Want a couple search engine traffic tips?

Keyword Density [How many times are the words in your <title>, <description> and <keywords> tag repeated in your page text?] - A good thing.

1- Make sure the very top of your viewable page is keyword rich text.  But not just keywords.  Clear, crisp, actual sentences.  (The first line should include your most important keywords with the <h1> heading!)  Robots will penalize you for meaningless keyword repetition.  They call it spamming.  Don't cheat but do it right.  If the first thing on your page (upper left corner) is a graphic, make sure you use Alt Text.  READ ON!

2- Do all of your graphics use alt tags?  They should.  The big problem with graphics (other than the long download) is that search engine robots don't see them.  Use alt tags.  Alt Tags allow you to "name" the graphic.  This is the text that is displayed (pop up style) in IE and NN when you "mouse-over" the graphic.  Many robots do see alt tags.  Remember, add some keywords.  The alt text doesn't have to describe exactly what is on the graphic but can be a few well chosen keywords.

3 -Don't be afraid of some text.  Some people always say our pages are too wordy.  Then, they turn around and wonder why we have a higher search engine listing than themselves.  Tee hee hee.  Figure it out folks.  The search Engines and Search Indexes use keyword density.  A LOT!  Include a few superfluous paragraphs at the bottom of your page.  Include every keyword that you can.  But make it a real paragraph.  Verbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, spaces...  Get the picture?  Real sentences!  The search engines and search indexes hate cheaters and will penalize you for a list of keywords (as spamming.)  They will see real paragraphs and list you higher.  (Try adding high relativity hyperlinks to your superfluous [but REAL] paragraphs.) ...

4 -Use a lot of hyperlinks.  Try this.  Make a list of keywords and find a relative site to link each keyword to.  People will not hate you for sending them traffic.  If you need a high relevance hyperlink to a website promotion term, link to us (http://www.OptiMet.net.)  We'll get listed higher and you will, also.  We get a higher ranking because another site in our theme out there links to us.  (Link popularity)  You'll get a higher ranking for having a highly pertinent hyperlink on your page.  If your site shows credibility, the se's (search engines) will reward you.  A list of keyword type words doesn't appear to be considered spamming if it is a hyperlink (I always use bulleted lists to show the robot that it is a list and not spam).  This is a great way to boost your site's merits, thus raising your ranking and, thus, increasing search engine traffic.  Ask each site that you linked to link you back.  This gives you more:

5 -Link Popularity.  If your link shows up in a lot of other sites (especially if it is about the same theme), you are rewarded.  Do you have more than one site?  Make sure that somewhere in every site they are all linked (preferably on a page that is or, is accessible from, your index page.)  It will help.  Hey...  We'll link ya!

6 -Use your "right click."  By right clicking any web page, you can call up the source code.  This allows you to view the actual html of any web page.  Go to any part of a web page and "right click" with your mouse.  Select "View Source."  When I do it, my notepad program opens with the full page displayed in html.  See what other webmasters are doing,  Try It Now.  Put your cursor here ~><~ and right click.  You'll then need to click "View Source."  Of course, the first things you'll see are our  meta tags.  We will not have deviated very much from what is written here.  Look at others sites.  Why are they getting hits while you are not?  Hmmm...  It gives us all something to think about.  You may not right click on a graphic to choose "view source."

7 -Visit and use these following sites:

-Invaluable.    We are contributing members.  If you're serious, you will be, too.

Scrub The Web -Find out if your page is search engine friendly!

Search Engine World -the search engine promotion and optimization site.

Jim World -Start here if you need more traffic.

The Write Market -Free search engine promotion tutorial.

Here is a list of all the big American Search Indexes and Search Engines.  Submit, but not too much!  Find out a lot more at Self Promotion!

Webspiders & Robots (Search Engines)
Aeiwi
Alexa
AllTheWeb
AltaVista
AOL Search
Anzwers
DirectHit
Excite
Google
HotBot
Inktomi
Kanoodle
Lycos
MasterSite
National Directory
Northern Light
Overture.com
SearchHippo
SearchIt
Subjex
WebsMostLinked
WebTop
WiseNut
What-U-Seek

Indexes & Catalogs
About.com
Ask.com
Jayde
JoeAnt.com
GoGuides.org
LookSmart
MSN Search Index
Open Directory Project
Rex
TurnPike
Yahoo

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