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When getting links where should you have the links go? Many say your homepage, others say you should go for deeplinks (pages other than your home page). For best results you should probably have a mix. But how can you tell what percentage of your links are deep? Try the Deep Link Ratio tool.

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If you do a work online chances are you'll encounter a lot of forms. Roboform allows you to fill in these forms automatically. The base version is free, however the pro version allows you to have multiple identities, and custom fields.

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You should always visit your linking partners website to make sure it's something that you want to be associated with. Should your link be on topic ... most of the time the answer is yes. However if you found a website that you really like even if has nothing to do with your website go ahead and link to it, just keep them to a minimum. Unless you are in any of the sin industries (ie p0rn,

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Once you've found people who you'd like to link to you need to contact them and establish the link. Visit the site if they have an automatic form that will make things easy, just follow the instructions on the form. If not you will need to send an email to the webmaster. You can usually find the address somewhere on the website. Send an email to them asking if they would like to trade links with

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Getting inbound links to your website is one important way to help search engines find your content and establish what your website is about. The first step is to find linking partners. One way to do this is go to search engines like Goolge and Yahoo and type in "you keyword(s)" and "add url". This will give site who are related to you who are wiling to trade links. You should be looking quality

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Once your CSS is in place check to see if it's valid with tools like the W3C CSS Validator You can also check the validity of your HTML code with the W3C HTML Validator. Having valid pages while not necessary is always better. Once your pages have been validated you can check the download times the NetMechanic HTML Toolbox

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The biggest advantage of CSS is it allows you to place the main text on the page, first in the code, after the navigation, right and left columns, and footer. This is important as it allows you to have a greater keyword density and proximity. You can see it when you use the spider simulator. To find examples of some CSS template to use a s a starting point for your own visit any of the following

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Tables are meant for tabular data not for design. With CSS you can have the same level of design control without giving in to inefficient and cumbersome code. You can read an article on Sitepoint on tables versus CSS.

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One of the most important benefits is the ability to separate content and context. The means the actual text is separate from the graphics and presentation layer. Why is this important? It allows you to change the look and feel often very dramatically by changing only the CSS file. An example of this can be found at CSS Zen Garden. You can scan through all of the designs, and bear in mind they

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CSS designed websites allow you the additional design flexibility and control that is unavailable with standard HTML. If used properly it will result in a more streamlined code that that is easier to read for search engine spiders. This is accomplished by separating the content from the context. The content exist in the HTML while the context or layout exists in the CSS file. The following

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How "good" or "evil" is your website? A tool called the germatriculator can tell you. It's not perfect but it is interestingly enough closer to the target than not. Give some things a try and then test your website. Before this posting this website was 59% good and 41% evil.

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One of things search engines like is unique content. Exactly how unique is a matter of debate. With some things such as a technical product specification page it become difficult to be actually unique you want to compare your page against several of your competitors pages to see exactly how unique it is you can use the duplicate content checking tool.

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One of the factors used by search engines is keyword density and proximity. Keyword density refers to what percentage your keyword(s) are part of the whole. The higher the percentage the better. However go two dense and you page will not read correctly and look like spam. Proximity refers to how close the keyword is to the front of the article. Again the higher the proximity the better. So you

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To understand search engines you need to start seeing through thier "eyes". Search engines use programs called "spiders" to crawl acros the web and gather information about the pages it visits. One of the key factors to understand is spiders can only see text, and links graphics have no meaning to them. To help you get better understanding of this point try a spider simulator. Try looking at

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Content is King! It's a common mantra you hear when you ask what's important when you are building a website. Search engines love content. Another great thing about content is, if it's really useful, interesting or compelling people will link to it. Well what if you've gone through all of the trouble to write unique original and compelling content, how do you stop someone from stealing it? Well

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You need to download the Google Toolbar. It has a lot of features that you may or may not use but the biggest advantage is it allows you to see Pagerank™ at a glance. Yes there are other place you can get page rank without the Google Toolbar and places you can estimate your future Pagerank but the toolbar is pretty handy. Pagerank is not the be all end all to webranking it was in years past. In

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