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Checklist before submitting your site to the search engines.
Do not submit your website to any search engines if you or an SEO
consultant can not answer yes to each one of these important points.
To get the best results for your website, each of the following
items must be examined and corrected if necessary.
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Does your
website consist of at least six individual web pages?
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Does each of
these web pages contain at least 200 words of visible text?
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Do your web
pages contain enough text content that it is easy for web surfers
and search engines find out what your web site is all about?
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Are your web
pages linked so that search engines and web surfers can find all
web pages of your web site through the links on other pages of
your site?
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Have you
optimized at least four of your web pages for your keywords? Focus
on two of your primary keyword phrases.
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Have you made
sure that the HTML code of your web pages is valid so that search
engines don’t have difficulty when they try to index your web
site?
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Have you
removed frames wherever possible on your web site? It is very
difficult to get high search engine rankings with a web site that
uses frames.
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Have made sure
that you don’t use a welcome page or intro page on your web site?
Many search engines won’t be able to index your site if you use
such a page?
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Do you use as
few Flash elements as possible? Search engines cannot index them
properly.
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Have you added
some optimized static pages if your web site is dynamically
created? Many search engines have difficulty with dynamically
created web pages.
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Do your web
pages look attractive to human web surfers?
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Would you go
to your web site instead of a competitor web site if you were a
web surfer?
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Does your web
site have its own domain name and is it hosted on a fast and
reliable web server?
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Have you
avoided using special characters in your URL (&, $, =, %, etc)?
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Have you
properly configured the robots.txt.file?
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