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Speeding up web site loading
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* http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

robots.txt
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To exclude all robots from the entire server::

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /

To exclude all robots from part of the server::

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /cgi-bin/
  Disallow: /tmp/
  Disallow: /junk/

To allow a single robot::

  User-agent: Google
  Disallow:

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /

To allow all robots complete access::

  User-agent: *
  Disallow:

See:

http://www.robotstxt.org/
  Page provides description for robots.txt usual practice and discussion about
  possible standardization efforts.
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
  About /robots.txt
http://www.robotstxt.org/faq.html
  Frequently Asked Questions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
  Wikipedia article on robots.txt.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improving-on-robots-exclusion-protocol.html
  Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol.

Sitemap
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Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a
website that are available for crawling.

http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
  Sitemap protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps
  Wikipedia article.

Web document structure useage
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http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama/
  Metadata Analysis and Mining Application

Validation
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* http://validator.w3.org/

Add search to your site
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http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/
  Custom Search Help
http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/search/basics/basics-13.html
  Can I add a Yahoo! Search box to my site?

Check websites for broken links
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http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/
  linkchecker home page.
http://arthurdejong.org/webcheck/
  webcheck home page.