Search Engine Optimization
Though you can never garuntee a top 10 result in search engines as there's always a "another site" . SEO differs in different search engines .
Google:
- Mainly depends on Google PageRank of the site . It is achieved by more links from high PR sites. You can directories to get listed, especially DMOZ. (
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- Keywords, you should place the words you should recieve hits, in metatags and contents. (though with jagger update it's hard to say it`ll work).
- Sitemap, Using sitemap is a great way to get users what they want , If a visitor is lost he can easily find out the way using a sitemap. It`s like the “You Are Here� boards at parks etc. it`s helpful especially if u have flash websites.
MSN:
- World has still not configired how M$ works ,
MSN toh door ki baat hai
Yahoo!:
- You list from any crap place and it lists eveyrthing on your site. and once it's after your site (
peecha nahi chodega)
Precautions
* Never Link to a page which is banned from search engine`s
* Don`t host your pages on a unreliable host. Hence try to get history of a web host before buying space . Check if your host is not banned.
* Never link to a site which host warez, copyrighted materials ,anything that is against the law or which have chance to get banned. Incomming links from them can`t do any harm though.
* Check for errors in metatags like description
* Have a robots.txt file