sullivan explains how it works in this article. Note that this article is within the members only area. [Article/tutorial dated 02/07/2006, by Danny Sullivan, for Search Engine Watch.] - Googlebot: Google's Web Crawler
Information about Google's Web crawler, robots.txt information, more. [Part of the Google Information for Webmasters section via Google.] - How to Remove Content from Google's Index
Helpful instructions here, including how to add information to the robots.txt file for Google and robotsMETAelement tag information for Google. [Part of the Google Information for Webmasters section via Google.] - Inside Google Sitemaps: More stats and analysis of robots.txt files
This article explains the new robots.txt analysis tool within Google Sitemaps. You'll find a variety of information now - the new robots.txt tab “provides Googlebot's view of that file, including when Googlebot last accessed it, the status it returns, and if it blocks access to your home page. This tab also lists any syntax errors in the file. You can enter a list of URLs to see if the robots.txt file allows or blocks them.” There's also more information available. This article provides screenshot examples, too. [Article/tutorial dated 02/06/2006, by Vanessa Fox, Google Engineering, for Inside Google Sitemaps weblog/blog.]
See also SEO, SEM Tools
Meta Element Editors, Automated Tools.
Yahoo! Slurp and Robots.txt for SEO
- Yahoo! Slurp - Yahoo!'s Web Crawler
Information about Yahoo! Slurp and instructions for how to use the robots.txt file to tell Slurp what to index, what to exclude, how frequently to crawl (usingCrawl-delay), and more. [Part of the Yahoo! Search Help section via Yahoo!]
SEO for Specific Search Engines
Optimizing Web Sites for Google
- Google Tips for a Higher Ranking Site
Helpful tips to keep in mind with improving your rankings with Google — content, keywords, link popularity, more. [By Ian Lee, Internet Marketing Strategist - ADS-Links.com.] - Google Webmaster Guidelines : Design and Content Guidelines
Don't let that link title fool you. This section at Google covers important markup behind the scenes, how to structure your pages, the importance of internal links, and much more. Although written by Google, these are helpful tips in general, too. [Part of Google Webmaster Help Center.] - Improve Snippets with a META Description Makeover
“The quality of your snippet — the short text preview we display for each web result — can have a direct impact on the chances of your site being clicked (i.e. the amount of traffic Google sends your way). We use a number of strategies for selecting snippets, and you can control one of them by writing an informative meta description for each URL... And it's worth noting that while accurate meta descriptions can improve clickthrough, they won't affect your ranking within search results.” Read all the details and tips via this article at Google Webmaster Central Blog. [Article/tutorial dated 09/27/2007, by Raj Krishnan, Snippets Team, for Google Webmaster Central Blog.]
Optimizing Web Sites for MSN
- How to Optimize for MSN
Excellent article on details of optimizing for MSN. Explains similarities with Yahoo! at this point in time and covers unique optimization for MSN, including fresh content, themed structure, navigation, sitemaps, link building, and more. [Article/tutorial dated 09/28/2007, by Ross Dunn, StepForth SEO News Blog.] - MSN for Webmasters
Information directly from MSN and includes a fair amount of information for optimizing your site for MSN. Technical recommendations for your website - HTML, page redirects for moved pages, using robots.txt or meta tags to direct the MSNBot crawler, using appropriate URLs (simple and static). Content guidelines - keyphrases within content, using one topic per page and keeping to under 150K (excluding images), accessing pages via links, image text, site maps, hierarchy as flat as possible (each page should be only 1-3 links from homepage). [Part of MSN Search Help.]
Optimizing Web Sites for Yahoo!
- How to Optimize for Yahoo!
Excellent article on details of optimizing for Yahoo! Covers the basics and more - meta tags, title element tags, optimizing keyword placement, incoming links, Yahoo's Site Explorer, Yahoo's Search Submit, and more. Lots of helpful insight and information here. [Article/tutorial dated 09/15/2007, by Ross Dunn, StepForth SEO News Blog.] - Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines
Direct from the source, Yahoo! provides guidelines on how to optimize your site for their search engine crawler. Tells what type of content Yahoo! is interested in indexing, such as:- Original and unique content of genuine value
- Pages designed primarily for humans, with search engine considerations secondary
- Links intended to help people find interesting, related content, when applicable
- Metadata (including title and description) that accurately describes the contents of a web page
- Good web design in general
- Yahoo! Search Webmaster Resources
“Useful links on Yahoo! for site owners and webmasters looking for information on content guidelines, search community, webmaster support and feedback, site promotion, and search marketing” [Part of Yahoo! Search Help FAQs.]
