SEO - Miscellaneous Techniques

Dos and Don’t

The following tips have been put together under this miscellaneous category to highlight the Dos and Don’t.

To-Don't List

• Don't keep the hidden text on your webpages.
• Don't put wrong words thereby creating alternate image spamming.
• Don't use meta tags stuffing.
• Don't use frames and flash on your site.
• Don't exchange your links with blacklisted sites.
• Don't try to misspell keywords with the intention to fool a visitor
• Don't send spam emails to thousands of email IDs.
• Don't use too many graphics on your site.
• Don't create too many doorway pages.
• Don't try to create duplicate content of pages.
• Don't enter your website many times in a single search engine.
• Don't use sub-directory depth more than 1-2.
• Don't create too many dynamic pages. Try to convert them into static pages.
• Don't bloat your pages with code.
• Don't nest your pages.

To-Do List

• These are tips that can help you optimize your site for search engines.
• Each webpage log should only contain a minimum of about 200 visible words of text to maximize relevance with Google.
• Endeavor to create a Help, FAQ, sitemap, About Us, Link to Us, Copyright, Disclaimer, Privacy Policy pages on a mandatory basis.
• Create a homepage link to every webpage and provide easy navigation through all the pages.
• Pay attention to your dynamic page URLs. Endeavor not to have more than 2 parameters in the URL, because Google can crawl and index dynamic pages when they don’t exceed Google 2 parameters.
• Check that there are no broken links in your webpages, this can reduce your other pages rank.