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Building Links For Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
In the past all you had to do to get good rankings in Google and the other search engines was to trade links with several other web sites using your key words in the link text. Although this still holds true today, I have reason to believe sites...

Color Psychology for webpages
Colour is an aspect of a website that is often picked haphazardly and without any thought from a beginner web designer. The lesser known quality of the colour of a website is that it can greatly affect the mood of your visitors. It is because of...

I Used to Be A Hosting Refugee
Back in 1997 when I first started out doing web design, learning HTML, building pro-bono websites for non-profits, I utilized the cheapest hosting I could find. In most cases, I used free hosting, and well, I got what I paid for. Soon...

Now you have a Web site. Have you ever heard of accessibility?
An accessible Web site is easily approached, easily understood, and useable for all. There are accessibility standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium, which all sites should adhere to as much as possible. Web site owners should be...

Understanding HTML
HTML is a relatively simple language, in some places it is almost completely readable and understandable but that doesn't stop people from having problems with it. Why is that? It's mainly because, while the HTML tags themselves are...

 
Quick Web Page Checks

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How often have you seen a webpage called "no title" a quick Google search yields over 1 million. The Title tag is probably the most important meta tag for page optimization and over a million pages have just squandered it!


Most people make a web page using a web page template and another common mistake is to forget to change the meta keywords or description of the template.


Mistakes are easy to make and it is easy to forget things so what I try to do when I submit a web page is to.

<UL> <LI>Make sure it is spell checked. <LI>Copy my meta description into a webpage editor with spell checker to confirm that I haven't made any spelling mistakes. Most editors don't spellcheck the meta tags only the text you see. I generally do this by using the description on my article list page. (see below) <LI>Use an online meta tag checker to make sure the tags are there and that they are correct for the page. <LI>Check to see if the Google ads ( if used) match the page content. <LI>Manually check any links to see that they work. <LI>Check that I have at least one page that links to it. I use an article page where I list all my articles. I also use a sitemapbut I don't update it each time but once a month. <LI>Check to see how the page displays in Internet Explorer and Firefox. I've previously encountered problems with Firefox not displaying styles correctly or should I say differently to Internet Explorer. <LI>I sometimes use an HTML checker like CSE HTML validator.</FONT></LI></UL>
About the Author

Stephen Cope is a freelance trainer and the Webmaster at - making a website, Niche Website Guide. ,Money Making Websites , IncrediMail and Outlook Express Updates.


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