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Building a search engine friendly website or webpage is not rocket science. Here are our top tips to help maximise your chances of getting your website listed higher in search engine results.

• Make quality content a priority.
• Structure content using h1, h2, h3,<strong>, <p> tags.
• Title, keywords, descriptions relevant to each page.
• Use and link keywords and phrases within page content.
• Keep away from highly competitive keywords and phrases.
• Put content, structure and usability over design.
• Site coding - build for both humans and machines.
• Exchange links or content with complimentary websites.
• Keep your website content regularly updated.
• Search engines can also read PDFs, PPT, Doc, Excel etc.
• Use Flash wisely - don’t build your website entirely with Flash.
• Understand and respond to visitors needs - view visitors log.
• Don’t spam the search engines.

There is a wealth of information on the web dedicated to search engine optimisation and how you can do it. Below is a small selection of the ones we found most helpful

Visit these websites to find out more about search engines:

1. DMOZ Search List
2. Wikipedia: Search Engine
3. Evolution of Web Searching
4. Google-Friends
5. Yahoo! Search Blog
6. Website content analyser
7. History of Search Engines
8. How internet search engines work
9. Search engine optimisation

Distributed by Michael G @ http://www.creotec.com

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