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Great Ways To Improve Your Search Engine RankingGreat Ways To Improve Your Search Engine Ranking

  • Providing Proper Meta-Tags
  • Keeping Home Page File Size Low
  • Increasing your Popularity Rating

Providing Proper Meta-Tags
Virtually all search engines use your Meta-Tags in one form or another. Not having these tags in place or using them incorrectly, can have dramatic effects on not being listed by the search engines, even if you paid to be listed. Doesn't sound fair? Consider this...If you paid big bucks to attend a fancy dinner with all kinds of Hollywood stars, and showed up in jeans and a t-shirt, you won't get in. You need to be properly prepared. Even though you might pay for search engine inclusion, if your site isn't prepared, you won't get in. For an in depth explanation, plus a Meta-Tag Analyzer and Meta-Tag builder, see "All About The Proper Use Of META TAGS".

Keeping Home Page File Size Low
The size of your home page consists of the HTML file, all graphics being loaded and all scripts being imported. If this becomes too large, search engines might time out when reading your page and skip you. Even if you have the most perfect Meta-Tags and verbiage throughout the page, none of that will matter if your page is skipped. Keep the total size of your Home page to less than 125,000 bytes. For a more detailed explanation of how to reduce the size of your page, see "Reducing Your Page Size"

Increasing your Popularity Rating
For most search engines, part of your ranking with them is based upon how popular you are. Your popularity is determined by how many sites are linked to you. The more sites that link to your site, the higher your popularity rating. The logic is based upon providing searchers with what they want. If a lot of sites are linked to you, you must be of value. For a more detailed explanation of how to increase your popularity, see "Increasing Your Sites Popularity"


 

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Our Website Design book store provides a wonderful selection of ebooks that will help resolve many questions and problems you may have with your website design.

Web Design: The Complete Reference Second Edition

Web Design: The Complete Reference Second Edition

Create effective Web sites following the latest technologies and techniques. Author, instructor, and Web design guru Thomas Powell has fully revised this second edition of his highly instructive Web design and development techniques. From determining your needs and planning your site, to the nuts-and-bolts of page development with text, graphics, scripts, and multimedia, everything you'll need to know is covered in this comprehensive volume.

 
Web Site Design Goodies

Web Site Design Goodies

"Web Site Design Goodies starts by asking, ""Who is your site for?"" and ""Why should someone come to your site?"" Once readers have answered those questions, the author takes them through essential web site creation issues, including: Deciding on a Server Planning your site ahead of time Text and Navigation Images and visual issues Communicating with visitors The final chapters cover advanced concepts including site promotion and adding the latest web tricks - in ways that make sense. Throughout the book, Joe critiques actual, published web sites, demonstrating the techniques that worked - and the ones that didn't. Many of these sites will be pictured in a special 4-color section of the book. "

 
HTML & Web Design Tips & Techniques: Tips & Techniques

HTML & Web Design Tips & Techniques: Tips & Techniques

Master HTML and Web design using this resource filled with precise, proven techniques and quick, concise solutions from today’s leading industry experts. NOTE: due to the large amount of text and graphics, this eBook file is 13.8 MG. We recommend that you download this eBook using the fastest Internet connection at your disposal, otherwise you may notice a longer downloading time than usual.

 
HTML: A Beginner's Guide Second Edition

HTML: A Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Essential skills for first-time programmers! This easy-to-use book explains the fundamentals of HTML and Web development. The modular approach of this series—including drills, sample projects, and mastery checks—makes it easy to learn to use this powerful programming language at your own pace.

 
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page Fourth Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page Fourth Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page, Fourth Edition, provides you with the tools you need to create and customize your Web pages. A careful, step-by-step approach enables you to build and publish your first Web page. With the basics in place, you are slowly introduced to more advanced concepts such as tables, forms, frames, and style sheets. Many examples illustrate each new concept, and you are encouraged to use and build upon these examples. Many new Web page concepts are covered, including XML, style sheets and JavaScript programs.

 
Effective Executive’s Guide to FrontPage Web Sites: The Eight Steps for Designing Building and Managing FrontPage 2000 Web Sites

Effective Executive’s Guide to FrontPage Web Sites: The Eight Steps for Designing Building and Managing FrontPage 2000 Web Sites

Written specifically for busy executives, managers, and other professionals, Effective Executive’s Guide to FrontPage Web Sites walks you through the eight steps of designing, building, and managing Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web sites.

 

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