Best Practices to Improve Search Relevancy:
- Use a Robots.txt file and the Robots meta-tag (from RobotsTxt.org)
- Writing for Search Engines - Help content providers prepare documents for publication
- Separate Content from Presentation
- Make your sites easy to navigate; create a sitemap.
- Use the HTML Heading H1-H6 tags
- Interlink (or cross-link) from other sites
- Validate all HTML content
- Clean old files off your web servers
- Follow File Size Limit Guidelines
- Get Listed Here by emailing here.
- Register as a California Site (with the domain format www.statewebsite.ca.gov)
- Use a link checker to find broken links: Firefox Addin Xenu's Link Sleuth
- Make Search-Engine Friendly URLs
- Remove Duplicates
Related Websites
- Choosing Keywords
- Robots.txt Generator - Generating a robot file with this tool is ideal if you wish to block certain directories or files from search engines.