There is little web developers can do to get high rankings in search engines because most rankings are because of backlinks to your site, however we can better the possibility by utilizing fundamental rules that make more pages of your website indexed.

We develop in a framework called CakePHP.  It is getting very popular in the web development world.  However, CakePHP is simply what it is set out to be which is a framework and not a CMS or anything of that nature.  It is a framework that gives you a structured way to develop web applications and gives you handy tools to speed up the process.

Because of this, there is of course no SEO features built into its core.  However, with the number of SEO companies that are pushing our clients to implementing very important “SEO-Friendly” items, we have set out to make this a feature that is with every CakePHP application we develop.
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Being more of a developer myself, moving into doing more xhtml/css has been a strange yet fun adventure.  Learning everything about styling elements to building layouts was not my thing.  I still have trouble building layouts.  I’m not a designer nor understand the ins and outs of all browsers and hacks/methods to getting around those issues.

As a developer, you always think to work off frameworks or libraries.  For example, we use the CakePHP framework and we have written numerous of libraries to speed up development.  No sense in re-inventing the wheel.   Well, why can’t this be the same with CSS?  It sort of can.

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