Designing a Web Site that is
Search Engine Friendly 

Most successful business online all have this one thing in common - Making search engine optimization work for their sites.

The first step to making your site and business SEO friendly is to make the search engines want to come to your web site.

Web crawlers are computer programs that the search engines use to collect data and index information from the websites. This information is used to determine the ranking of a web pages.

One thing that most certainly will hinder the efforts of a Web Crawler is the use of Frames.  Most search engines have crawlers that can't penetrate the frames, if they can't get into a web page to read it then that web page remains unindexed and unranked. Before submitting your website to a search engine do some research and find out if they have a crawler that is incapable of penetrating any frames.

Once you have finished your website it is time to start submitting your website to search engines. Some webmasters like to use an automated search engine submission service. If you decide to go with the submission service you should be aware that there maybe a fee involved.

Other webmasters like to avoid big fees by submitting their website to individual search engine on their own.

Once your web page is submitted to a search engine you need to sit down and design a crawler page. A crawler page is a web page that contains nothing else expect links to every single page of your website, Use the title of each page as the as the link text. This will also give you some extra keywords that will help improve the ranking the crawlers assign to your website. Think of the crawler page as a site map to the rest of your website.

If you design your site in a program like XSitePro, then your site map is automatically created for you.

Don't panic if your web pages don't instantly appear to be indexed.  There are a lot of websites and web pages to be crawled and it may take from a few days to a few weeks to get your entire site indexed.