Search Engine Positioning
Table of Contents

Design and Development for Search Engines
Articles, Tutorials
Web Robots and Robots Exclusion Information

Helpful Charts About Search Engines and Directories

How Search Engines Index, Rank Sites
Articles, Tutorials
Checking Link Popularity and Why
Current Keyword Searches (Search Engine Spies)

Search Engine Submissions
Articles, Tutorials
Professional Site Submissions, SEO Experts
Search Engine Submission Programs
Free Search Engine Submissions

Resource Sites
Sites Devoted to Search Engine Info
More Links Resources

Website Promotion

Other Tools
Website Tools (site analysis, optimizing, submitting)
Website Statistics and Counters

Newsletters, Discussion Lists Devoted to Search Engines
Newsletters
Discussion Newsletters or Digests
Forums, Discussion Lists


Design and Development for Search Engines

Articles, Tutorials

  • Designing For Search Engines and Stars
    by Shirley E. Kaiser, M.A., (WebsiteTips.com's Editor) for DigitalWeb Magazine.

    Thorough tutorial that covers a lot of ground, and has received many kudos from top industry experts. Written for site owners, designers, students and instructors. Stated as a "must read" by many industry experts.
    [04/2001 by Shirley Kaiser, for Digital Web Magazine.]

  • Ask the Expert: Danny Sullivan on Search Engines
    From C|Net Builder.com. Great interview article on how search engines find, list, and rank sites and how to use this information to your advantage.
    [11/04/1999 by Sarahjane White, for C|Net Builder.]

  • Building Dynamic Pages with Search Engines in Mind
    by Tim Perdue, PHP Builder. Working with Apache, Tim's tutorial shows you how to code your dynamic pages to not include the & and ? in the URLs (those can stop a search engine dead in its tracks, not indexing your pages properly). Tim's method, which also includes SSI, has proven to work just fine with a site of over 200,000 pages and growing.
    [01/17/1999 by Tim Perdue, PHP Builder.]

  • New Directions in Optimizing Page Content
    by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ. Emphasizes importance of optimizing content for search engines and visitors, quality copywriting, keyword placement, site navigation, links to your site, more.
    [06/13/2001 Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ.]

  • Notes on helping search engines index your Web site
    W3C information about helpful elements to include in your site development and how to implement them, such as the page language using the <LINK> element, keywords and descriptions using the <META> element, and more.
    [W3C - w3.org, HTML 4.01 notes]

  • Priming the Search Engines
    From WebDeveloper.com. A 5-part article filled with info and tips on building your site for optimization from the ground up, site promotion, site submission to search engines, what NOT to do (such as what's considered 'spamming the search engines,'), and a thorough resource of links.
    [by Scott Clark and David Fiedler for WebDeveloper.com]

  • Registering Dynamic Sites
    by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ. Helpful information and tips about search engine optimization for dynamically generated pages. See the follow-up article to this, too - Solutions for Dynamic Page Registration - described below.
    [09/20/2001 by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ.]

  • Search Engine Comparison Chart
    by Submit Corner. Scan this chart quickly to see which search engines support meta tags, which use link popularity, how much time submissions takes, and more.
    [by Submit Corner]

  • Search Engine Friendly URLs with PHP and Apache
    by Garrett Coakley for evolt.org. Helpful, good tutorial.
    [08/21/2001, by Garrett Coakley for evolt.org.]

  • Search Engine Optimisation
    By Tom Farrell, Frontend Usability InfoCentre. Good article about what's important with optimizing your site -- attracting visitors and links from other sites and a site's popularity, in addition to meta tags and other optimizing techniques. Concise, well written article.
    [10/08/2001, by Tom Farrell, frontend.com.]

  • Search Engine Tips
    Good article for newbies or advanced Internet users from Submit It! Great explanations.
    [by Submit It!]

  • Search Engine Tutorial For Web Designers
    From NorthernWebs.com. Helpful tutorial, with the basics and details about designing a website for search engine optimization. Covers numerous search engines, with full pages discussing how many of the top search engines handle indexing.
    [Northern Webs]

  • SEO and the Web Site Design Process
    by Paul Breummer, ClickZ. Good overview article about the top items to consider with SEO and web design.
    [12/19/2001 Paul Breummer, ClickZ. Thanks to womendesigners discussion list.]

  • Solutions for Dynamic Page Registration
    by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ. Follow-up article to Registering Dynamic Sites noted above. Excellent info here, too.
    [09/20/2000 by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ.]

