Chapter 15

Making Your Mobile Site Search-Engine Friendly

In This Chapter

arrow Understanding how search engines find websites

arrow Understanding how search engines index and rank websites

arrow Using meta tags

arrow Using keywords in website copy

arrow Understanding keyword placement and density

arrow Using Sitemaps to submit your site to search engines

Search engines? What do they have to do with HTML and CSS? Considering that much of the process of getting your site found on the popular search engines depends on your markup code, making your site search-engine-friendly has a lot to do with your code.

Traditionally, one of the primary measures of a site's success is how much traffic — how many visitors, or hits, it gets. Despite all the money spent on radio, television, and magazine advertising, search engines — primarily Google — are the real forces that shape Internet traffic. If your site is successful, more people ...

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