SEO: Getting Started

If you'd like to see how your site fairs with it's present rankings, a few tools accessible to all will be outlined here.

Twingine

Link Test

To see many of the pages that have links to your website, type in your domain into Google using the format link:domain.com Google has recently changed their algorithm and may not return any results. We have ways of testing multiple search engines to ensure we find every site that links to you. Do NOT engage in link exchanges. These can cause your site to be considered spam and as a result ignored by search engines. Refer to the articles section. You can also try altavista.com: and type in your domain using the following format. linkdomain:domain.com -domain:domain.com

Submissions

If you find a tool to submit your website to search engines, take my advice and don't use it. If you site has not been optimized, you can do more damage than good by submitting a site that is either missing some crucial information, or even worse is over-optimized. We provide a submission service, but we only use it when the page being submitted had been analyzed and optimized.

DMOZ

The Open Directory Project is a large public directory maintained by a group of volunteer editors from around the world who evaluate sites for inclusion in the directory. Anyone can submit to the directory. Make sure to follow the guidelines. Be impartial in your descriptions.

Articles

Google Information for Webmasters
This articles outlines some of the thinks not to do to improve the ranking of your site. It's worth reading before talking to an SEO.

Google Facts & Fiction
Get the facts straight from the horses mouth.