Search Engine Help

7Day Theory

What can i do to get my site high in any specific but popular engine.

Any tips and techniques such as meta (whats?) etc etc.


Any advise appreciated.

Pablo

start with proper meta tags

use alt tags for all your pics

don't have any broken links.

use proper names for your links like if it a link to an article on fish have a link like

http://www.your-domain.com/fish.html
http://www.your-domain.com/fish/

that should keep you busy for a while.

7Day Theory

Could you define what are "proper" tags please.

Pablo

Originally posted by 7Day Theory
Could you define what are "proper" tags please.

http://www.w3.org/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/ReportOutcomes/Spidering.txt

proper being accurate , exact and useful.

http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags_part2.html
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags_part3.html

7Day Theory

Thanks.

yellum

Get yourself in google and get yourself in the dmoz.org directory. You really don't need to give a damn about the rest at this stage. Googles taking over.

Google isn't big into metatags though. Will look for some links and post them here.

7Day Theory

How does one do the above yellum?
Is their donkey work involved or hit /miss and hit and hope.

yellum

Have a look at this site:

http://www.rankwrite.com/

Go through their archives here:

http://www.rankwrite.com/archives.htm

Read these: http://www.rankwrite.com/archives/issue075.htm#writing

http://www.rankwrite.com/archives/issue074.htm#seo

http://www.rankwrite.com/archives/issue070.htm#seo

And look at this case study they did here:

http://www.rankwrite.com/archives/issue067.htm#seo


Also:
http://www.rankwrite.com/writingkeyphrases.htm

http://www.rankwrite.com/makingkeyphraseswork.htm


All the above links should give you a good idea how it works and what you need to do. Also try and get as many people to link to you and try to get those that link to you to have your keyphrase in the linking text.

Google will also rank you higher if you update the website frequently. Just make some minor changes to the main page every few days, nothing that will confuse regular visitors. Just some text changes should do I would think.

Also a neat trick to get an extra few people to the site is to use mispellings in the meta tags and you'll get those that mistyped a phrase too. It frequently happens but most sites don't cater for it.

yellum

Heh, further to the above have a look here:

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/directories.html

and Here:

http://www.jimtools.com/

jmcc

Originally posted by yellum
Get yourself in google and get yourself in the dmoz.org directory. You really don't need to give a damn about the rest at this stage. Googles taking over.

Google isn't big into metatags though. Will look for some links and post them here.

The Dmoz, as yellum points out, is one of the best ways of getting picked up by other search engines. Google uses the Dmoz dataset as fodder and I think updates once a month from Dmoz. Dmoz itself updates continually though the datafiles are only published at the end of each week. (I'm going to be adding an Open Directory to the IrishWebPages.com site based partially on the Dmoz data and also on the WhoisIreland.com data.) Google also supplies the data for Yahoo's searches so by getting into Google, you also make it some of the way to the Yahoo audience.

Another search engine to try and get spidered by is alltheweb.com (fast.no). It is in the same league as Google. Altavista has also started to spend more time actively spidering sites.

I would advise against wasting money on Doras (bit of a dead end directory really as people now tend to navigate more by search engine than directory) or indeed on registering with Yahoo for their express inclusion option.

I think Google and some of the other search engines will have instructions on how to get listed and what to optimise on your site:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/
http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Also if you have a .ie domain and website, it will be listed on WhoisIreland.com. Google and most of the main search engines index all the domain pages (which have links back to the individual domain's websites) each month so it will probably get trawled by these search engines as a result of being listed there.

Regards...jmcc

manonthemoon

These are 2 best as far as i know

www.searchengineforums.com

www.gethighforums.com

glengara

If you can rank well with Google, you'll do well with most other SEs.

Ranking in G depends on Content, Links, Title and Description, roughly in that order of importance.

If you go to http://www.diy-seo.com you'll find links to tutorials, newsletters, forums and other SEO resources.

Choosing the proper keyphrase to target is vital, check what the most popular search terms are by using the Wordtracker and Overture keyword tools, found in the resources/tools page.

Ranking can be a slow process, patience here is definitely a virtue!