Search engine search

[Guest Jermain]

how can i improve my website on search engines. i have a website and i want that when people search on google they find the site. thanks. and another thing. what size my background of the site have to be pls thanks

[Xenon Design]

Question 1: how can i improve my website on search enginesAnswer: Meta tags and content placement. When the Google bot views your page it looks at two things. Meta tags and your content. If on your first page you describe about what your site does etc. youll get a good rank but the bigger websites always end up top. For more info go to: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.aspYou can also put your site on the google 'to view' list: http://www.google.com.au/addurl.html---Question 2: what size my background of the site have to beAnswer: There is no set answer. People have different sized monitors set at different resolutions. So you might have a problem. If your having a repeating image in your background try some css tutorials on w3. Heres the link to the css tuts: http://www.w3schools.com/css

[Skemcin]

SEO - search engine optimization is based on a combination of many things. As Xenon mentions you will need to have the proper meta data in place on each of your pages - and they should be specific to that page. But there really is a fine art to making this really work.Basically, there are three principles involved - your content, your code, and your popularity. Please understand that I am just giving a high level overview of this, each site and case has particular specifics that dictate different stategies.Your Content - the content within your site is indeed what search engines crawl through. The content is indexed and matched up with your meta tags and given some relevency accordingly. So you have to look at your title and header tags, your body text, keyword prominance and density, meta tags, robots.txt, alternate text, url/filenames, and even special characters. Any manipulation of this, especially to the extreme, can easily penalize you and even ban you. Of course, the goal is the opposite, so the correct manipulation and implementation can provide the extremely favorable results.Your Code - the way your code is written can play a huge role in you ability to show up in search engines. Certain bells and whistles can hurt you - the over use of flash and javascript are the most popular user enhancements that can effect your SEO. You also have to consider how the use of frames effects the ability to spider your site just as much as looking at how your dynamic pages are generated. Each have caveats that can restrict search engines from moving through your site.Your Popularity - this is probably the area that is gets deprived the most. Search engines actually look at your keywords and meta tags as an alternative to the real way they rank your site. The real way they rank your site is in popularity. The easiest way to illustrate this is for you to think of something you need - say a car mechanic. The first thing you would do is ask a friend, "who do you trust to fix your car". And your friend would hopefully refer one to you. Depending on how much your trust that friend or how you feel about the referral, you might ask someone else. If they happen to refer the same mechanic, your chances of choosing that one increases. If you ask another person, and the same mechanic is referred again, well then you become more and more convinced that is the guy/gal to go with. Now, if no one knew anyone, then you would resort to the yellow pages and then tab through automotive, then repair, then maybe a specialist like mufflers. Search engine work exactly the same way - they work off of referrals. So the more links you have pointing to your site will make search engines and humans believe that the content with in is relevent and trustworthy - just like that mechanic that got all those references. So that is why big sites show up in search engines, because people link to them and a good site will have content that links to itself....and this doesn't even go into the post-go-live strategies and other best practices.(where should I send the invoice)