  • The Four Search Engines to be Listed in and Why
    by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ. Very insightful article about which search engines can be most helpful for generating traffic to your website. Good info here.
    [11/08/2000, by Paul Bruemmer, ClickZ.]

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Web Robots and Robots Exclusion Information

Looking for robots, such as Botspot? See the Internet Robots section.

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Helpful Charts About Search Engines and Directories

  • Directory Submission Chart
    One of the most helpful directory submission charts out there with quick information about title length, description length, keywords, how to submit, and turnaround times for submissions, paid submissions or not, and more. Note: this chart is in the subscriber area.
    [by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch]

  • Search Engine Submission Chart
    One of the most helpful charts out there with quick information about time frames for submissions, paid submissions or not, and more. Note: this chart is in the subscriber area.
    [by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch]

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How Search Engines Index, Rank Sites

Articles, Tutorials

  • Google Information for Webmasters
    Google's information about submitting sites, removing sites from their listings, how they rank pages, and more info here. Huge help for Web site owners.
    [Google.com]

  • How Search Engines Work
    by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch. Good overview of how search engines list and rank a website. Links to more articles, info.

  • Search Engine Tutorial For Web Designers
    From NorthernWebs.com. Helpful tutorial, with the basics and details about designing a website for search engine optimization. Covers numerous search engines, with full pages discussing how many of the top search engines handle indexing.

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Checking and Developing Link Popularity and Why

  • Developing a Successful Link-Building Campaign
    Helpful tips and links to information in this informative article about how to develop a successful link-building campaign for your site or for your clients' sites.
    [By Debra Mastaler - December 13, 2001 (From the Rank Write Roundtable Newsletter)]

  • How to Use Search Engines to Find Pages That Link to Your Site
    by Kevin Elliott, About.com Web Search Guide. Short article about how to find sites that are linking to yours. Includes links to more resources.
    [by Kevin Elliott, About.com.]

  • LinkPopularity.com
    See who links to your web site. This service provides an easy one-click method of checking link popularity on three of the major search engines. They also provide a free monthly customized Link Popularity Report via e-mail.

    Check your links here:

    See who links to your web site.

  • Link Analysis Can Help (or Harm) Your Web Site
    by Detlev Johnson for WorkZ. Great explanation about how the search engines rank by link popularity and what you can do to increase your rankings. Links to more resources, too.
    [12/18/00, by Detlev Johnson for WorkZ.]

  • Link Popularity Check - Marketleap Visibility Index
    Very helpful, insightful free tool that charts out your link popularity and compares your results with similar sites if you wish.

  • Links to Your Website--Do They Matter?
    by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. Read about the importance of networking with other websites to have reciprocal links.
    [05/2000 by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns.]

  • Measuring Link Popularity
    by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch. [Article updated 09/06/2001, Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch.]

  • Reverse Search Inside Out: Part 1: Why and How to Search Backwards
    by Kevin Elliott, About.com Web Search Guide. Explains helpfulness of reverse look-ups for a variety of purposes, including finding links to your site. Includes tools, resources, more. Helpful article. [06/11/2001 Kevin Elliott, About.com.]

  • The Road to Link Popularity
    Paul J. Bruemmer, 9-26-2001, ClickZ. Using Google's toolbar to check your popularity, using link popularity for better rankings, realistic ways to build your link popularity.
    [09/26/2001 by Paul Breummer, ClickZ.]

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Current Keyword Searches (Search Engine Spies)

Some of the search engines and directories have pages that show the most current keywords and phrases being submitted in real time. Others reflect top keyword phrases by the day, week, or month. There's a variety of information available, as you'll see in the descriptions.

  • Ask Jeeves Take A Peek
    This page has the top 50 questions being asked at Ask Jeeves, refreshed every 30 seconds.

  • Google Zeitgeist
    "Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google." This page is a good resource for Google info. It lists the following: top 10 declining queries and top 10 gaining queries for the previous week and the previous month. Also for the previous month it lists the languages used to search, country of origin, top 5 translations for anthrax, top image searches. Another chart it shows is the top browsers used for several months (several versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, and "Other"), which is interesting to see for an overall trend over a period of time.

  • Kanoodle Search Spy
    Refreshed every 10 seconds showing the latest searches at Kanoodle. (Warning: this information is unfiltered.)

