SEO tips?
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Just get as many links to your site as possible.
DON'T spam other peoples websites. Sure, put a link in your sig and join lotsa sites, but DON'T just post about your website. That behaviour would most likely get you banned and the links deleted.
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Depends, there is no one answer that works for all web sites. Often overlooked in the Google help files is the phrase "Interesting & Relevent content" .
The Cybrax website for instance reached the number one position in four weeks using any one of several search terms without a single backlink because there was nobody else doing PC repair and web workin the same town. That's the relevant bit in action.
If on the other hand your content is more common.. say clipart then yes you are going to need back links and lots of them before the search engines see that you are popular and take notice. The quality of the link is also important.
Signature tags for instance are a common site in forums but better still are back links added by somebody else such as the webmaster of another site in their links are like gold as these represent a more genuine seal of approval for your content. What makes another site link to yours, well that's the interesting content bit.
With so much plagerism (copying somebody elses work and passing it off as yours) across the web unique content is rare, if you have it then the search engines will reward you.
The Cybrax website for instance reached the number one position in four weeks using any one of several search terms without a single backlink because there was nobody else doing PC repair and web workin the same town. That's the relevant bit in action.
If on the other hand your content is more common.. say clipart then yes you are going to need back links and lots of them before the search engines see that you are popular and take notice. The quality of the link is also important.
Signature tags for instance are a common site in forums but better still are back links added by somebody else such as the webmaster of another site in their links are like gold as these represent a more genuine seal of approval for your content. What makes another site link to yours, well that's the interesting content bit.
With so much plagerism (copying somebody elses work and passing it off as yours) across the web unique content is rare, if you have it then the search engines will reward you.
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Try making an SEO Friendly website with H1 tags, a good meta description, and lots of interesting content.
Here is a very useful SEO Analysis Tool giving you a detailed report on how SEO friendly your site is: http://www.pineberry.com/en/skills/seo/analysis-tool
And be sure to practice White Hat SEO, not Black Hat SEO. Do not participate in link farms or anything like that. Link exchange only with sites that have relevant content (like a tech site link exchanging with another tech site).
Here is a very useful SEO Analysis Tool giving you a detailed report on how SEO friendly your site is: http://www.pineberry.com/en/skills/seo/analysis-tool
And be sure to practice White Hat SEO, not Black Hat SEO. Do not participate in link farms or anything like that. Link exchange only with sites that have relevant content (like a tech site link exchanging with another tech site).
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I have similar experience to Cybrax in that I have very few backlinks on any of my websites, (there are some unsolicited backlinks), yet my websites consistently show very near or at the top of Google search when relevant search words and phrases are entered. Without going into a lot of detail, this is because of relevant, (in some cases unique), content. With so many websites about so many subjects available on the Internet, interesting, relevant or unique content can be a very challenging goal so, as mentioned by others, good quality links and meta tags are something to concentrate on for SEO.
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They are actually detrimental to your position in Google's search results, be careful when submitting your URL to mass URL databases.
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additionally, you may want to register at
http://www.google.com/webmasters
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
http://www.bing.com/webmaster
http://www.google.com/webmasters
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
http://www.bing.com/webmaster
Useful titles
Meta data (including keywords AND description)
Standard page hierarchy (h1, h2, h3, etc. all consistent)
Pages link to other pages
Pages from other websites links to your pages
Though I don't know what SEO has to do with graphics and website designs.
Meta data (including keywords AND description)
Standard page hierarchy (h1, h2, h3, etc. all consistent)
Pages link to other pages
Pages from other websites links to your pages
Though I don't know what SEO has to do with graphics and website designs.
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Google SEO.. distilled tips
Content, Content and more Content.... or to be precise interesting and relevent content preferably not copied [or scraped] from elsewhere.
If your designing a site for a client they can often be the biggest obstacle to SEO, sometimes getting them to provide even basic content can be a struggle. [ Tales of website clients woes coming soon]
Stay well away from any automated site submission freeware
Ignore completely anybody who claims to understand the Google Search system or who says they can garauntee the top ranking slot in under a month.. The inner workings of the google search engine are a company secret and subject to change without warning. It's all gueswork at best.
Image heavy designers beware... page loading times are now be factored into the ranking soup
Multilingual Support... details sketchy on this but it would seem logical that it would broaden the appeal to more visitors
Accessability features.. the ability to change font size and colours for instance or text to speech reader compatability are also supposed to be looked upon favourably. There are also moves afoot to make this a legal requirement for commercial sites.
Meta / Description Tags... Google is also known to read the page text content and compares this against the meta inforation
Things that annoy google.... the list is extensive so here are a few classics
concealed text eg: white on white, unusually small iframes 1px square, requesting daily visits of the google indexing bot for static pages such as the T&C, About, etc, images without ALT/Title tags, RSS feeds that never change
Content, Content and more Content.... or to be precise interesting and relevent content preferably not copied [or scraped] from elsewhere.
If your designing a site for a client they can often be the biggest obstacle to SEO, sometimes getting them to provide even basic content can be a struggle. [ Tales of website clients woes coming soon]
Stay well away from any automated site submission freeware
Ignore completely anybody who claims to understand the Google Search system or who says they can garauntee the top ranking slot in under a month.. The inner workings of the google search engine are a company secret and subject to change without warning. It's all gueswork at best.
Image heavy designers beware... page loading times are now be factored into the ranking soup
Multilingual Support... details sketchy on this but it would seem logical that it would broaden the appeal to more visitors
Accessability features.. the ability to change font size and colours for instance or text to speech reader compatability are also supposed to be looked upon favourably. There are also moves afoot to make this a legal requirement for commercial sites.
Meta / Description Tags... Google is also known to read the page text content and compares this against the meta inforation
Things that annoy google.... the list is extensive so here are a few classics
concealed text eg: white on white, unusually small iframes 1px square, requesting daily visits of the google indexing bot for static pages such as the T&C, About, etc, images without ALT/Title tags, RSS feeds that never change
There is no short cut route to success when it comes to get high rank in Google. The best thing that you can do is to get as many good links from different domains as possible and you will be able to ensure a good ranking sooner or later.