If you have a website that you want ranked with higher rankings, there are several things you can do on your own to increase rankings. One thing you can do is double check the usage of alt text and heading tags on your sight. I've noticed by not having heading tags and leaving the alt text blank, search engines like Google will rank you with a lower score. This has happened to some of my pages, so I am speaking from experience. Recently I did a revamp on some of the pages on my site and noticed that my page ranking had dropped. I couldn't figure it out until finally I caught a clue, and compared my old pages with the new ones...

This article is most useful if you are somewhat familiar with HTML and CSS. I explain the concepts well enough that you do not have to be an expert, but I want to provide material that will introduce you to more advanced design in ways you can understand..

Webmaster World : One of the most frequent questions posted in the Apache Server forum is "How can I change my dynamic URLs to static URLs using mod_rewrite?" So this post is intended to answer that question and to clear up a very common misconception.

High Rankings Forum - "Are there any evidence that having inbound .edu and .gov links are 'better' links and counts more than other links ?"...

Back to the basics for a minute - let's talk about how to create the ideal title tag. There are several best practices that, in my opinion, make a big difference for the major effects you're shooting for in title tag optimization (CTR in the SERPs, rankings at the search engines and value to users as navigational data). In the simplest situation, you've got 3 pieces of data to convey: Company or Website name (for branding and ID purposes), location in site architecture (if on a non-landing specific page), Keyword term or phrase targeted for search traffic...

Many people incorrectly believe that good meta tags are all that is needed to achieve good listings in the search engines, which is entirely incorrect. While meta tags are usually always part of a well optimized page they are not the be all and end all of optimizing your pages. In the early days of the web people were able to get great listings from optimizing just their meta tags, but the increasing competition for good search engine listings eventually led to many people spamming the search engines with keyword stuffed meta tags. The result is that the engines have changed what they look at when they rank a web page...

As fancy as the term "blog" sounds, it's actually just a website that uses a content management system. While most blog software is more search engine friendly out of the box than many web sites, the opportunities for blog optimization are readily available.

Here are 10 tricks that will increase your visibility in search engines and eventually drive more traffic to your blog...

Ever wonder what the biggest SEO myths are? I have taken the most prevalent myths that seem to be constantly resurfacing and examined them for you. This is a must read for anyone looking to hire an SEO firm or someone looking to do SEO for themselves...

The major factor for success on the Internet is link popularity. If you have good link popularity it can increase traffic to your web site by bringing high ranking on search engines. It is quite difficult task for a new site to build link popularity which has just born here we will discuss what strategy a new site should adopt to boost link popularity. First of all let's understand the meaning of link, link popularity and link exchange.

To understand how to avoid stop words, you first have to understand what stop words are. Search engines have words or phrases that are considered 'stop words'. When a spider or crawler encounters one of these stop words, they will immediately leave your website and any information they gathered from it will not be saved in their database. This means that your website will not be indexed. If your website is already indexed in a searched engine, the crawler will come back to see if there are updates - and if it finds stop words when it does this, then your site could get banned from the search engine. You will not be allowed to remove the words and re-submit: it's too late...