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dangermouse75
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Search Engine Optimisation - SEO is all about twicking your site in order to try to improve your ranking on the big search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo and MSN).
This page explains the tricks of SEO.
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ianm
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Great Link, here another one I use which shows you what the spiders see when they view your site, also shows keyword density and a whole bunch of other tools
http://www.searchenginegenie.com/spider-test-tool/index.php
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dangermouse75
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Touche, great link returned!
This Compete site gives you some Site Analytics for the big sites.
Mine is too small - it says insufficient numbers!
I use www.google.com/analytics
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dangermouse75
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Your tip about spiders made me realise my site could be more spider-friendly.
Here are some helpful Spider tips!
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/design_no2.htm
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=70433
One thing I have realised I'm guilty of on my Frontpage site (ok I'll rewrite it one day) is linking to the home page incorrectly.
ecademy.com say: All internal links pointing to the home page of the site should link to "/" or "http://www.sitedomainname.com/". Any sort of "index.html", "default.asp" or "main.jsp" in the URLs of those internal links introduce unnecessary problems like the duplicate content problem and split page's authority."
For you Frontpage people out there:
You can quickly change all of your code in Frontpage by clicking
Replace <a href="../"> with <a href="../">
Remembering to click Find in All Pages and Find in Source Code.
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Jedi
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Thanks Dangermouse75 some great tips in that list
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Why Climb Mount Everest? 'Because Its There' - George Mallory 1922
Mount Everest The British Story
www.everest1953.co.uk
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dangermouse75
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More tips...
Ten Tips for Optimizing a Web Page for Search Engines
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djmick100
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Search Engine Optimisation - SEO is all about twicking your site in order to try to improve your ranking on the big search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo and MSN).
This page explains the tricks of SEO.
Some of the advice offered in this article is absurd & laughable. A few examples of this:
#2 - arguable, this is not always the case
#3 - nonesense
#5 - nonesense
#7 - nonesense, I know of many sites and webpages that haven't changed in years that rank top 3 in google for highly competative keywords and phrases.
#8 - nonesense
#10 - what tags???
#11 - including your keywords up to five times could be seen as attempting to spam the SE.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66358
#12 - there are many ways to get indexed quickly
#13 - depending on google alone for traffic is a bad business model, so plenty of other links are important plus it gives your site a wide & varied backlink profile.
#14 - link exchange farms are a BAD idea, read this page from google webmaster guidelines to clarify this.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356
#16 - using such methods will result in SE's detecting duplicate content and you'll achieve nothing, you're own original conent is the way to go.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66361
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
#17 - here is a PageRank comparison table for rough PR numbers
http://www.kenkai.com/google-pagerank-table.htm
#19 - waiste of time.
I'm not having a go at dangermouse75 for posting the article, just pointing out a few points in the article that I feel could send many forum members down the wrong path with their own sites.
Perhaps if anyone is interested I could offer some small posts in regard to tweaking your sites for Google.
Mick
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