Any tips for Search Engine Optimization?

Fuma

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Except your usual key words, phrases, etc in <title> and <meta> tags.
What else should I look at?
 
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T3rminator

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On your page, make sure to include the "keywords" and "description" meta tags in the header of your HTML. Though these don't count a lot for search engines, crawlers do look at them.

Taking a look at Bing and Google:

Both bing and google have webmaster tools:
http://www.bing.com/webmaster
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

You can sign up for these and they have good explanations of what data to submit to them to make your site more attractive to the search engine.

Be sure to make a sitemap and submit it to the search engine. It helps it find content.

Google also has another free tool, namely, Google Analytics which provides comprehensive data on the users coming to your site, where they are redirected from and what search queries led them to your site.

Most search engines have a place to submit a site for crawling, go to google, yahoo, bing, etc and submit your site. Submit your site to alexa, and submit it to the open directory (dmoz.org)

Dynamic content, rss feeds, links from other sites, etc. all contribute to a higher pagerank. Change your site's content regularly, post new news, things like that.

Lastly, get some local exposure, sign up at locality, satopsites and such.
 

FarligOpptreden

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SEF URLs also do wonders. Also, make sure the <title> tag of your document is descriptive and relevant to the content.

Oh, also make sure that all your internal links for properly. That's a big one to consider... :p
 
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