tips from Google for creating crawlable sites

Straight from the horse's mouth (the horse in this case being Google) is this excellent list of webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites.  If you want search engines to find your site's content and index it accurately, listen to what T.V. Raman (Google Research Scientist) is saying.  Their four basic tips are as follows:

• Ensure that all critical content is reachable
• Ensure that content is readable
• Ensure that content is available in reading order
• Supplement all visual content--don't be afraid of redundancy!

It's amazing what people forget as they get caught up in fancy new designs or features.  Back to basics, baby!  There is a lot to think about when designing a web page, but remember that if that wonderful content isn't found, it won't get used--fancy schmancy or not.