FREE Search Engine Placement Articles

Here is an excellent collection of articles written by one of the foremost search engine placement specialists on the Internet - Sumantra Roy of 1st Search Engine Ranking.com. If you want your site to get a high ranking in the search engines, we highly recommend them.

We have linked to each of the articles that he has written. We recommend that you go through each of them.

1) Why is search engine positioning important? Tells you exactly why you should be concerned about what the search engines think about your web site.

2) A word of caution: What you need to have on your side if you are going to do your own search engine positioning.

3) The Tools of the Trade: Don't even think of doing your own search engine positioning unless you have this software with you.

4) Choosing the correct keywords for your site: Tells you how you can choose the keywords for which you should optimize your site for the search engines.

5) The importance of having your own domain name: Tells you why you need to have your own domain name.

6) How to choose domain names: Tells you how you should name your web site with an eye on the search engines and directories.

7) Measuring Link Popularity: Tells you how you can measure the link popularity of your web site in the major search engines.

8) Creating Keyword Rich Pages: Tells you how you can create pages which are designed to rank highly in all the search engines.

9) Creating Doorway Pages: Tells you the correct method of creating doorway pages.

10) Creating Hallway Pages: Tells you the correct method of installing the doorway pages in your server.

11) Creating a robots.txt file: Tells you how you can create a robots.txt file in order to prevent your site from being penalized for spamming by the search engines.

12) Software to help you create a robots.txt file: Describes a software which will automate the task of creating a robots.txt file.

13) Glossary: Contains an explanation of commonly used terms in the search engine positioning world.