WebPlus X4 - Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Part 1/2

In this two part tutorial I show you how you can get prepare your website for search engines, submit your site to search engines and improve your position in search results, and what not to do.

Some of the links i mentioned in the video


Inform search engines
Tell Google - http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Tell Bing - http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx
Tell DMOZ - http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
Please note: All submissions to dmoz (open directory project) are checked manually by a human and it can take months for your site to be added


Submit your sitemap
Google webmaster - http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Bing - Webmaster - http://www.bing.com/webmaster
Ask.com (Slightly different) - http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml



Am i there yet?
To find out if your site is appearing on google/bing/yahoo/ask, in the search box type type site: then the full address of your website


Join services/social network sites/media sites
http://www.freeindex.co.uk/
http://www.yelldirect.com/yelldirect/viewBasketItemStart.do;jsessionid=asswLz...
https://www.bttradespace.com/sign-up
https://www.bttradespace.com/sign-up
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.youtube.com/livingwandsworth
http://vimeo.com/


If you would like to see a tutorial of anything from MS Word, MS Excel, MS Acces, MS PowerPoint, MS OneNote, Serif WebPlus X2/X4, Serif MoviePlus X3 post it in the comments.

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• SEO
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[Lychee7000]

Can you please answer me quickly, how did you get the text around the Robin Stuart image on your article? Did you use only space, i bet you didn't? I have wondered this alot. Please help me. Sorry for my english..

[LivingWandsworth]

@Lychee7000 Hi, There are two text frames, one to the right of the picture and the other beneath it.

[Lychee7000]

@LivingWandsworth

Alright. I have seen on news websites and also newspapers have these articles and news where picture and then text around it. They must have some program for that. Is this possible in Webplus to do this automatically with no self spacing?

[LivingWandsworth]

@Lychee7000 It is possible you simply insert the image into the text frame and set the image option to treat the image as a character. But in some browsers it doesn't always line up properly. On a fixed medium like paper its much easier to do and something like PagePlus has many options. But of course on computers there are so many browsers, and monitors, and resolutions, sometimes the simple approach is the best.

[LoniHart]

Excellent tips! Question: I thought I would submitted all my pages after following the constructive suggestions in this video however I notice that my pages I tried to register with Google had % signs in the URL then when I did a key word search it said the page could not be found. Why did % signs get added to my pages and how to I obtain the accrual page URLS ? Thanks

[LivingWandsworth]

@LoniHart Hi, % marks are usually put in place of spaces in page name. try to have page names without spaces, the url will be your domain followed by the pagename.html.

[Lychee7000]

@LivingWandsworth

I have the same question, is there a way do this text around a video? I see only

insert->picture,break,symbol, but for video i have no idea is it even possible.

[Lychee7000]

Thank you. You maybe should do a tutorial on it. I send you a PM now for another question.

[feedemtothedogs]

Excellent. Thank you. I would also suggest that if you have a lengthy article like the one in your video you break it up with more headings (h2, h3) to make it search engine-friendly and also easier to read for the online visitor.