Search Engine (SEO) Tips

Good design makes for a visible website.  It is always a good idea to:

• Use a Textual Menu system (instead of images which look nice but Google cannot see as well)
• Offer a sitemap to important parts of your website (categories)
• Keep list of links reasonable (so you do not drown out important links)
• Set "ALT" on images
• Make sure page title, keywords and description match page content
• Avoid broken links
• Void ? in the URLs.  Many search engines ignore them
• Make sure your site has a robots.txt file
• Make sure your website comes up quickly (slow servers are penalized)
• Give useful content
• Avoid "link schemes"
• Avoid hidden text (colored same as background to hide content)