Directories
Add website to directory such as http://www.dmoz.org/Navigate to appropriate category to add your website
Popular Search Engines
- google.com
- bing.com
- search.yahoo.com
- altavista.com
Important Tags for SEO
Title<title> appears in the search result; make it meaningful; use keywords in title
Use keywords people are likely to use to search for your site
Use different titles for different pages to increase the chance of being found
Use potential keywords to find top organic results that you want to target.
Find how often the potential and other related keywords are used on the top sites http://seokeywordanalysis.com/seotools/
Description
Beginning text of <body> appears as description in search result. To override this behavior, explicitly specify the description in the metadata section (head tag) of one or more pages. Limit to about 155 characters.
<meta name="description" content="this is useful information.."/>
Use appropriate text (full sentences/phrases) for other tags such heading tags and alt tags that a search engine might use to categorize your site.
Other Tags for SEO
author - for publisherskeyword - comma-delimited list of keywords. Mostly ignored by search engines due to spamming (repeating) keywords
robots - "noindex, nofollow" to instruct search engine not to index the page and not to follow the links on the page
Page Content Specification
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x"/>
where x can be UTF-8 for English or some language specific character set (Chinese, Japanese)
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
Promoting Website
Provide useful tools or information to entice users and search enginesSee also:
http://www.ehow.com/promote-your-website/
