http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/categories SEO 2010-07-30 http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/115/How-Search-Engines-Connect-Sellers-and-Buyers http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/115/How-Search-Engines-Connect-Sellers-and-Buyers 2009-09-25 The search engine will rank highest those websites it feels are most "important". This means you have to show that your website is most important. There are a few simple things you can do. First, make sure you have content. Text content equals importance on the Internet. http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/116/Five-SEO-Tips-to-Improve-Your-Search-Engine-Ranking http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/116/Five-SEO-Tips-to-Improve-Your-Search-Engine-Ranking 2009-09-25 I can't promise you gazillions, but there are a few things you should do to make it easy for search engines to find you. I assume you have already decided to submit your site to the major search engines and directories. I assume that you will develop some sort of linking strategy. http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/233/There-is-More-to-SEO-than-Rankings http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/233/There-is-More-to-SEO-than-Rankings 2009-10-31 Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions in SEO is that ranking at Google and Yahoo is all that counts in search engine optimization. Potential clients come to me with a single goal: "Get me a top-ten ranking at Google." http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/269/Google-Caffeine-and-the-New-Ranking-Factors http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/269/Google-Caffeine-and-the-New-Ranking-Factors 2009-12-07 Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s "Next Generation" search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s updates, but a major "Overhaul" of its index and algorithm. http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/287/Enter-Online-Communities http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/287/Enter-Online-Communities 2010-01-07 Online community has been a very trendy word to use lately. It is used often to define different social groups using Internet to communicate and interact with each other. The best examples in term of social sites are the well known Facebook, Digg or simply MSN Messenger. http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/288/Internal-Links-to-Help-Your-SEO http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/288/Internal-Links-to-Help-Your-SEO 2010-01-07 Internal linking simply refers the links between pages on your site. If used well, it is a great way of helping users navigate through your site and help search engines with the indexing of the site and its ranking in some way on its search results. http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/311/Do-Popups-Affect-Ranking? http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/311/Do-Popups-Affect-Ranking? 2010-01-31 Pages using the javascript "window.open" command rank higher on both of the leading search engines (Yahoo and Google). http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/326/Measure-Inbound-Links http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/326/Measure-Inbound-Links 2010-02-08 Most search engines like Google use inbound links or back links, depending on what you call them, to measure if a site is relevant for a specific search query made by an internet user. Even if inbound links are not all to get top of Google, they play a very big part in the process alongside other factors. http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/327/Learn-From-Your-Competitors http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/327/Learn-From-Your-Competitors 2010-02-08 By just looking at one or all of your competitors sites, you can find a lot of very interesting things and learn a lot. This is why competitor analysis really should be in everybody’s strategy. How can you stay in a market if you do not know your competitors well! http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/400/Search-Engine-Optimization http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/400/Search-Engine-Optimization 2010-04-01 use keywords that reflect accurately your business. You may end up with fewer visitors, but you will have better qualified visitors and in the end that means higher revenue. http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/493/How-to-Hard-Wire-Your-Site-to-Google http://www.lighthousearticles.com/view/article/493/How-to-Hard-Wire-Your-Site-to-Google 2010-05-03 when it comes to online search, Google will deliver the majority of your quality organic traffic. For webmasters and especially for online marketers, having your website virtually hard-wired to Google is a marketing Must-Do.