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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes By Sharif Aly Technology makes our presence lively. So maintaining an online identity is a necessary thing in this biz-world. In this scenario, where everything has been made online, it’s essential for you to make the readers hooked up on your site. There are millions of pages that are available online and your site has to stand out from the rest. So what makes your site more unique? Is it your design; or the content which make your site attractive? Absolutely not! Of course your design should match with your prose. But beyond these aspects, there is a term called Traffic. So, how can it be done? Its quiet a meticulous thing that has to be done with at most care. To traffic a site is something tricky. This can be done in many ways. Every site owners follow their unique ways to traffic their site. The most general way which is followed by many users is Site Engine optimization. Popularly termed as “SEO optimization”. Though it’s a... 

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes By Craige Stacey Recent studies suggest that more than 80% of new visitors to any web site get there as a result of a search engine query. If this study is to believed, it certainly suggests that working to get high rankings in the search engines might be the most effective thing you can do to bring traffic to your site. The following 12 design tips will help you get started in optimizing your site’s search engine placement. 1. Design for Specific Search Engines – there are hundreds of different search engines, but for best results you should design your site to take full advantage of the search criteria of the big three – Yahoo, Google and MSN. If you can get high rankings in these three, you won’t need to worry about the other search engines. Knowing how these search engines rank sites (as well as why they will penalize a site) is important. The rules change often, but the tips below are the most current. 2. Know your target audience....