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Subject: Search Engine Optimization
Category: Business and Money > eCommerce
Asked by: sfassett-ga
List Price: $8.00
Posted: 21 Jan 2005 07:56 PST
Expires: 20 Feb 2005 07:56 PST
Question ID: 461018
What is the most beneficial practice I can do to help my website pages
to rank well in any search engine (e.g. keyword content, descriptions,
title tags)?  So, otherwise written, what is the most important thing
I should focus on if anything?
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Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization
From: shabbirbhimani-ga on 21 Jan 2005 20:44 PST
 
The best practice to rank well your pages in Search engines is
content. If you have good content many people will link to it and many
Search engines and specially google gives more importance to google.

Yahoo and MSN are not that difficult to crack and putting some tags in
Hx and using the title properly can rank you on top page fairly easily
but as google is more of backlink driven it can rank you higher if you
have more Anchor text in backlinks with keywords concerned.

Now you have a question as what you should focus more on while you
would like to rank well in Search engines.

I would suggest following these steps has helped me a lot and I am
sure it will help you too.

1. Start getting the content for the site. If your site is not much of
content based site use a second site with similar in nature to get the
content and linking from that site to sales site can have a very good
bonus.

2. Concentrate on getting the title of each page and very targeted and
have a good navigatio structure so that bots can find the contents of
each page as and when they are on your site.

3. Just dont try to rank the homepage by making it Search engine
friendly byt also take time to get the links to some internal pages as
well as the homepage because the Search engines ranks pages and not
sites.

4. Try to leak the PR as little as possible and so always pointing to
the homepage from every page is beneficial and so always have the
navigation structure in that fashion.

5. Last but not the least leave a reason for the visitors to come back
to your site because its not all about having them there but its about
making them regular. For this you need the fresh content and which is
also liked by the bots.

Thanks
Shabbir Bhimani
Subject: Search Engine Optimization Forum
From: dsadkhin-ga on 10 Feb 2005 23:46 PST
 
Try:

http://www.getpromoted.com

It is a great resource for webmasters. This forum is dedicated to
Search Engine Optimization only.
Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization
From: jrozsa-ga on 09 Mar 2005 19:32 PST
 
There is some excellent software called WebCEO that I use which will
analyze your page and tell you what the major SE's would think about
it. I think you can get a free trial from their site, although I can't
remember what that is right now. Search for the name on Google and you
will find it. A good example of a well built, highly optimized site is
http://housepaintingestimates.com. Studying this page, you will see an
excellent domain name for the specified keywords (very important), an
excellent title using the desired keywords (also very important), META
tags for those SE's that still look for it (it can't hurt to have
them, but can hurt not to), terrific use of header tags, which many
SE's use to "read" and relate the important parts of your page. And
finally content, which above anything else, is very important for your
site to have. This site has all of those ingredients and ranks very
highly in Yahoo and MSN. I use this site as a "how to" for my students
when looking at SEO.
Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization
From: gprialde-ga on 10 Mar 2005 05:52 PST
 
Hello sfassett,

Consider reading this article entitled "Optimizing your Website"
http://www.isnare.com/?id=39&ca=Finances this might help you a lot.

Glenn
Subject: Re: Search Engine Optimization
From: utmac-ga on 27 Apr 2005 18:31 PDT
 
Content on your site is king, but links from other sites to yours is
definitely queen.

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