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Make Readers and Search Engines Find Your Site and Stay

Learn the tips and rules that search engines use and use them on your Web site. Also create a site that readers will like enough to go to and keep going to.
Tagging Blog Posts and Photos
Tagging is, simply put, keywords that help the search function of the site find your blog posts or photos. When you add tags to something you try to find words or phrases that describe that thing or that people would use while searching for that thing.
15 Search Engine Ready Tips
Web site optimization is important if you want to submit your Web site to search engines. Find out what to do and not to do with your Web site to make sure that the search engines will accept your submission.
Boosting Your Hits - Web Page Marketing
7 great tips to help you get more visitors to your Web site. Work your site and submitting to search engines is just the beginning.
Encourage Blog Interaction, Top 7 Ways
"One of the key elements in weblogs is the ability to communicate and interact with readers. These are some ways you can add interactivity to your blog."
Ga Ga For Google - Improve Your Web Site Ranking for Google
"Learn how to edit your Web page so that it works with the Googlebot and not against it. These tips won't guarantee you top ranking, but they will help."
If You Build It ... Will They Come?
Just building a Web site is not enough, you have to promote it too. Here are some tips to help you build traffic to your site and keep it coming.
Promote Your Web Site With More Than Search Engines
Search engines are just the beginning. There's a lot more to promoting your Web site. Here are a few ideas to get you started. Find out about submitting to search engines, exchanging links, meta tags, newsletters.
"Secret" Ways to Increase Your Web Traffic
10 simple things you can do with your site to increase your traffic.
What's in a Title?
The title tag is one of the most important tags on the page, but it is one that is often overlooked by beginners.

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