Introduction
The Website Doctor?s prescription to healthy Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Using Keywords
Introductions Don't Have to Be Flashy
Website Maps and Add URL Pages
Website Navigation Bars and Headlines
Website Page Titles, File Names, Meta tags, and Your'e not Dense
Your'e Bloated and Not Relevant
Left Overs, Tiny Letters, and The End

7. Illness: Oh no! There?s no sitemap

Prescription: Create a sitemap off the intro page

If you have important areas of your site that are not linked to from your intro page, then place a link on your page titled ?Sitemap?. On your sitemap page have an organized list of text based links to key areas/pages on your Website.

Search engines and site visitors love site maps.

This link has a good description on sitemap usability:

http://www.useit.com/alertbo...

8. Illness: You don?t know what an ?Add URL? or why they are important

Prescription: Create an ?Add URL? page on your homepage

Website Doctor?s Notes: An ?Add URL? page is a webpage inviting others Websites to link to your Website. It tells them how you would like them to link to you. This may include:

a. Giving them the phrase to use when linking to you (using your keywords)
b. Providing them with the code to copy and paste on their site
c. Images to use if they do not want to use a text based link

It is best to ask them to link to you by a text based link, but provide them with the image option if they still want it.

Your ?Add URL? page may also offer to list their site on your own. It would then provide a form for them to submit their site to you.

After you create the page, link to your ?Add URL? page from your intro page and sitemap calling it ?Add URL?. Reasons for naming it this have to do with tested click through levels.

Why is it important that other pages link to you?

Google, one of the worlds most popular search engines takes into account link popularity when returning search result ranking. Increasing your link popularity (the number of pages linked to you) is a win/win. You win with increased ranking on Google and you get more traffic from the sites that link to you.

Simple link exchanges with other sites in your category are what want. Do not place your site on a free for all link p type Website.

You will also want to monitor and adjust all incoming links that you control or influence to contain your keyword phrases.

Sean Buscay
www.christian-web-masters.comSean Buscay is on a mission to CREATE, ADVANCE, and EXPOUND faith in JESUS using web technology. He is the owner of Christian-Web-Masters.com .