SEO Tips for all kind of Sites

SEO Tips for all kind of Sites

1. Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
2. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing your entire site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site. So try to avoid these features.
3. Shorten the title to 60 characters.
4. Add the meta tag for description and keywords.
5. Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
6. Place the robots.txt in your root on your server.
7. Get rid of the js in the code and put it in an external file.
8. Add the author meta tag.
9. Use CSS instead of color, size and font tags.
10. Change the link buttons or js links in to text links.
11. Offer a sitemap to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
12. Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
13. Submit your site to ODP and Yahoo Dir, make sure to select the right category.
14. Submit your site to Search Engines, Directories and business related websites and ensure to pick the exact type.
15. Generate and submit your site to RSS/XML feeds (RSS Submissions, Google Webmasters, Yahoo Site Explore and MSN Webmasters).
16. Do article submissions, press release and blog postings (create new blogs and post business relevant articles with links), Micro Websites, and social bookmarking.
17. Use Anchor Text, image alt tags.
18. Try to get as much as relevant links you can.
19. Read each search engines guide lines and follow them strictly.
20. Main keywords should make bold / italic / underline.
21. If possible, use h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 (h1 is good).
22. Make sure you have any orphan links.
23. Make sure you have 404 pages (broken links).
24. Try to do hand coding without help of Dream weaver.
25. Avoid unnecessary code in your HTML and use CSS.
26. Add Social Bookmarking Buttons into each targeted pages.
27. At the bottom of each page use menus as text links.
28. Make sure our page code is not bigger than 30 K.
29. Pay special attention to your content.
30. Image Optimization.

• Image originality
• Image quality
• Image formatting
• Image naming
• Optimize the page with the image
• File organization
• Include Images With Articles, & Press Releases

31. Don't Spam (Content and Image)
32. Don't use doorway pages
33. Don't cloak
34. Attractive features in Social Media/Networking Websites Audio features (Ex: Scribd.com)

• Nowadays User mind-sets are changing, so most of us like to pay attention what’s the content in the web page and they would like to download as PDF, TXT, Word, JPG, MP3 formats Video Advertising (Ex: Youtube.com)
• Advertising Websites using video ad to include website address such as watermark and/or slides (first or last slides for few seconds) Gadgets (iGoogle)
• Its more suitable for Movies, Travel, Cricket, Foods, News and other entertainment and social sites