Sumantra Roy's Articles http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Top 10 Search Engine Positioning Mistakes Top 10 Search Engine Positioning Mistakes By Sumantra Roy When it comes to search engine optimization, there are certain common mistakes that I see people making over and over again. Here's a list of the 10 most common mistakes that I see people makin... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/top-10-search-engine-positioning-mistakes-386.html 27th December 2004 Software to help you create a robots.txt file Software to help you create a robots.txt file By Sumantra Roy Robogen is a software for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT based computers which can help you create robots.txt files without having to worry about the correct syntax of a robots.txt f... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/software-to-help-you-create-a-robotstxt-file-117.html 11th December 2004 Submit Your Site To Yahoo! Submit Your Site To Yahoo! by Sumantra Roy Getting your site an optimum listing in Yahoo! is perhaps the most important step in effective web site promotion. An optimum listing in Yahoo! can bring in more traffic to your site than all the search engin... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/submit-your-site-to-yahoo-116.html 11th December 2004 Becoming an Open Directory Project Editor Becoming an Open Directory Project Editor By Sumantra Roy Getting your site registered by the Open Directory is vitally important as far as search engine positioning is concerned. In order to see how you can do that, see my article on this topic. Howe... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/becoming-an-open-directory-project-editor-114.html 11th December 2004 Submitting your site to the Open Directory Submitting your site to the Open Directory By Sumantra Roy Getting your site an optimum listing in the Open Directory (DMOZ) is vitally important as far as search engine positioning is concerned as Google gives a lot of importance to sites being liste... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/submitting-your-site-to-the-open-directory-113.html 11th December 2004 Frames and Search Engines Frames and Search Engines By Sumantra Roy When it comes to framed sites and the effect that the use of frames by a site has on its search engine ranking, there are two schools of thought. Some people say that framed sites, if done properly, have no pr... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/frames-and-search-engines-89.html 05th December 2004 Creating a Robots.txt file Creating a Robots.txt file By Sumantra Roy Some people believe that they should create different pages for different search engines, each page optimized for one keyword and for one search engine. Now, while I don't recommend that people create differe... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/creating-a-robotstxt-file-88.html 05th December 2004 Improve the Link Popularity of your site Improve the Link Popularity of your site By Sumantra Roy Link popularity, i.e. the number of sites which are linking to your site, is an increasingly important factor as far as search engine placement is concerned. Other things remaining the same, mor... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/improve-the-link-popularity-of-your-site-86.html 05th December 2004 Glossary of Search Engine Ranking Terms Glossary of Search Engine Ranking Terms By Sumantra Roy Here is a glossary of commonly used terms in the world of search engine ranking. Alt Tag: The alternative text that the browser displays when the surfer does not want to or cannot see the pic... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/glossary-of-search-engine-ranking-terms-85.html 05th December 2004 Which keywords should you optimize your site for? Which keywords should you optimize your site for? By Sumantra Roy In this article, we focus on the correct way of finding out the keywords for which you should optimize your site for the search engines. This article will give you the formula for the... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/which-keywords-should-you-optimize-your-site-for-84.html 05th December 2004 How to choose domain names How to choose domain names By Sumantra Roy The importance of having your own domain name cannot be over-emphasized. If you are running an online business, and don't yet have a domain name, you are probably losing thousands of dollars worth of busines... http://sumantraroy.articlealley.com/how-to-choose-domain-names-30.html 26th November 2004