The title tag is very vital and this is found at he top the website page. The tag plays an enormous role in indexing the web page. The title tag is known as the most important of the three meta- tags that include description and key word tags. A search engine and prospective visitors will first of all look at the title to determine what a page is all about. The title tag may include a keyword which in most cases the title of the page or the company name. The Meta tags are also very essential and the major Meta tags are the keyword and description.  However it is vital to use the Meta tags properly without padding them. Meta tags are often listed in the search result of a page and if they are stuffed that means the page will not look presentable at all. The keyword should be relevant and the description should be in a sentence format.

By use of relevant content in a page will enable people visiting the site to access the information within a matter of seconds. Having a relevant readable text is very important in that it will make sense to the person reading it. If the content doest make sense at all, it will only mean that prospective visitors will loose interest in the site. It is also very vital to write naturally and engaging the readers by explaining what you are discussing.

Images play a good role in helping a web reader to understand more about what is being discussed.  Use of images also adds relevance to the context in the page and source code that search engines see when indexing a site. Alt attributes therefore helps the visually impaired too to access sites with the aid of a screen reader. Alt attribute hence is a technique that will help readers to understand without any discrimination as it caters for the visually impaired persons.

XML sitemaps is a version that is used to index a site by search engines. such sitemaps help web readers to navigate through a web page on their own, thus it is an essential SEO technique in that it is a link that has vital information as too when the site was last updated and modified, the list of all web pages and moreso the posts about a particular page. It is a link to all the content of an individual’s site.

Link building is another SEO technique that is very useful. As a site owner it is essential to note the number of links that leads to your website. By having many links to your website means that a lot of web readers will get access to your site which is good. But it is essential that an individual does so, taking extra care not to make site and link congested. An easier way of generating links to your website is by writing genuine and relevant content in all pages. If a person links his sites to other sites, those sites will do the same and it becomes a two way journey and at the end, you will be marketing your website. Another technique that search engines employ is the use of social media such as face book, twitter and LinkedIn. The social media help in selling your website to many prospective web visitors.

Once you have identified the key point I mentioned above, the first things you need to do is get your website rank high in the target location search engines.

Here are the tips on how to rank high in local search engines:

• Domain Name – Your domain name must have the local extension of the local country. For example, if you want to target Malaysia customers, you should consider to use *.com.my extension, Australia is *.au, United Kingdom is .*uk.
• Web Hosting – Your website should be hosting in the local country or city, makes your website loads faster for your targeted customer.
• Website Content – You website content must used the language and grammar aspect for targeted country.
• Phone Number – Optionally, you can specify the local (regional specific) phone number in your website.
• Search Engine Optimization – Your website content should be tailored towards the region-country-city. You can do this as on page search engine optimization such as put it in title, keywords, and description meta tags, etc.
• Link building – Get your website listed in local directory, local search engine and link exchange with other website within the target location.
• Search Engine Settings – Use Google webmaster Tools to set your geographic location. You can do it by: Dashboard -> Tools -> Set geographic target. Then, select the country which has your most targeted customer..

Once all key point I mentioned above is done, your website should be fully optimized for local search engines.

1. Missing or duplicate meta data – Having no meta data or having it simply repeat the brand is an obvious SEO problem that is easy to fix most of the time. The same goes for duplicate meta data – sometimes the developers will repeat the same meta tags throughout the whole website, which the search engines may read as duplicate content, resulting in a failure to rank.

2. Text as images – Content is king online, so dont lock up your text in Flash or as images, no matter how cool it might look. If you dont give the search engines content to crawl you will have a hard time ranking no matter what else you do.

3. No internal linking – A solid internal linking strategy helps your users navigate through your site and it ensures that the search engines crawl and rank your website.

4. Missing or irrelevant alt tags – If you have images on your site, it is a simple matter to ensure that keywords are placed in your alt tags, and it will definitely have a positive effect on your rankings. Also, it helps users who cannot view the images for whatever reason (they are visually impaired, they have a slow connection, or they are using a substandard browser like IE6) understand the content on your site.

5. No robots.txt file – This file tells the search engines what pages of your site should be indexed and what should be ignored. Even if there are no pages on your site that you want to leave out of the search results, this file is still essential as it helps the search engine crawlers determine what to do with your sites pages.

Broadcast Yourself. Thats the tag for the Youtube video sharing social network, a video upload site where people can watch, rate and comment on videos uploaded by other users.

Video upload sites have been around for a while now but they are only getting more and more popular these days and have been one of the catalyst of the new web 2.0 movement where users submit the bulk of a sites web content.

These sites are fun and in many ways informative and addictive. Youtube is among the most visited sites on the internet according to Alexa with millions of people visiting the site each day.

There are lots of other sites like Youtube, some of them standalone and some that are on social networks while others are used for a specific purpose.

Video Upload Sites

• FunnyOrDie – Will Ferrel’s new funny video site, lol. Life’s tasty…
• Revver Video Sharing Network – Revver – The first viral video sharing network with original webisodes, animation, comedy, vlogger, gaming videos, and more.
• Youtube – Most popular video upload site.
• Metacafe – Videos and Funny Movies
• Google Video – Google’s video sharing network
• Yahoo! Video – Yahoo’s video sharing portal
• IFILM – Videos, Trailers, etc
• Yommy – Video Shopping/Advertising
• Bolt.com – Upload and Share Your Life
• Break Video – Free videos, humor, comedy, hot chicks & pictures for guys.
• Grouper Video
• Daily Motion – Share your videos
• Veoh Video Network – Online Videos
• Singing Fool – Music Videos
• Video Detective – Movie Preview and Trailers
• Sharkle – Upload and Share
• Putfile
• JobBeam – Video Resume – Upload Your Resume.
• Ziddio
• Brightcove
• LiveVideo.com – The World is Watching – LiveVideo is a video platform that allows you to host videos for free, broadcast your videos, watch funny and sexy videos.