  • Metacrawler MetaSpy
    Choose the filtered or unfiltered listings of the live top 15-20 searches at Metacrawler. Automatically refreshes every 15 seconds.

  • Search.com Top 100 Searches
    C|net's top 100 searches for the week.

  • The Lycos 50 daily Report
    With Aaron Schatz. List of the top 50 most popular search terms, and includes commentary, FAQs, and more. Quite a gold mine here!

  • Yahoo! Buzz Index
    Lists the current top 20 search terms for the week, with archives to the past several weeks. Shows declining and gaining queries, weeks on the chart, and articles about the top leaders. Additionally, there are links to other sections of information, including category top search terms (movies, music, TV, sports, and other top categories); top photos; most viewed news stories; most e-mail news stories; top overall.

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Search Engine Submissions

Articles, Tutorials

  • Getting Listed in Major Search Engines and Directories
    by Paul Bruemmer. Good article about which search engines are important for submitting your site, the difference between a search engine and a search directory, URLs to the important ones, fees for submissions, and related.
    [Paul Bruemmer, Web-Ignite Corporation.]

  • Search Engine Submission Tips
    Very informative, helpful information from Search Engine Watch.
    [by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch.]

  • The Overlooked Killer App: Paid InclusionNew!
    Learn the basics about paid inclusions, pay-per-click, CPC directories, Per-URL programs, and XML feeds.
    [09/18/2002, by Kevin Lee for ClickZ.]

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Free Search Engine Submissions

  • Search Engine Submission Links
    by J.K. Bowman's Spider Food. Direct URLs to hand submit your site to various top search engines and directories. Also suggests which are more worthwhile to use the paid submissions.

  • SelfPromotion.com
    Submit to sites for no charge or bump up to a professional service.

  • Submit-Away
    Website Promotion Center. Submit site to 600+ directories, more info.

  • Submit It!
    Website promotion and marketing services.

  • Submit to Search Engines
    by KL Nguyen. At least 100 search engines and directories with direct links to submission pages. Short annotations of language and/or country, too.

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Professional Site Submissions, SEO Experts

  • RankWrite
    Top professionals Jill Whalen and Heather Lloyd-Martin. Highly recommended, top in their field.

  • Search Engine Watch
    Top professional Danny Sullivan. Highly recommended, top of his field.

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Search Engine Submission Programs

  • Submission Wolf
    Popular site submission program by Trellian Software.

  • WebPosition Gold
    Top ranked search engine submission software, provides advice, help, much more, in addition to specialized site submissions for each search engine.

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Resource Sites

Sites Devoted to Search Engines, SEO, Marketing

This listing includes sections of Web sites or entire Web sites devoted to search engine information or search engine optimization.

  • Rank Write Roundtable
    One of the best resources around for search engine optimization, information, optimizing your content, and related. They have many easy-to-understand articles and tips, and their weekly newsletter discussion is also archived, packed with tons of helpful, top-notch information.
    [Jill Whalen and Heather Martin, Rankwrite.com]

  • Search Engine Optimization Ethics
    Offers ethical search engine optimization and submission services. In-depth articles on search engine placement and web site promotion issues.

  • Search Engine Secrets
    from Webmaster T's World of Design. Great reference. Tutorials, annotated links to a variety of information.
    [by Webmaster T's World of Design.]

  • Search Engine Watch
    Known as one of the top websites for accurate, up-to-date information about search engines and optimization.
    [by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch.]

  • Web Search
    About.com's terrific section on search engines, optimization, link popularity, and much more. Many good articles, tutorials, links to more. Excellent.
    [by Kevin Elliott, About.com.]

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More Links Resources

The following links are pages or sites with many more links to more resources about search engines, optimization, marketing and promoting your site, and related.

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Website Promotion

  • 10 Site Promotion Tips
    Concise article with good points about bringing in and keeping visitors at your website, including metatags, keywords, marketing and promotion, tracking search engine placement, what to avoid in site design and why (such as image maps and frames), links to resources and further information. Good info here.

  • FAQ: How To Announce Your New Web Site
    Summarizes very well, provides links to resources, search engines, directories, more. Helpful article.

  • Online Publicity Resources
    Helpful listing of high quality resources to promote and list your site.

  • The Beginners Guide to Website Promotion
    Very good introduction to submitting to search engines and how, reciprocal linking, newsletters, announcements, and other means of promoting your site.
    [Northern Webs.]

