Have you been stressing about how to get your site to appear higher in the search results on Google, Yahoo!, or other popular search engines? Does your website keep attracting dud hits from people who looked up completely irrelevant keywords?

Look no further. Here at 3to1 we code our sites so that "robots" (like GoogleBot) will have a field day with them, and in turn list them higher in the results.

We adhere to Google's webmaster guidelines, which also helps in getting your site visible. And no, we don't put those big blocks of nonsense keywords at the footer of your site to "trick" the search engines; nor do we use any of the other frowned-upon tactics that most other web design companies use, which could get you blacklisted from Google.

Quoted from Googles Webmaster Guidelines

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don't use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don't send automated queries to Google.
• Don't load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don't create pages that install viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

And if you are blacklisted from Google, you're pretty much up a creek.

We have scoured the internet and have found the best tools to help you determine if your current site is "optimized" for search engines.

• The SEO Tools at Sitening are very complete and robust and are worth checking out. (Yes, we know they are a company that specializes in SEO, but hey, we scored 100/100 on their test so we must be doing something right. Plus we make killer movies and graphics to boot.)
• Check your Alexa rank and see how your site's traffic stacks up against the rest of the internet.
• Whats your Google PageRank? Google rates sites for SEO on a scale of 1 to 10. The average score is around 4-6.

So let 3to1 cover all your SEO bases. We handle XML sitemaps, meta-tags, keywords, page titles, clean URL's, 301 redirects, robots.txt files, XHTML and CSS validation, and more!