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Web site design and development process

Information gathering: Research surveys
Planning: Before you start to build a website, Content development strategy | Register domain name, Choose web hosting | Information architecture | Data model: Data type, Data flow | Documentation: Request For Proposal | Licensing
Design: CSS tools, Free fonts, Free photos, Emoji & icons
Testing & delivery: Usability test, check browser compatibility | Web testing | Speed up websites: Web Ping, Software acceptance test plan | Promote your web
Maintenance: Site backup & restore test, Software update (OS patch or CMS security update)
Need help? Community, I need inspiration, Web design glossary

how search engine discovers your website

Submit your URL to the search engines/登錄您的網址

G! Submit your content to Google(中文Google): Google Information for Webmasters (last visited: February 7, 2006)
MS: Live Search URL Submission
Yam & Hinet: 登錄網站
Y! Yahoo! Submit Your Site/Yahoo!奇摩)
Submitting a Site to The Open Directory Project

Submit the sitemap file (About Sitemaps)

G! Google Sitemaps(Documentations) - Improve the visibility of your URLs on Google ex: Google Sitemap Template for MovableType
MS: Bing™ webmaster tools - formely Live Search Webmaster Portal(Forum, Blog, FAQ)
Y! Yahoo! Site Explorer
Submit Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Ask

tell the search engine not to index ... Robots.txt

syndications

Submit the site content to the RSS Server Side Aggregator

check the indexing status

the same domain: Google search parameter site:{domain} (ex)
different domains: Backwards Links

focus on the content

post/trackback the content on the related forums/blogs

let other people link to your websites
- social bookmarking services

expand to other formats

EDM, epaper...

watch the latest trend

following the favorite searching patterns?

EN

Microsoft Bing xRank™
Google Hot Trends / Google Zeitgeist(yearly) / Google Trends
Yahoo! Buzz Index

ZH-CN

ZH-TW

Yahoo!奇摩搜尋榜 / Yahoo!奇摩站長工具: 網站榜/Blog榜
blog
- 部觀門(不關門) - 首頁 - - 關鍵字觀察
- SiteTag (「近日熱門標籤」判斷依據 = 使用SiteTag服務的blog被搜尋時，使用者使用的搜尋關鍵字)

Cross-National statistics

Google Insights for Search
Google Ad Planne: "a research and media planning tool that connects advertisers and publishers." quoted from introduction

or base on the web statistics

Google Analytics(中文)

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 == how search engine discovers your website ==
-* Submit your URL to the search engines/登錄您的網址
+Submit your URL to the search engines/登錄您的網址
-** G! [http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html Submit your content to Google]([http://www.google.com.tw/addurl/?hl=zh-TW&continue=/addurl 中文Google]):  [http://www.google.com/webmasters/index.html Google Information for Webmasters] (last visited: February 7, 2006)
+* G! [http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html Submit your content to Google]([http://www.google.com.tw/addurl/?hl=zh-TW&continue=/addurl 中文Google]):  [http://www.google.com/webmasters/index.html Google Information for Webmasters] (last visited: February 7, 2006)
-** MS: [http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WHWL Live Search URL Submission]
+* MS: [http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WHWL Live Search URL Submission]
-** Yam & Hinet: [http://reg.yam.com/register/register.asp 登錄網站]
+* Yam & Hinet: [http://reg.yam.com/register/register.asp 登錄網站]
-** Y! [http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html Yahoo! Submit Your Site]/[http://tw.search.yahoo.com/free/submit?t=&fr=fp-tab-web-t Yahoo!奇摩])
+* Y! [http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html Yahoo! Submit Your Site]/[http://tw.search.yahoo.com/free/submit?t=&fr=fp-tab-web-t Yahoo!奇摩])
+* [http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/add.html Submitting a Site to The Open Directory Project]
-* Submit the [http://www.sitemaps.org/ sitemap] file ([http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318 About Sitemaps])
+Submit the [http://www.sitemaps.org/ sitemap] file ([http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318 About Sitemaps])
-** G! [http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login Google Sitemaps]([http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8476 Documentations]) -  Improve the visibility of your URLs on Google ex: [[Google Sitemap Template for MovableType]]
+* G! [http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login Google Sitemaps]([http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8476 Documentations]) -  Improve the visibility of your URLs on Google ex: [[Google Sitemap Template for MovableType]]
-** MS: [http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/ Bing™ webmaster tools] - formely [http://webmaster.live.com/ Live Search Webmaster Portal]([http://forums.microsoft.com/webmaster/default.aspx?siteid=79 Forum], [http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/ Blog], [http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=wl_webmasters FAQ])
+* MS: [http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/ Bing™ webmaster tools] - formely [http://webmaster.live.com/ Live Search Webmaster Portal]([http://forums.microsoft.com/webmaster/default.aspx?siteid=79 Forum], [http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/ Blog], [http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=wl_webmasters FAQ])
-** Y! [https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites Yahoo! Site Explorer]
+* Y! [https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites Yahoo! Site Explorer]
+* [http://www.sitemapwriter.com/notify.php Submit Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Ask]
-* tell the search engine not to index ... [[Robots.txt]]
+tell the search engine not to index ... [[Robots.txt]]
-** [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40360 Creating a robots.txt file] or
+* [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40360 Creating a robots.txt file] or
-** [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710 Using meta tags to block access to your site]
+* [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710 Using meta tags to block access to your site]
 === syndications ===