  • TipsZone.com - web site promotion tips
    Web site promotion, internet marketing, and online advertising tips to help you grow your online business. Highly recommended.

  • Tracking Your Web Site Traffic
    by Jean Kaiser, About.com Guide to Web Design. Detailed tutorial about reading log files, analyzing visitors, learning where they're coming from, freeware and shareware, resources to more info.

  • Understanding the Power of Search Engine Marketing
    by Paul J. Bruemmer, 10-24-01, ClickZ. Article about understanding how search engine rankings impact how people find your site, buy your products and services, and more. Includes statistics, search engines vs. search directories, investing in search engine optimization,

  • Web Site Marketing Primer
    How else can I promote my site?

  • Yahoo! Announcement Services
    Announce your website by registering at any of the dozens of host sites listed at this website, most of which are free. Valuable source.

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Other Tools

Free Online Website Tools

See also
Validating Tools (HTML section)
Link Checkers (HTML section).

See the Design section for learning more about cross-browser accessibility and screen resolutions.

The tools below are free online tools available at the listed Web sites.

  • AnyBrowser.com
    View your website on a variety of browsers from this site, check your HTML, view your site from different screen window sizes, and more tools. A real eye-opener and help to see if changes need to be made to your website to be viewed consistently.

  • Dr. HTML
    Free one-page website analysis tool. Purchase available to analyze your entire website.

  • GoTo Keywords Suggestion Tool
    Fantastic tool to use online. Try a variety of keywords and keyword phrases to see how they rank via GoTo.com's search engine. This is a very helpful barometer for figuring out which keyword phrases to utilize for your website, including paid rankings. (Remember: Keywords and keyword phrases need to be utilized throughout your content, not just your meta tags.)

  • Link Popularity Check - Marketleap Visibility Index
    Very helpful, insightful free tool that charts out your link popularity and compares your results with similar sites if you wish.

  • LinkPopularity.com
    See who links to your web site. This service provides an easy one-click method of checking link popularity on three of the major search engines. They also provide a free monthly customized Link Popularity Report via e-mail.

    Check your links here:

    See who links to your web site.

  • SiteOwner (formerly SiteInspector)
    An all-in-one website that has tools to help your website all at one stop: SiteInspector, LinkFinder, SubmitIt!, Merchant Planet, Position Agent, ListBot, ClickTrade, FastCounter, and more.

  • Web Site Garage
    For website maintenance, run diagnostics on your web pages, see how your web page looks on 18 different browsers. Also has website promotion and analysis tools.

  • Wordspot
    Check out keywords and keyword phrases with this free online tool. Or subscribe to their larger report, too.

  • WordTracker
    This service is the most helpful one available for figuring out the best keywords and keyword phrases to include in the content and meta tags for your site.

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Website Statistics and Counters

  • TheCounter
    Tracks a variety of information about visitors. Shows over period of months or breakdown by each hour or day.

  • eXTReME Tracking
    Free service for statistical tracking. Includes summary totals, unique visitors, domains, countries, cities, system tracking (browsers, screen resolutions and colors), referrer tracking, more. Details at site. For a small monthly fee, this tracking can also be accessible by password with no public viewing (free service is accessible to anyone).

  • HitBOX Site Analyzer
    Tracks and analyzes a variety of information about visitors. Free and charge services available.

  • SiteMeter
    Free service. Tracks page views per visit, time zone, OS, web browsers, more.

  • Website Tracker
    Total hits, unique hits, average hits, visitor profiles, system tracking, more. All information for past 10 days, brief summaries for months, year. Free service.

  • SuperStats
    View site traffic reports, visitor profile reports (browsers, OS, monitor resolutions, colors, countries, more), referrers, search engines, more. Has free version and an upgraded version with a monthly charge (low cost).

  • WebTrends
    Considered one of the best statistical log programs on the market.

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Newsletters, Discussion Lists, Forums

Newsletters

For more, see also the section on Discussion Lists, Ezines, and Newsletters.

Discussion Newsletters or Digests

  • I-Search
    Discussion digest from Adventive. Excellent, great info.

  • Rank Write Roundtable
    Top-notch weekly search engine optimization discussion newsletter geared for site owners and designers. Top-notch, professional.

Forums, Discussion Lists

  • Search Engine Forums
    Find answers and ask your questions here at a variety of forums on specific search engines and general information. Helpful resource.

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