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Getting found in search engines (Search engine optimisation or SEO) is one of the best ways to attract traffic to your website, but do you know what words your site is currently being found for, and are those words/phrases creating leads for you?

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be able to take some time out from the business and spend the day at Building The Perfect Council Website. It was the first time I had attended and I wasn't sure what to expect. I had already done my research and knew that Ektron, Jadu and Sitecore were among the exhibitors and thought it would give me a good opportunity to talk to them about what their products offered and to see how they stood up against Documentum Web Publisher and SilverStripe.

One of the questions we're most often asked is "What can I do to get my website onto page one of the search engines?". There are several things that you can do yourself which will help your search engine ranking and we thought we'd share 10 of them with you. These are all on our checklist when we evaluate a website and it's search engine performance before we start promoting, building links and increasing traffic. They're also the most common items that we correct in our client's websites.