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Post your favorite SEO tips and tricks, do's and don'ts, what do you consider black hat, legal-illegal, onsite SEO, offsite SEO, what's so 1999 and what's so 2011 :) etc...

Need to update my knowledge on that field :thumbsup

meta keywords and description along with "hidden" text on your page wrapped with <h1></h1> tags will get you great results









































in the year 2001 :1orglaugh

Why would any webmaster here want to actively help others compete against them?

All you'll get here is misinformation and people having a laugh :)

You will get better knowledge from googeling your thread title

i am not asking for complete and customized how-to from 0.

just some tips and maybe tricks which are recent in seo.

for instance i never believed much in pr and now they finally dropped it.

Spamming urls on forums, I consider that black hat and illegal.

1999 - legal sites and honest business
2011 - illegal 3d HD porn tubes, trojan horses and silent cookie s****ing

:2 cents:

OK here's the stuff I am aware of:

- XHTML/CSS, no tables in layout, CSS code linked from the separate file, no useless junk code, the less errors in validation the better.
- <title>, <meta>, <h1>, <h2>, <p>, and other HTML tags properly used.
- <a href="..." title="..."><img src="..." alt="..." /></a>
- template/theme consistency through the site
- good hierarchy of navigation and subnavigation which should reflect on the good organization of content
- sitemap.xml
- keep the outgoing links per page on the site the least possible.
- content/category hierarchy shouldn't go too deep (cat/subcat1/subcat2/.../subcat666)
- text content should be original/rewritten instead of fed by rss or copy/pasted
- user rememberable and seo friendly url's like food.com/pizza/carbonara.html instead of food.com/index.php?cat=1&item=2

That's it more or less for on-site stuff.

Am I missing something?

yeah the basics.

good read :thumbsup

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