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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - optimise search for your readers

November 3rd, 2008 Posted by Laura Oliver in Online Journalism, Search, Top tips for journalists

Search: the first rule of optimising your news site for search engines is: think of your readers, not the engines. What are they searching for and what words and tools are they using to do it? The Knight Citizen News Network has more tips on SEO here. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

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