Web Hosting Talk







View Full Version : Search Engine Optimization does it exist?


Tyler
12-13-2004, 07:03 PM
Ok. I cannot afford the professional and SEO is not the biggest deal to me but it is still a big deal to me. I will tell you what I have done so far:

Place good Meta Tags
Sumbited to Search Engines
Subscribe to RSS Feeds
Advertising
Linking to my site
Link in my sig

Used the following site to help me with almost everything
http://www.instantposition.com/

Now how can I take it a step further by me personally? What should I do? Where do "professionalists" learn to SEO and called themselved "professionalists". Which brings me to my next does it even exist, Professional that is.

I've search high and low for the answered but all of the "basics" I have done. What else can I do? My Alexa rating is unbelievely high. I am only listed in Search Engines as nothing as I need to be: custom computers, custom computer, hardware and all of that thing in that cateogry. I am not looking for high rankings but just some even a little bit. Which is why I need everyone's help to "achieve the advance SEO".

Thanks!

Postmaster
12-15-2004, 07:21 AM
Place good Meta Tags
Google doesn't take Meta tags into consideration according to many SEO experts, however Yahoo and some other good searches do to a certain extent.

Sumbited to Search Engines
Search engines will still find you even if you don't submitt, word on the street has it, if you let the spider find you it gives you a boost in the serps.

Subscribe to RSS Feeds
content is king

Advertising
One of the best SEO practise is to advertise, your site will gain recognition leading to websites linking to your site. The more sites that link to you, the higher you go in search engines.

Linking to my site
very good

Link in my sig
doesn't make much difference at all, signature links are not important to search engines.

saghir69
12-15-2004, 08:20 AM
I'll say stick with getting related links, don't bother getting links for just SEO (from a page with 200 other link) Best to get links from sites that can send you related traffic!

Say a vistor goes from web hosting talk to web hosting chat and stays on that site for only 10 sec, i bet the session time is also taken into consideration.