Atlantis, the Island of Atlas, is the name of a legendary island first mentioned in Plato’s dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias”.  Plato said Atlantis was “beyond the pillars of Heracles” and was a naval power that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9500 BC.

After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean “in a single day and night of misfortune”.  The civilization of Atlantis left it’s mark on many ancient civilizations - Greece, Egypt, Crete, Phoenecia, Chaldea and others.

Atlantis has been credited with many incredible technologies that are not fully understood - amongst them a magnetic application of gravity to power ships, and clairvoyance.  Vestiges of Atlantis’ knowledge is found in many ancient civilizations.  One of the most startling discoveries was a pair of columns in ancient Egypt that could not be fully translated.  The Egyptian hieroglyphics named Atlantis and gave information about the lost continent, but the Atlantean glyphs remained uncipherable until I compared those markings with the account of an ancient seer’s scroll found in Ephesus some 3000 years ago.

The translation was a startling account of the future that contained a list of “10 ways to get search engines to pay attention to your website.”  Needless to say, I will wait for no authorization to give that list here to you now Superbloggers!

1 - May the sons of your sons always optimize for keyword content.

2 - Let each title tag be written with a unique title.

3 - Write quality content into every Meta tag.

4 - Content is ever the king and always the king.

5 - Be ye wise in writing image alt text.

6 - You will create a Robots.txt file as a map of your web site.

7 - You will create a Sitemap.xml file to tell engines of all sections and pages of your website.

8 - Let there be no duplicate content from one page unto another.

9 -  Create custom error pages that look like the rest of your site and keep search engine robots from reaching a dead end in your site and leaving.

10 - Make sure that your website is fully validated for well-formed HTML.

Although this was just one bit of the Atlantean technology in the glyphs, Uncle Arthur is proud to bring it to you first.

“When Content Was King”
Uncle Arthur “of the Ancients” Browning