Link Building Tips/Guidelines
TIPS:
- Shorten the title to 55 chars
- Add the robots tag
- Place the robots.txt in your root on your server
- Get rid of the js in the code and put it in an external file
- Use css instead of color, size and font tags
- Change the link buttons or js links in to text links
- Make sure to have a site map page
- Make sure you have 404 page
- At the bottom of each page use menus as text links
- Make sure your page code is not bigger than 100 K
- Submit your site to ODP and Yahoo Dir, make sure to select the right cat
- Pay special attention to your content
- Try to get as much as relevant links you can
- Read each search engines guide lines and follow them strictly
- Don't spam
- Don't use doorway pages
- Don't cloak
- And pray hard that the big G appreciates all your efforts
- use wordtracker.com to research the proper keywords for your site.
- Include your keywords in the alt tags of images.
- Use the H1 tag for page headings (you can alter the way h1 displays text with CSS. . .).
TIPS for Directory submission: The following will also not be accepted in directory or search engine submission
- Mirror pages
- Doorway pages
- Sites with dead links and missing images
- Sites still under construction
- Affiliate sites or sites with only affiliate links or banners
- Sites that redirects to another address etc.
- Your Submission will not be accepted:
- if the entry is in all capital letters.
- if every word is capitalized, in the sites title or description.
- if there are symbols, in the sites title or description.
- if there is excessive punctuation marks or keywords in the sites title or description.
- if the site title is repeated in the description.
- if anything to boost your sites listing is used.
- if too many keywords are supplied.