Create Search Engine Friendly PDF Files Much like normal pages on a website, PDF documents can appear in search results when users search for their desired keyword. Most of the time though, the Title and Description are listed as something crazy and really doesn’t entice searches to click on them. The reason this happens is …

Clicky Website Analytics There are several quality analytics programs on the market to help you gather valuable information about your site and how users interact with it plus measuring the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. This information is crucial if you want to get the most out of your website(s). I use Clicky for all …

Help Google Know What Pages are on Your Site Sitemaps are good ways to let search engines know what pages are in your site. Some say they help expedite the process of getting your pages indexed while others disagree. My theory is that if you have a good navigation system in place for your website, …

Prevent DMOZ Description From Showing in Search Engine Results Sometimes when looking at search engine results, the descriptions will be something other than the meta description or snippets from the site. In most cases, this is the result of the search engine showing the DMOZ description instead. If you have a site listed in DMOZ …

How You Can Rank Higher in Search Engines SEO companies can really enhance the performance of your search engine rankings. This can be a lengthy process depending on the competitive strength of your niche. It can also be an expensive process as well. What can you do yourself to make a difference in your rankings …

Nice Link Gathering Tool Here is a great tool I found that allows you to gather links for search terms in Google that you can use to help plan out a link campaign. It is a slick tool created by Liam Delahunty of Online Sales. He calls it the Google Results Bookmarklet. Check it out.

What is Yahoo Site Explorer? Yahoo Site Explorer allows you to submit feeds or sitemaps for your site, check your pages that are indexed, check internal and external links plus more. You will need a Yahoo account before accessing the Yahoo Site Explorer. If you do not have one, create a Yahoo account.

What is a Google Webmaster Tools Account? It is a site dedicated to providing webmasters or individuals who run their own website the tools for getting them indexed. It also has troubleshooting tools and provides great information for creating a Google friendly site. With the mass majority of searches coming from Google search engines, you …

Submit Your Site for Free The first step to getting your site online and to get better rankings in Google is to submit your URL to search engines. An example of an URL is www.yoursite.com. Eventually the search engines will find your site but this will help expedite the process. Once you submit your URL, …