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Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the how-to-until-search-engines-change-next-week dept.

isharq writes to tell us that SEOmoz has an interesting writeup regarding search engine optimization. The article has quite a bit of info and is geared so that even the inexperienced used can learn the basics of search engine optimization. From the article: "It is our goal to improve your ability to drive search traffic to your site and debunk major myths about SEO. We share this knowledge to help businesses, government, educational and non-profit organizations benefit from being listed in the major search engines."

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  1. similar article by seomoz by QuakerOatmeal · · Score: 5, Informative

    These guys wrote a search ranking factors article a month or two ago that is also a worthy read.

  2. Easy by rbinns · · Score: 5, Informative

    Content, Content, Content... And a little help for the search engines such as ALT tags and relevant TITLE tags. When setting up pages, I often look at the page in Lynx to see what the crawler should see. After all, it is a little hard for the search engine to describe an image without any tag data. Unless, of course, you are amazon and you have a turk at your disposal. Amazon's Mechanical Turk