With all the buzz going on about Search Engine Optimization, very few people consider that in order to actually optimize a site for search engines the site needs to be search engine compliant and free from penalizing factors.

Whether you’re creating a site from scratch or want to make sure your site gets the ranking it deserves, here’s a basic search engine compliance checklist which will help you get started.

Google is particularly interested in separating mobile content from normal web content in order to help mobile users find relevant content for their context in the Google Mobile Web Search.  With help from Google Webmaster Tools you can make your mobile content available in Google Mobile Web Search. Here’s how you do it.