Google Best Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Practices Part 1
This article will guide you through the important steps on how to create and maintain sites in Google. If you have an existing site, use this as a reference to ensure that you are doing everything right. I am going to review 5 areas at a time.
First things first the domain name dilemma.
Your domain name should be brandable. Keyword rich with hyphens type of domains are not longer relevant. Focus on a .com since it is the one searchers will enter when not sure about extensions, and is the easiest to brand. As far as registering it, do it for more than one year since this helps with the trustbox in Google. If you have many related domain names for the same content it is always good to only take one as the main domain and to redirect (301) any others to it. This way, you can make sure not to have duplicate content issues.
Less is more, when it comes to web design.
Your text content should outweigh your html code. Make sure your code is search engine friendly. That is a big different with being W3C compliant. The W3C is too limited, and a lot of code warnings will appear with perfectly...