SEO

The search engine optimization article contained lots of best practices and things to avoid for search engine optimazation. Much of it seemed like basic good website building strategy, such as not having spelling/grammar errors, and creating a good hierarchy within the website. Some things that I didn't previously know about were meta tags and robot tags that can be used to help find your page or prevent your page from being searched. Following this guide and utilizing the free web developer services that Google offers would be great ways to start promoting websites that we create.

In addition to utilizing code, when creating a new website we should utilize any means available to get the word out. One such way is through social networking sites. This article here discussed some basic ways to promote your websites using social networking sites. The simplest way would be to set up profiles in social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace, and provide information about our webpages in there. Adding friends, especially others with similar interests, and letting them know about our webpages may not be the most effective means of promotion, but it is a simple way to get the word out.

This blog post here talks a bit about using social bookmarking websites to promote webpages that we create. Its very simple to do. Basically, submit material about your website to the bookmarking website. If users like and rate your content, it can move up through the bookmarking site, gaining more and more viewers. If your content makes it to the homepage, you can gain thousands of viewers within hours. This seems like a very effective way to promote your website, provided you provide your best content on the social bookmarking website and that you post your content on social bookmarking sites featuring topics relevant to the topic of your webpages. I would definitely utilize all of these strategies when creating websites.