How Video Upload Sites Work.

Video upload sites usually require you to have an account in order to have the full benefits of being a member. Without an account you are restricted to just watching and enjoying the videos although you can still share them.

After you create an account you can then upload your video, which will be hosted on the video upload site, using a special form. Once the video is uploaded it will be given a special url which gives the video a special location on the network.

The user will then tag each video with special keywords which will be used for finding your video and for placing it as a related video to similar ones on the video upload site. This makes finding your video an easy task for other users since it will appear alongside other popular videos with the same tag.

Users can then comment on your video if they like it (or if they don’t) and also rate it (5 stars would be great). The can also grab the url and place it on their own website or page or if its the case of a social network like Myspace, add it to their page. Most video upload sites are also social networks.

Sites like Hubpages.com also integrate videos from these video upload sites so its easy to share your videos across the internet.

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To rank top in search engine result, there are many things that you can do. One of them is get one way link as many as possible. One way link is a simply a link from other website to your website with keywords anchor text and you don’t have to put their link at your website. This is a nice benefit because it keeps visitor coming to your site through the other website (the website your link is at) and this means you can increased the traffic of your website with minimal efforts.

Why Does One Way Link is Better?
Search engine such as Google mark one way link as a ‘vote’ from other website to your website. It is because if your link is at the other website, that website is certifying the quality of your website and makes your website ranking higher.

How Can I Get One Way Link?
Getting the one way link is the hard part because not many webmaster want to put your link at your website if you just ask. The most important things you can do is produce high quality contents at your website and if the content is related to their website then most likely they can link to your website.

The other thing you can do to get one way link is to do a 3-way link exchange. Most webmaster has more than one website, you can ask them to put your link at their website in exchange you will link to their other website from your website. It’s a win win situation because you have one way link at their website and you give them one way link to their other website.

What is 301 redirect?

301 redirect is the best method to preserve your current search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a web
site. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”. After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is
noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new location or file name. You implement the 301 redirect by creating a .htaccess file.

What is a .htaccess file?

When a visitor/spider requests a web page, your web server checks for a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file contains specific instructions for certain requests, including security, redirection issues and how to handle certain errors.

How to implement the 301 Redirect

1. To create a .htaccess file, open notepad, name and save the file as .htaccess (there is no extension).

2. If you already have a .htaccess file on your server, download it to your desktop for editing.

3. Place this code in your .htaccess file:
redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm

4. If the .htaccess file already has lines of code in it, skip a line, then add the above code.

5. Save the .htaccess file

6. Upload this file to the root folder of your server.

7. Test it by typing in the old address to the page you’ve changed. You should be immediately taken to the new location.

Notes: Don’t add “http://www” to the first part of the statement – place the path from the top level of your site to the page. Also ensure that you leave a single space between these elements:

redirect 301 (the instruction that the page has moved)

/old/old.htm (the original folder path and file name)

http://www.you.com/new.htm (new path and file name)

When the search engines spider your site again they will follow the rule you have created in your .htaccess file. The search engine spider doesn’t actually read the .htaccess file, but recognizes the response from the server as valid.

During the next update, the old file name and path will be dropped and replaced with the new one. Sometimes you may see alternating old/new file names during the transition period, plus some fluctuations in rankings. According to Google it will take 6-8 weeks to see the changes reflected on your pages.

Other ways to implement the 301 redirect:

1. To redirect ALL files on your domain use this in your .htaccess file if you are on a unix web server:
redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com
redirectMatch permanent ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com

You can also use one of these in your .htaccess file:

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
redirect permanent /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html
redirectpermanent /index.html http://www.domain.com/index.html

This will redirect “index.html” to another domain using a 301-Moved permanently redirect.

2. If you need to redirect http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com and you’ve got mod_rewrite enabled on your server you can put this in your .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

or this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Tip: Use your full URL (ie http://www.domain.com) when obtaining incoming links to your site. Also use your full URL for the internal linking of your site.

3. If you want to redirect your .htm pages to .php pages andd you’ve got mod_rewrite enabled on your server you can put this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*).htm$ /$1.php

4. If you wish to redirect your .html or .htm pages to .shtml pages because you are using Server Side Includes (SSI) add this code to your .htaccess file:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html

Frequently Asked Question:
What’s the difference in using a 301 redirect versus a meta redirect?

Meta Redirect
To send someone to a new page (or site) put this in the head of your document:

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”10; url=http://mynewsite.com/”>

Content=”10; tells the browser to wait 10 seconds before transfer, choose however long you would like, you can even choose 0 to give a smoother transition, but some (really old) browsers aren’t capable of using this so I’d suggest putting a link on that page to your new site for them.

With a meta redirect the page with the redirect issues a 200 OK status and some other mechanism moves the browser over to the new URL. With a 200 OK on both pages, the search engine wants to index both the start page and the target page – and that is a known spam method (set up 10,000 domains full of keywords for the search engines to index then meta redirect the “real visitor” after 0 or 1
seconds to the “real site” ) so using it gets you penalized.

The 301 redirect simply issues a Permanently Moved message in the HTTP header which tells the search engine to only
index the target URL.

Conclusion: The safest way to redirect old web pages to the new pages or old web site to the new web site and keep the same search engine rankings is to use the 301 redirect. It will also pass on the page rank from your old site to your new site.