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

9. Illness: Your main navigation bar is image based

Prescription: Replace it with or add a text-based navigation bar to your Website

Website Doctor?s Notes:

If a site does not have a text based navigation bar, then we usually add one for the following reasons:

a. Search engines can not read the text in an image file
b. Search engines can read text based links
c. Most image based navigation bars need JavaScript code to create roll-over effects ?More about that later

Note: A text based navigation bar can be made to look nice and have rollover effects using CSS (Cascading style sheets).

10. Illness: All your headlines and keywords are in image files

Prescription: Put them in text (Are you starting to see a pattern?)

Website Doctor?s Notes: Search engines cannot read text in images.

Many sites like to make their headings with nice fonts that they control by outputting as an image file. Unfortunately headings are usually where a pages most relevant keywords are located.

Keywords and phrases should be taken out of images and placed into text so that search engines can read them. Placing important keywords in heading tags (specifically h1 and h2 tags) gives them greater weight for some search engines. To keep headings in a nice format, use CSS.

I recommend at least one h1 tag per page (acting as a main heading) and trying for a couple of h2 tags (acting as subheads).

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 .