SEO Rules Revieled

Here is your SEO tip 4:


Are your links visible to a search engine spider?

A lot of Content and Links displayed on a webpage may not actually
be visible to the Search Engines, eg. Flash based content,
content generated through javascript,  content displayed as
images etc.

Try this tool which Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the
contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it.

http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

Although some search engines can parse Java script right now, there
are none that can really read it and make sense of it. By reducing
the use of Java script on your page it will allow your content to
move higher on the page where the search engine robots can crawl it
easier.

BONUS TIP:
Here is a free tool allows you to determine the percentage of
similarity between any two pages online.
http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php

The one place where some duplication is permitted, is when you
work with genuine news stories. Real world news is 100% white hat
and search engines understand that some content like news - is
meant to be syndicated across the Web.