SEO Best Practices
by Chaunce Dolan on Sunday, January 24th, 2010
When your site is ready
Submit your site to search engines
Google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Sitemap
Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your Web pages.
Examine your site
Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. 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.
Browser compatibility
Test your site to make sure that it appears correctly in different browsers.
Validation
Validate your page/site (Ctrl+Shift+a in Firefox). Validation errors will sometimes stop the spider from crawling your site fully and efficiently.
Webmaster tools
- see which parts of a site Googlebot had problems crawling
- upload an XML Sitemap file
- remove URLs already crawled by Googlebot
- specify the preferred domain
- identify issues with title and description meta tags
- understand the top searches used to reach a site
- get a glimpse at how Googlebot sees pages
- remove unwanted site links that Google may use in results
- receive notification of quality guideline violations and file for a site reconsideration
This article was written on my experiences and research over the years and was written to elaborate on Google’s SEO Best Practices.
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