Webcomics Marketing Strategies : SEO

SEO or "Search Engine Optimization"
Part of a 13 part series: Exploring Webcomics Marketing Strategies

During my research exploring webcomics marketing strategies I discovered a lot can be found on search engine optimization. This makes sense since there are billions of pages competing for users. SEOs or 'Search Engine Optimizers" are businesses that offer better page ranking using a variety of techniques:

• Computer aided submission to 1000's of search engines
• Extra sites used to forward the user to your domain
• fooling the search engines

However, as you can see most of it is just spam and businesses that blow smoke. They really just take your money or get you banned from search engines or even both. Be careful what you do.

The good thing is my research got me a lot of good resources for good SEO I can share...

1. Pandia: Get your SEO Basic training here
2. Wiki: They have an article for more basics
3. Search Engine Optimization --- An Overview
4. Google's advice on SEO
   
5. Linkage!: SearchGuild.com has a huge listing of great SEO advice including...
• 11 Deadly Sins Of Search Engine Optimization
• Ten Steps To A Well Optimized Website - Step 7: Website Submissions
• Working with the robots.txt file
• The 10 steps to get into the SEO '“Hall of Shame'

Lastly, here is one of the major search results that got me all the info...