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Adrian W. West, Practical Web Design for Absolute Beginners, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1993-5_19

19. Search Engine Optimization

Adrian W. West

(1)Colyton, UK

When you eventually launch a website on the World Wide Web, you hope it will be found as soon as possible by search engines such as Bing, Yahoo! and Google. This chapter contains the following sections that will help you to maximize the probability that your site will be found:

  • How search engines work

  • What search engines look for

  • Choosing keywords and phrases

  • Keywords in headings

  • Keywords/phrases must be present in the body of the page

  • Restrictions on excessive repetition

  • Things you should never do

  • A web page containing no search engine optimization

  • Let people know that your website ...

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