SEO Compatible Pages

There is no point in making a website unless there are visitors coming in. A

great source of web site traffic for most sites on the Internet is search

providers like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and AltaVista and so on. Hence, by

designing a SEO compatible web site, you will be able to rank more easily in

the search providers and thereby get more visitors.

Major search providers use programs called crawlers or robots to index web

sites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, read

the content of the page and record it in their own databases, pulling up the

listing as people search for it.

If you want to make your site indexed more easily, you should try to minimise

the use of frames on your web site. Never use frames on the home page of your

web site as this will only confuse the search provider’s robots and they

might even abandon your site because of that. A good way to assist search

providers when using frames is to provide a sitemap which includes the frame

content pages.

Do not present important information in Flash movies or in images. Search

providers robots can only read text in your source code so if you present

important words in Flash movies and images rather than textual format, your

search engine ranking will be greatly affected.

Create meta tags for each and every page of your site so that search

providers robots know at first exactly what that particular page is about and

whether or not to index it. By using Meta tags, you are making the search

provider’s robot's job easier so they will crawl and index your web site more

frequently.

Stop using HTML tags like to style your page. Use CSS (Cascading Style

Sheets) instead because they are more effective and efficient. By using CSS,

you can eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages much lighter and

faster to load.