Do you start with one of your targeted keywords when constructing your Web site's title, or is it the third or fourth word of the site's title In many ways, the Title tag has replaced the keyword META tag, and many people would argue that this has effectively become the keyword META tag

Your Page Rank does not directly influence your ranking in the search engines, but it does indirectly influence your ranking in many ways What is a Page Rank

As a small e-business owner, you should know about Craig's List because it is a great resource to find inexpensive help to grow your e-business While much of the site is occupied with buying and selling of used household items, roommate searches, personal ads, and chitchat, there are great business resources there also

There are so many issues to consider when selecting a domain name Most companies are not aware of all of these, and they choose poorly

There are many places in your HTML you can include keywords, but the Titles and descriptions are arguably the most important elements of your Web site These places are not the most important in terms of their ability to improve rankings in the search engines, or in terms of the search engines algorithm, but are most important in terms of their ability to compel someone to visit your Web site

It used to be that every search engine had a submission page (an "Add URL" interface) and all a Webmaster needed to do was to visit each search engine, find the link to the submission page, enter their Web site's URL, and be done with the process The search engines, however, responding to the many people who abused their submission interface, found it necessary to set undisclosed submission limits, watch the identities of the submitters, block many submitters, and even ban Web sites that submitted too frequently or too aggressively

If, as a Internet marketer, you expect to survive and be found, you need to learn how to: 1) place your pages in the high-traffic core, and 2) achieve a high ranking in the major search engines Otherwise, your sites will be like little islands in the sea: remote, inaccessible, and forgotten

Search engines change their ranking algorithms from time to time A page in your Web site that earned a top ranking last week might drop in the rankings a few months later

Everyone hates the thought of statistics However, if you don't track the status at your Web site, you will never truly understand who is visiting your Web site and, more importantly, why

The practice of "cloaking" involves writing a server-side script that detects the IP address of the incoming search engine and serves it a Web page that is different from the one displayed to the general public The indexed Web page is hidden behind a stealth script, and when the user clicks on the listing in the search engine, he or she is automatically redirected to a client's site