Layout ?

I`ve seen people leave a page just because it does feel good on our eyes, not everyone looks for content, some may be browsing just for fun but still you can`t afford to miss them. Some visiters even have a feeling that only people with good content can come up with a cool site . And I do suggest you to have a fun, games page or something with light content on you site.

PHP and Google
Google hate`s php ?
Can`t say … but google does not list php files of every site . That is If you have a url ending with blah.php?topic=1&view=23 then google will only list the one blah.php file . SO you need to make it a HTML page or user mod rewrite in CMS.

  • Mod Rewrite is something that is done to make .php extention files show as .html extention before it is shown to user . It is popular among CMS like PHPnuke, Drupal , Mambo etc. It can be done for our own PHP pages too, all we have to do is edit .htaccess file to make it that way.

Hosting & Domains
Always choose host based on its reliability, good customer service and good uptime. Check if it has enough speed and no downtime. Downtime can lead your site to heavy loss as it might be the time a customer comes or the search engine crawls. You can monitor your site from uptime checkers like uppanel etc.
When you buy domains buy something related to what your going to buy like it`s a bit odd when you have your name in domain and have a hosting site.

Heading

For an professional look you need your webpage content to be seperated, while writing an article use <h> tag for headings. Search engine spiders identifies this as an topic of the given article.
Not only that it is good for search engine`s , users will find the pages easy to navigate through. If you find the <h> tag a bit odd for your design , then use CSS to change the look . Search engine spiders don`t take CSS while crawling, So you can fake it to look like the default.

Keywords
Keywords are very essential no matter what your website relates to. One can say that it`s all matter of keywords that brings visitors to a website. Usually it`s hard to say what keyword a user might search , but still you guess a bit . There is a Keyword Selector Tool from Overture which tells the highest search realted to the keyword, this tool helps a lot in making a SE friendly website.
Another is from Google : Google AdWords Keyword Tool helps you make out possible keywords for your site , it`s actually same as overtures from Yahoo

Precautions

  • Never Link to a page which is banned from search engine`s
  • Don`t host your pages on a unreliable host. Hence try to get history of a web host before buying space . Check if your host is not banned.
  • Never link to a site which host warez, copyrighted materials ,anything that is against the law or which have chance to get banned. Incomming links from them can`t do any harm though.
  • Check for errors in metatags like description
  • Have a robots.txt file

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