Optimizing Domain Names and URLs for SEO, SEM
- 11 Best Practices for URLs
Fabulous listing with explanations and examples of URL approaches that are best for visitors and for SEO. [Article/tutorial dated 09/27/2006, by Rand Fishkin, SEOMoz.] - Domain Canonicalization
Great tutorial on how to optimize URLs for search engines - www, default file names, internal linking, Google Webmaster Tools, additional resources. [Article/tutorial dated 05/02/2008, by Nathan Buggia, for jane and robot.] - How To Redirect Multiple Parked Domains
An easy-to-understand way to set up your redirects so that you won't inadvertently confuse or trick the search engines or have them think by mistake that you're playing tricks and end up getting banned. Uses .htaccess. [Article/tutorial part of High Rankings® Advisor dated 06/25/2003, by Jill Whalen, for High Rankings.] - Hyphens & Underscores Are Now Treated Equally in Google.com
The word from Matt Cutts regarding Google via the 2007 WordCamp conference is Google now considers dashes (i.e. hyphens) to be equal to underscores where both are now treated as word separators. [Article/tutorial dated 07/24/2007, by rustybrick, for Search Engine Roundtable.] - Search Engine Marketing FAQ: Will changing our URL or domain name affect our search engine rankings? How can we change urls without losing the traffic we're already getting?
Covers Google guidelines, redirecting URLs with Apache Redirect, Microsoft IIS, workarounds, common mistakes, more. [FAQ via SEO Logic®. hat tip: Wise-women discussion list] - Search Engine Ranking Factors: URL, Technical, Hosting & Server Side Factors
Section on what to look out for with URLs, such as IP-based content delivery; dynamic URLs, such as session ID variables and complex dynamic URL variables; canonical issues; and more. Good insight here from 13 top SEO experts. [Article/chart by Rand Fishkin, SEOMoz.] - SEO Advice: URL Canonicalization
Great insight in Matt Cutts' blog post about optimizing URLs for search engines - “canonicalization, www vs. non-www, redirects, duplicate urls, 302 'hijacking,' etc.” [Article/tutorial dated 01/04/2006, by Matt Cutts, for Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO.]
Optimizing Moving Web Pages, Moving Entire Web Sites, and Moving Web Hosts for Search Engines
Whether you move one page or an entire site, doing so with both visitors and search engines in mind can make all the difference with your visitors and search engines reaching your new page or your entire site. You also need to use a redirect approach that doesn't get your site banned from the search engines by mistake - see the 'Meta Refresh vs 301 Redirects' listing and link below. See also the Server-Side SEO section on this page.
- Guide to Applying 301 Redirects with Apache
Helpful article that explains how to avoid 301 redirect problems, how to use Apache'smod_rewriteand the.htaccessfile to create custom rules for moving URLs. Uses SEOmoz's server and domain name move as an example and case study. [Article/tutorial dated 06/14/2005, by Matt Inman, for SEOmoz.] - How to: Move a Website...Should You Fear 301 Redirects Hurting Your Rankings?
Fabulous article by Aaron Wall about moving one of their sites. Topics include: 301 Redirecting a Small Site Versus a Large Site, search traffic, traffic, How Google Reacted to the Redirects, Helping Deeper Content Get Re-indexed Quickly, How Did the Engines Do?, What Should I Do Before & While Moving My Site? [Article/tutorial dated 07/11/2007, by Aaron Wall, Aaron Wall's SEO Book[*note].] - Meta Refresh vs 301 Redirects
Explains why you should avoid using theMeta Refreshtag. The article also shows how to properly redirect old pages at your site to their new pages using a 301 redirect rule within your server's .htaccess file. [Article/tutorial dated 04/21/2004, by Aaron Wall, Aaron Wall's SEO Book[*note].] - Moving to a New Web Host
Goes through the details of each step to ensuring that your move goes smoothly and that the search engines don't drop your site for not being reachable. The steps:- Step 1. Find a good web host and sign up for an account.
- Step 2: Make a back-up of your site at the new webhost.
- Step 3: Change DNS to point to your new web host.
- Step 4: Wait for the DNS change to propagate through the net.
- Step 5: Once you are sure people or Googlebots are fetching from the new webhost/IP address, you're done. You can shut down the old site.
- SEO: Redirection
An entire category of articles and weblog posts devoted to redirecting pages and SEO, including hijacking exploits, how to create SEO-friendly redirects for redirecting old pages and sites to new ones, how to avoid being penalized or banned by using SEO-friendly redirects, and much more. [Articles/tutorials via Search Engine Watch.]
See also the Domain Names, URLs, and SEO, SEM section on this page for more on redirects regarding moving or changing URLs, etc.
Server-Side SEO
How your server handles requests, as well as redirects, is an often overlooked but critical part of your site's optimization. See also the section on this page, Optimizing Moving Web Pages, Moving Entire Web Sites, Moving Web Hosts for SEO for more on server-side redirects and handling page moves and site moves.
