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Improving Website Rankings

Each major search engine publishes a list of guidelines to help you improve your rankings. Reviewing these guidelines and being aware of what is considered acceptable and not acceptable will help you win at the search engine game.

Click here to read Google’s search engine guidelines.

Click here to read MSN’s search engine guidelines.

Click here to read Yahoo’s search engine guidelines.

Once you have a search engine-friendly, search engine-optimized website (and if you are a Websketching client, chances are that you do), you need to get it listed on the major search engines. Google is probably the most important of all as it is not only the most popular; it is also used to provide the ""main results"" for various other search engines.

Submit your URL to Google.

Submit your URL to MSN.

Submit your URL to Yahoo!

While there is much to learn regarding SEO techniques, the basics to getting a decent listing are simple:

• create a clean website with relevant content
• use your keywords in the correct places (title tag, meta tags, headings, content, links)
• get some quality links to your site
• submit your site to the search engines
• review and make adjustments as necessary

Good Luck!

Christine DeGraff
Partner/Websketching

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About the Author

Christine DeGraff, Partner/Websketching, has over 8 years of SEO experience and at one time authored a website as "Dr. Meta", a website focused on providing tips and techniques to help users improve their rankings in the search engines.

About Websketching

Since 1999, Websketching has been providing search engine-friendly, custom website solutions to small & mid-sized businesses in NJ, PA and DE. Websketching’s web-based Content Management System allows clients to easily update their own website 24/7 without the need to purchase expensive software and without having to hire a web designer. Visit us online at www.Websketching.com or call toll free 1-888-469-6071 to schedule a free presentation.

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