Asp.net search engine optimization -part1: Introduction

You will need first to read some basic SEO overview form here

Making a searching engines friendly website is a must for any asp.net developer who want to make a professional money making website .searching engines if treated properly and put in mind through the phases of website creation can drive huge, free and continuous traffic to your website (some studies say “ about 70% of internet traffic is delivered via searching engines”).

In these series of articles I will illustrate an easy step by step plan that will help a beginner asp.net developer to deliver a Search engine optimization friendly website with very little and simple asp.net code .This plan should be enough for small websites but large enterprise websites will need a much more sophisticated techniques so this articles is targeted to beginner asp.net developers .Higher level developers can find a useful trick here or there but the main audience I target here is beginners and medium level asp.net developers.

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What you need to know??

1-basic knowledge of asp.net vb , or asp.net c# (I am not comfortable enough with c# so I will use online tool that can transfer vb.net to c# till I find some c# guy translate it in a good way).

2-basic knowledge of search engine optimization in general: although we will discuss search engine optimization general rules in brief

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we will not dive deep in this issue because our main concern here in this articles is the asp.net code customization to fulfill search engine optimization requirement but not search engine optimization itself (may be I will prepare another series of articles to explain what I know about search engine optimization).

Equipments:

Visual web developer (VWD) 2005 or 2008 or visual studio( VS ) 2005 or 2008 express or any other paid version.(You can download vwd 2008 express edition free from here ).

*I used vwd 2008 express edition to write the code in this articles but it should apply for any version of the above.

Asp.net search engine optimization technique for small websites broad lines:

First read general seo tips to get general idea about seo

1-setting asp.net page meta tags ( description and keywords tags),page title dynamically based on values from data base,data bound controls or any other string value .

2-adjusting site navigation system to expose every page to searching engines spiders. Also examine and customize the default asp.net paging functionality of the data controls like gridview ,datalist ,listview and repeater.

3-Overview of some advanced techniques.

come after 2 days to read the first article in the series and start play.

DR Ahmed Galal

Egyptian ASP.NET developer

dr.agalal@speakasp.net