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SEO hints and tips www.stonetemple.com


Search Engine Forums www.searchengineland.com


and www.searchenginewatch.com


Articles www.searchengineguide.com


Many articles, what is happening on the Web at www.searchenginejournal.com



Google's Guidelines for Webmasters www.google.com/support/webmasters


Yahoo's Policies http://help.yahoo.com


and from MSN http://webmaster.live.com


Now a days wherever you look every businesses seems to have a website, whether it is just a single page site or one that has many pages. Having a website is a natural thing to have, as no other media can reach so many people twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. The Internet is the channel and the Web allows businesses to be found.

Being online is a daily activity and anyone in business must go where the customers look and search. That is why a website must be built so it meets the needs and requirements of the searching public.

But before the site can be found by the potential customer it has to be found and indexed by the Search Engines, so it pays to follow the guidelines and policies as published by Google, Yahoo and MSN above.

These days you do not usually have to submit to the major Search Engines, they find the websites, but what do they find, are they able to get an understanding of what the website is about, are the signposts placed in the code behind the page that is visible.

True, a searcher may find your site, for the search engines have some very sophisticated processes but why not be found by the information you wish to advise, the information a searcher is looking for. Get ahead of the competition, build your site to include the recommended Tags. You will have a better chance of being found by the searching customer which will give you the business edge in The Age We are Moving To

To Check

To view the tags behind a website or web page in Internet Explorer, log on, load the website into the browser, click on "View" in the top toolbar and from the drop down box select "Source".

More about the Title and Description Tags can be found on website search friendly or view the many tips, how to articles and discussions on SEO and SEM in links above

Words Maketh the Site SEO is All in the Writing


Videos

A Search Engine Friendly Website Attracts Customers. What do the Search Engines Require


The Website Title Tag (s) Are Important


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