SEO and CSS
one of the #1 things a new webmaster or designer can do for his/her site is to know who your target customer is. If you don’t know who your target is you can not even begin to put together a good layout or navigation, or really anything at all for your website. How can you do any of these things without knowing who you are trying to attract?
With this in mind, we will assume that you have your target firmly centered in your cross-hairs, and we will go over the top 10 things you need to look at for SEO.
1) Title tag - this has got to be at the top of the list, because it’s at the top of your page! 
usefull keyword rich titles are important. If you just have the default “home” for a title you will have a hard time with the search engines.
2)Meta-tags - this, according to some is not as important anymore, but I belive the keyword tag, and the discription, geo, and content tags are still VERY important.
3)Layout - how is your site layed out? What is the first thing a search engine going to read on your page? Your navigation, or your content? A lot of SEO experts are going to right side navigation beacuse of this question….I think it is a better way of doing things for just this reason.
4)Flash- Great stuff —- in moderation. If the whole site is in flash, the search engines won’t see anything except the code for the plugin, get board and leave. your content NEEDS to be readable by the bots.
5)Navigation - K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid) if your visitors can get confused on where to go, it’s a sure thing the bots will too.
6)Content - YEAH! more more more, and keep it updated.
7)Links -if your are talking about the newest CSS designing techniques, link to articles about CSS designs. (shows you want to be relivent to this term)
8)Directories - Are you listed in places like DMOZ? There are some good diretoies out theer that don’t cost an arm and a leg, link love is needed to help raise you in the all mighty search engines eyes. This is one way of starting this step of your proccess.
9)Articles - Do you write articles? Either in blogs, or places like News Vine? Great way to get out there in the public eye.
10)LINKS! - like the directory idea in #8, links are the moast important thing in the search engines eyes. The more sites that link to yours the better, but you want them to be quality links not quantity. If you have 1000 sites linking to you, but they have nothing at all to do with your subject matter, they will help a little (maybe even hurt if they just appear over night). But 50 GREAT links about related matter and you will get more out of it. This is the hardest thing to get done, but doing it right will give greater results than giving your web addy to a FFA ( Free For All) link exchange.
Hope this helps someone out there at least
Shannon
Tampa website Design
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