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Guest Post on Freelance Folder – 10 SEO Techniques All Top Web Sites Should Use

By Selene M. Bowlby in Web Design on November 5th, 2008

Continuing on the theme of guest blogging, my second article on Freelance Folder has just been published…

10 SEO Techniques All Top Web Sites Should Use

Here’s a brief introduction to the post below:
read the full article here

We recently discussed the 15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have. This post focused on elements relating to design, content and development. This time, we’ll move onto the important issue of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

SEO is such a hot topic these days. How do you get your web site within the first page or two of the search engines? How do you increase your Google page rank?

There are companies who dedicate themselves full time to doing SEO at a pretty penny. Something a lot of people can’t necessarily afford to pay for or spend the time on.

However, there are some simple things you can do when building your site that will help increase your chances of having good results. In no particular order, below are 10 of these items…

The Inside Story

A bit of a secret for my readers (and Twitter followers) is that both of these posts originated as one obscenely long article. There was enough of a break in the overall topic to split it into two entirely separate articles.

So, I hope you’ll head over to Freelance Folder to read the full post and share your thoughts!

The Power of Social Media

I was incredibly overwhelmed with the great success of the last post – it actually hit the front page of Digg! Something I have never experienced, nor would have expected – so far it has received well over 1,500 diggs!

I think my Twitter friends played a very large part in this, so if you’re reading – Thank You for your incredible support! And if you want to try for it again, I’d be incredibly greatful

Image credit: Unhindered by Talent

About the Author

Selene M. Bowlby is a web designer and front-end web developer with over ten years of professional experience in the design industry. As the owner of iDesign Studios she specializes in creating custom web sites for other businesses. more »