Our Featured Training Partners:
JER Group, Inc. (onlineworkshops)
JER Group, Inc. (onlineworkshops and certificates) offers online courses in Search Engine Positioning and International Positioning which are in high demand worldwide. Workshops are offered at the basic and advanced level and are facilitated by web optimization experts and specialists. Courses in search engine positioning include:
- Search Engine Training Workshop (Without Software)
- Pay Per Click Search Engines-Boost Traffic to your Site
- Master Search Engine Optimization Competencies for Web Developer (MSEOC)
- Search Engine Competency Assessment-Level 1 (SECA Basic Certification)
- Search Engine Marketing Strategies for Small Business Operations - Instructor Led
- Self Directed Tutorial--Teach Yourself Search Engine Training Strategies in 7 Days (With Search Engine Commando Software)
- Instructor-Led-- Search Engine Training Workshop (With Search Engine Commando Software)
JER offers over 350 online and interactive courses and 8 certificate programs. Visit the site Learn more about these online search engine optimization courses. College Accredited Certification available from Ohio University. International versions of these search engine positioning courses are also available - see the site for further info.
Learn more about these online search engine courses.
Spider Food
Spider Food is full of great tutorials, advice and information on search engine optimization and web promotion. You'll find tutorials in a wide range of topics including:
- keywords
- page titles
- meta tags
- design/layout
- link popularity
- SEO themes
You'll also find other search engine optimization resources, free software downloads, reference charts, submission guides and discussion forums.
Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers
Learn search engine positioning with The Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers. It explains how to design your pages keeping the search engines in mind, design strategies for the specific engines, and how to build your meta tags.
Bruce Clay's Methodology for Search Engine Ranking
Great free advice on how to optimize your web site design for top search engine listings. You'll learn the ranking methodologies to follow in order to obtain high rankings for your particular search criteria. This page is highly interactive and you'll be able to perform keyword search exercises to identify your competition and then choose and fine tune your keyword selections. And of course, you'll learn some excellent tips and tricks to help you improve your listings on search engines.
How to Obtain Top 20 Search Engine Placement
Another must-read guide to getting top search engine listings is Bob Massa's Magic-City web site. You can choose to hire Bob Massa's team of experts to have your site ranked in the top 20 or if you are the do-it-yourself type, then you'll benefit from reading Bob's guide to attaining top 20 search engine positions. Ranking tips and tricks include:
- How many keywords and keyword phrases to use
- How to select your keywords
- How to design your main page for best ranking results
- Submitting to specific search engines
You can also do a search right here to see how your website is listed in the top search engines or you can submit to the top search engines here for free.
All I Know About Specific Search Engines
All I know about this site is that it is a must read! Before you submit to the top search engines, check here for the low-down on how each search engine ranks your listing.
For each search engine there is a full page of detailed information including:
- General Information
- How It Works
- Spam Policy
- How to Change or Remove an Entry
- Tips and Tricks for Top Listings
- How to Tell if You've Been Spidered
SearchEngines.com
SearchEngines.com is a big resource for all things search. You'll find a wealth of resources and tools for searching the web, as well as how to optimize your site, how to submit your site, and how to promote your site. Also useful is the large collection of search engine listings, categorized by theme, topic and region.
Tools to Help Improve Your Ranking
Link Popularity
A free online service that checks your link popularity. Because search engines are starting to use link popularity in the ranking determination, you'll want to monitor who's linking to your site and discover other sites you can exchange links with.
Keyword Counter
Use this free keyword analyzer to compare keyword density of top words in URLs. Analyze density of your keywords before you submit to engines for one last check that your pages are fully optimized for high search engine rankings.
Where Do You Rank? Are You in the Top 20?
WebPosition Gold
If your goal is appear in the top ten listings of the most important search engines then you will need two things:
- You have to know the many techniques that will move you into a top 10 position.
- Once you learn how to achieve a top 10 search position, you have to monitor your progress.
WebPosition Gold is the first product to combine all the following features designed to launch your Web site to the top of the search engine results:
- Generates HTML pages designed to rank near the top of the search results.
- Analyzes your existing Web pages and gives plain-English advice on how to improve them.
- Includes a simple, built-in HTML editor for fast and easy changes.
- Uploads your new and changed pages.
- Submits your pages to the major U.S and International search engines.
- Reports your positions on each search engine for each keyword you are targeting.
- Tracks the number of visitors to your site, where they came from, and what keywords they used to find you.
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Site Validation Resources
Before you submit to search engines, optimize your load time and validate your code with these tools and resources:
Bobby
Tests for accessibility for those with disabilities
W3C HTML Validation Service
Checks HTML as well as CSS
HTML Help - HTML Validator & CSS Check
You can validate your entire site here or check files on your hard drive
AnyBrowser
Make sure your site looks good in any browser
How Do You Look on TV?
You can download the Web TV Viewer Tool to see how your pages look on TV.
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