Tips for SEO

[Dave A]

I understand they take time to produce results but in my case there must be something I am not doing right.

That has to be the most ad intensive "content" website I've visited ever. How many ad programs have you got running there? I spotted Adsense, Adbrite, LinkAds (or something along those lines), a pop up which my browser blocked, a pop under which my browser didn't block for some reason, + some affiiate ads...

on one page!!!

I struggled to find the content. I did find some message spam - same profile posting the same message over and over.

Now seriously, why would you recommend a person go to that website?

And that's the way you have to think about search engines. If a human wouldn't recommend the site... well, the major search engines are trying their best to evaluate sites and pages to recommend in much the same way.

You need to ask yourself - why have I got this website? If it's to generate maximum ad and affiliate income, the content needs to be quality, tight, in line with the domain name if possible and the ads need to be relevant. And forget building a community based social media website - it doesn't produce a high eCPM. Rather write a page a day or a page a week on something targetted, useful and has a healthy search volume. You'll make more money.

If you're genuinely trying to build a community based website, lose at least 75% of the ads.

[Thembadl]

Thank you Dave for your comments. Yes that is all true such that I don't even know where pop-ups are coming from. I understand you clearly, I guess that is as far as I can go because in both approaches you have suggested content will have to be adjusted. I would like to follow community based approach.

[bellevue limo]

Backlinks, backlinks, backlinks! lol. These are a +1 vote to your site/URL for every link you have which means Google thinks your link is worth more.

Of course you want fresh, newly updated content. Google loves new content and even has a specific search for it. Add content as often as possible!

Submit your content to bookmarking sites but you probably already know this since you are a seasoned Webmaster/SEOer.

Deep Linking is critical. Most webmasters don't get this but naturally a website gets deep links to the URLs of content, not to the homepage. You need to make linkbacks to the content in your site.

SEO Friendly URLs are critical to high ranking.

You need the keywords/phrases in your title in order to rank high. Make sure they are part of your title!

[Thembadl]

Thank you Limo, I try backlinks as much as possible. With links, would you recommend buying links?
Title and keywords, I am sure you don't mean loading tittle with keywords? Would you regard this as sufficient: "Free Career and Entrepreneurial Opportunities"?

[Nienke]

Being new in the online business and therefore new in SEO, I’m extremely confused on what the best way is to deal with this.

There are so many tips and tricks out there, but also the same amount of information claiming that all this doesn’t work. We can see that in this thread already!

What it looks like to me is that you’ll only be able optimize your SEO when you make it your fulltime job. If you, like me, actually want to run a company as well, this is not really an option.

So I’m thinking about outsourcing my SEO. Are there any tips and advice about this? Is this a good idea and if so, how to deal with this? And if not, why not?
I don’t want to go out there unprepared, there are a lot of false promises, I want a bit more then that!

[Dave A]

Nienke, even if you don't go for "optimum" and just try to improve your SEO, you'll already be way ahead of most websites out there which don't even give SEO a second thought.

And as much as the OP was gently criticised as being outdated, the basics remain the basics and they still work.

You need good content.
You need to be aware of the keywords and phrases you are targetting.
You need to put those key words and phrases in the right places (domain name and page title are HUGEly important for this).
You need a short, attractive page description in your description META.
You need to get some exposure where there's already some traffic.

I'm not going to knock the rest because it all adds up, but I really think those are the most important basics without getting too tied up in subtleties.

[Nienke]

Hi Dave,

I guess you're right. Let's first focus on improving, or, in my case, starting. I've only went live with my side this week, and let's take 1 step at the time. First starting, then improving, and then looking at optimizing.

At times I get lost in all the possibilities, and it’s good to stay grounded and focused on the core business, before looking at the rest.

Thanks Dave, I think I needed some perspective there!

Nienke

[nikol]

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[sanimoyo]

Adding to the 24 hour ranking question, to the guys who said the link and the title, add the url, from my experience the meta tags still count, they are also important when it comes to Social Bookmarking, Bookmarking sites get the description from meta tags

[jsjullia]

Link building is the most important par of the SEO. It helps to us increase the visitors and the traffic. The important parts of the links building are the
1- Article submission.
2- Directory submission.
3- Press release submission.
4- Social bookmarking.

[nico42]

Thanks for theses advices !

[harounkola]

This is a bit dated, from Feb last year, but I just came across some really good advice for building free links quick, http://kaiserthesage.com/free-links