SEO tips

[anders08]

i find these techniques interesting. has anyone tried using some of techniques mentioned below?:rolleyes:


1. place keyword in < h1> tag in very top of the page

2. place keyword phases as the first word in < title> only, and contain no more than 3 keywords

3. On your webpage, set your first graphic with ALT set to your target keyword

4. build a text based sitemap, add ALT if it is an image

5. OPML / RSS site map

6. bold or underline keyword (1 or 2 times only)

7. The key word/phrase should be used again very near the end of the page.

8. try to register a good domain name with keyword (I guess keyword in subdirectory is ok)

9. navigation menu on the right, since googlebot looks from top and left

[naix77]

Yeah. All these are quite successful, but don't forget that the more quality sites link to your website the better you score.

[anders08]

so great sites who link back to me has a major score? even if it's not related to the site?

[naix77]

Quality means related and with good traffic. But, even unrelated sites help out, though not as much. google.com is analyzing the content of these websites so you can't really fool them.

[anders08]

thanks naix77 for that helpful info! ;)

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

Al those things are great, I use most of them and jumped 900 spots on msn in 3 days

[Javier Jimenez]

Don´t forget the keywords density in your webpages. Someone or other say a 3% of your content needs to be keywords.

[jlryan]

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navigation menu on the right, since googlebot looks from top and left
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Why would you put the navigation menu on the right if the Googlebot looks from top and left? Doesn't it make more sense to put the navigation menu on the left since Googlebot looks from top to left?

Just curious.

[HHI Golf Guy]

Most of those tips are outdated - especially for Google. While they may work for segments without a lot of competition, they won't help much in competitive segments.

Also, it is getting much tougher to get new sites to rank well. Older sites that rank well and have a high degree of TrustRank play by a different set of rules than new, unestablished web sites.

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

i wonder where i can go and buy an older doamin

[jlryan]

GoDaddy has an entire system devoted to selling old domains, and you can get an rss feed of the domains as they become available. The only downside is that you are not guaranteed the name when you buy it because the first owner still has rights to it for some time.

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

what is the cost, and how oftern do you get the domain. Who this help with trust rank.

[HHI Golf Guy]

i wonder where i can go and buy an older doamin

Older domains are only a small part of the equation. It is the Trust that a particular domain has built over the years that play a large role in the Google algorithm.

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

yeah i understand that. My fort worth site is optimized to the teeth. what can i do with the new sites i am building and this one to gain trust rank. Please i need tips

[HHI Golf Guy]

yeah i understand that. My fort worth site is optimized to the teeth. what can i do with the new sites i am building and this one to gain trust rank. Please i need tips

I'm sorry, but because I run an SEO firm I do not provide site specific advice.

What I can tell you is that most links do not provide any benefit your web site. Yes - you read that correctly. Sites should concentrate on building links from sites with a high degree of authority or trust. Read everything you can on Google TrustRank, and then begin forming opinions and strategies.

You can also read this forum for some of my threads on the evolution of link building.

Study your supplemental pages and find out why Google considers them not worthy for their regular index. Don't fall for the "Content is King" mantra. Only good, diverse, unique content is King. The rest is wasted space (that's why it's in the Supplemental Index!).

Mass pages of content are only good if they help support the primary themes of your web site.

[spanishproperty]

Most of those tips are outdated - especially for Google. While they may work for segments without a lot of competition, they won't help much in competitive segments.

Also, it is getting much tougher to get new sites to rank well. Older sites that rank well and have a high degree of TrustRank play by a different set of rules than new, unestablished web sites.

Totally agree with you, you have got to look at the long term goal of your site.

Google results that I have with my sites take snippets of the content text, hardly ever uses my Meta descriptions and what you said about new sites, it is incredibly more differcult for new sites to achieve the same kind of results as an older domain.

What I have found with 2 of the domains that I have is, find 10 keyword phrases that have very very low domain results in google. Go all out promoting on these 10 keyword phrases, knowing that you have a good chance of being number and then once you are top for those searches, spread it further afield and you will see better results in google.

[axemedia]

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navigation menu on the right, since googlebot looks from top and left
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Why would you put the navigation menu on the right if the Googlebot looks from top and left? Doesn't it make more sense to put the navigation menu on the left since Googlebot looks from top to left?

Just curious.
This way Google reads your content first. But this can be achieved a number of ways. With CSS, or even tricky table coding, you can place the nav on the left while in your source code it comes after the main body of content, as though it was on the right.


Google does not read from top and left as stated above. They read your source code from top to bottom. You should set the coding up so your content comes first, then navigation menu content/links after, and footer content/links, so it gets to see your keyword rich content nearer the top of the page.

But its a minor issue.

[www.OxfordTopAgent.com]

i just recently changed my keywords and content. I had OK ranking before that but I want better ranking so I changed keywords and content. Does this mean I basically start all the way back over for Google and Yahoo etc?

[tarheit]

@oxfordtopagent.com: I think the biggest problem with your site is the frames. If you check out which pages are index in google (search for 'site:url of your site') you'll find maily the part inside the frame is indexed. Searches there will only find the interior part of the page with no menu/navigation. (Check google's cache to see how it's seeing your pages). Plus since your homepage is just a holder for frames with keywords only (no content), it's not bound to rank well. (In fact it shows up blank in google's cache)

Remember, content is more important than keywords in the hidden meta tags any day.

You can also use googles webmaster tools to see how your site looks (search for 'google webmasters')

-Tim

[Monkeyleg]

I construct my sites using <div> tags. That enables me to get the "meat" of the site at the top of the source code, and put all of the extras down below.

I think people have become accustomed to seeing navigation links at the top of the page, or on the left side. The right side just seems weird to me.