http://seofordesigners.com What website designers need to know about SEO Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:59:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To rank on Google, you need links pointing to your site and it's content.  Therefore, as a designer, you may be asked about link building and what your client needs to know about it. Link submission services typically do not work.  The best way to get your new website noticed to ... http://seofordesigners.com/link-building/link-building-facts/ Google has been discussed a lot this year based on the private document that has been readily available on the internet entitled "Google Guidelines for Quality Raters". Ok, to the general public, the Google Algorythm is computer-based, not human-based.  Otherwise, how could it possibly be objective?  Well, it can't and so ... http://seofordesigners.com/uncategorized/google-algorythm-aint-what-it-used-to-be/ According to an article in eWeek a bit ago, some former Google engineers have rolled out a new search engine...one that will index more of the web than Google...faster and cheaper.  This is the first time another search engine has truly thrown down the gauntlet and made it known that ... http://seofordesigners.com/the-big-three/the-cool-or-cuil-new-search-engine/ This is my constantly expanding list of sites to get listed on - based on the fact that they show themselves as IBLs on Google (therefore, increasing rankings in the SERPs): http://www.prolinkdirectory.com/ http://www.jtrotta.com http://www.iwebdirectory.net http://www.worldsiteindex.com http://www.webdesignplaza.com/web-designers-affordable.html (Web design related only) http://www.linkforever.net/ http://seofordesigners.com/seo-basics/in-bound-link-directories/ Ok, what does this mean to designers in SEO-land? Nothing at this point, but it should be kept an eye on simply because any kind of merger between the 'lesser two' search engines will signify some major changes and would possibly make google 'tighten the ship' a bit, but it's ... http://seofordesigners.com/the-big-three/microsoft-steps-up-talks-to-purchase-yahoo/