As such, a web host can not help to improve the rankings. Search Engines will not rank you higher because your site is hosted on a particular web host (means buying hosting from Yahoo does not means your site will rank well in Yahoo) but yes if you choose a web host that remains down [...]

DMOZ (www.dmoz.org) has the ability to frustrate webmasters with its opaque site selection process. Though the guidelines are clear and fair, the actual implementation is not.
The only 3 things you can do to possibly get into DMOZ faster are:
1) Follow all the editorial guidelines
2) Choose the right subcategory
3) Submit a meaningful site.
Despite following all 3 [...]

A linkfarm is any type of website in which there is no real content, service, or purpose, but rather just a load of non-related reciprical links to other places. Generally linkfarms are built to increase search engine rankings and turn a profit, which means they’re also generally littered with advertisements from affiliate programs the site [...]

The best way to get more links to your site is through hard work.
In order to find sites that are relevant to yours and allow you to post a link on, you can perform the following searches:
Replace the keyword with the phrase you are targeting.
keyword “add url”
keyword “add site”
keyword “submit site”
keyword “submit url”
If you perform [...]

One big way in which search engines are granting importance to web pages are based on how many other sites are linking to it.
PageRank is a system implemented by Google that measures web page’s importance with only taking into account the links and links related factors. The other big search engines (Yahoo, MSN) probably have [...]

This is a dilema that webmasters have faced more and more as there are fewer prime domains to choose from. There is a difference between the optimal domain name and the one you have to settle for. In general, if you are picking a domain for SEO purposes, it should contain the keywords you are [...]

A very important point to remember is that always link to your main pages from your home page and if possible from other pages as well.
If you have a link from your home page to another page of yours then you are telling the search engine that this page is also important and needs to [...]

Page cloaking is a BIG one, which basically consists of using server side scripts to determine whether the visitor is a search engine or a human and serving up different pages depending. The script would serve up a keyword rich, totally souped up page to search robots, while giving humans an entirely different page.
Linkfarms are [...]

The title is most probably the single most important place to put your keyword.
Have the word in the beginning of the title and also in the end. Try to vary it in different forms as well.
If you want to brand your company name you should keep that name in the end.
Try to follow this and [...]

We all know it is not enough to have your keyword in the meta keyword tag.
Here is a list of places to put it in the source code, ordered by estimated weight:

Title tag.
H1 and H2.
In paragraphs and general text on the site.
In STRONG tags: <STRONG>Keyword</STRONG>
In the file names of the web document: www.domain.com/keyword.html
ALT description attributes [...]