- Behind the Scenes with Apache's .htaccess
Highly popular blog posting about using Apache for URL rewriting, mod_rewrite, blocking hotlinkers and bandwidth theft, blocking bad bots and user agents, using Apache to shorten URLs, the use of regular expressions with Apache servers, Robots.txt, HTTP error codes, and server vulnerabilities. Fairly comprehensive annotated listings with tips all along the way. Helpful resource. [Article/tutorial dated 10/09/2005, by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns, for Brainstorms and Raves.] - Hosting Issues as They Relate to SEO
Covers basic server response codes, along with common pitfalls to avoid - all of which can impact your visitors and search engines positively or negatively. Another must read article on these important basics. [Article/tutorial dated 07/10/2007, by Mark Jackson, for Search Engine Watch.]
Creating, Optimizing Sitemaps for Search Engines
Creating, Optimizing Sitemaps for Google Sitemaps
- Google Sitemaps Help: Other Supported Formats
In addition to the XML-based sitemaps, Google also allows other formats, such as plain text (.txt), Syndication feed (RSS), and OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). You can read more about them on these pages. [Part of the Google Sitemaps section via Google.] - How do I create a Sitemap file?
Google's FAQ on the formats they accept for sitemaps and links to more information on how to create each type, along with their recommendations. [Part of the Google Sitemaps section via Google.] - Implementing Google's New Sitemap Protocol
Information about Google's sitemap protocol, a helpful collection of links, and even a PHP script to help create your own. [Article/tutorial dated 06/05/2005, by James Archer, for The Return of Design.] - Google Sitemaps Help: Using the Sitemap Protocol
Google offers a way to provide an XML-based sitemap optimized for Google's crawlers. You can learn more about it here. [Part of the Google Sitemaps section via Google.]
Related within Web Site Resources:
- SEO, SEM Tools Sitemapping Tools for Search Engines
- SEO, SEM Articles, Tutorials Optimizing Sitemaps for Search Engines
- Information Architecture Tools Software for Information Architecture, Sitemapping
- Information Architecture Articles, TutorialsInformation Architecture Articles, TutorialsArticles, Tutorials on Web Site Mapping, Sitemapping
SEO sections moved from this page to:
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Older SEO, SEM Articles, Tutorials
While these articles or tutorials have older dates, most or all of the information remains helpful and relevant, so those are still listed but in a separate section here.
- An Ingenious Way to Use Wordtracker
An insightful tutorial about how to use Wordtracker effectively to figure out and work with highly targeted keyword phrases for the content within your Web site. Helpful article. [Article dated 05/21/2002 by Robin Nobles, Searchengineguide.com.] - Building Dynamic Pages with Search Engines in Mind
by Tim Perdue, PHP Builder. Working with Apache, Tim's tutorial shows you how to code your dynamic pages to not include the & and ? in the URLs (those can stop a search engine dead in its tracks, not indexing your pages properly). Tim's method, which also includes SSI, has proven to work just fine with a site of over 200,000 pages and growing. [Article/tutorial dated 01/17/1999 by Tim Perdue, PHP Builder.] - Designing For Search Engines and Stars
by Shirley E. Kaiser, M.A., SKDesigns (WebsiteTips.com's Editor) for DigitalWeb Magazine. Thorough tutorial that covers a lot of ground, and has received many kudos from top industry experts. Written for site owners, designers, students and instructors. Stated as a "must read" by many industry experts. Editor note February 2006: Although written in 2001 and some online examples are gone or changed, the information relayed is still relevant. [Article dated 04/2001 by Shirley Kaiser, for Digital Web Magazine.] - Registering Dynamic Sites
by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ. Helpful information and tips about search engine optimization for dynamically generated pages. See the follow-up article to this, too - Solutions for Dynamic Page Registration - described below. [Article dated 09/20/2001 by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ.] - Search Engine Friendly URLs with PHP and Apache
by Garrett Coakley for evolt.org. Helpful, good tutorial. [Article/tutorial dated 08/21/2001, by Garrett Coakley for evolt.org.] - Search Engine Optimisation
By Tom Farrell, Frontend Usability InfoCentre. Good article about what's important with optimizing your site — attracting visitors and links from other sites and a site's popularity, in addition to meta tags and other optimizing techniques. Concise, well written article. [10/08/2001, by Tom Farrell, frontend.com.] - Search Engine Tips
Good article for newbies or advanced Internet users from Submit It! Great explanations. [by Submit It!] - SEO and the Web Site Design Process
by Paul Breummer, ClickZ. Good overview article about the top items to consider with SEO and web design. [12/19/2001 Paul Breummer, ClickZ. Thanks to womendesigners discussion list.] - Solutions for Dynamic Page Registration
by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ. Follow-up article to Registering Dynamic Sites noted above. Excellent info here, too. [Article/tutorial dated 09/20/2000 by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ.] - Search Engine Comparison Chart
by Submit Corner. Scan this chart quickly to see which search engines support meta tags, which use link popularity, how much time submissions takes, and more. [by Submit Corner] - The Four Search Engines to be Listed in and Why
by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ. Very insightful article about which search engines can be most helpful for generating traffic to your Web site. Good info here. [11/08/2000, by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ.]
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