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To get optimal listings in search engine and directory queries, keywords and key concepts must be placed strategically throughout your web pages. To summaries, you need these words and phrases in:

1. Title tags

2. Meta-tags (keywords and descriptions)

3. Headings (if used)

4. Body text, and

Alt-attribute in the image source tags
When online marketing professionals optimize a web site for search engine and directory queries, they should not spend most of their time redesigning the layout (in HTML) or submitting the site to the search engines. Most of their time should be spent on researching, writing good copy that will index well in search engines, and writing thorough, accurate descriptions for directory submissions. Good web copy must contain well-researched and varied keywords and key concepts based on a web page’s topic; accurately reflect the web pages’ content; and be strategically placed throughout a web page as mentioned above.

Most sales and advertising “fluff” should be eliminated.

Here’s an example (and one of our pet peeves). How many of you have seen this scam, “Put your printed brochure on the web!” Print advertising copy contains a lot of “fluff” phrases such as “service that is second to none.” Search engine analysis? “Service” is a stop word in some search engines and will be ignored in a search query. “Second to none?” How many people do you know really search using that phrase? When we are looking for something on the web, we are going to type in exactly the type of product or service we are looking for, not sales and advertising “fluff.”
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So it seems it is possible and over at http://www.omg-1.com the experiment is proving itself.

The question was ‘Can we take a banned site – No pages indexed in google, yahoo or live and can we give it life and PR rank?’

Well it took 2 days for a banned domain to enter the MSN Live and the Google Indexes. Now thats fast.

But how was it done
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