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04-15-2004, 03:05 PM #1Superhero
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Search Engines
My site is getting a decent number of hits, but when checking the stats I find that I'm getting nothing from search engines. I've manually submitted my site into all the major search engines, and they are getting listed... eventually. According to alexa I'm in over 50 search engines, yet all my traffic is from my own advertising. Can anyone provide info or links on how to gain more traffic from search engines? I've seen a few techniques that don't seem to work for me.
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04-16-2004, 06:34 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Manually submitting to search engines offers and guarantees nothing in terms of ranking.
And to get good traffic from search engines, you really need the rankings.
Most advice on SEO given in forums talks about manipulating on-page elements - title tag, header tags, text, etc. Yes, they can help - a little - but so far as I'm concerned, Google has specifically skewed the rankings so that it's much harder to rank for on-site elements unless you're already a very established site.
If you really want to rank for anything particular in the search engines then you almost certainly need to purchase professional SEO services which are firmly based in link building for you. Anything without link-building is - IMO - a complete waste of money. Certainly if you're talking about commercial terms in a commerical environment.
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04-16-2004, 07:06 AM #3WHT Addict
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Google is the search engine you should be targeting. Google has recently changed their algorithm and the weighting for on site elements has been reduced.
The most integral part of SEO is getting links from quality sites related to yours.
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04-16-2004, 06:00 PM #4Superhero
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Originally posted by webhostingj
The most integral part of SEO is getting links from quality sites related to yours.
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04-17-2004, 09:33 AM #5Newbie
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also you can try to use submiting programes
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04-17-2004, 10:21 AM #6Junior Guru
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also you can try to use submiting programes\
- Major search engines use bots to crawl your site regardless of being submitted
- If your site is not properly optimized to suit the search engines you are targeting, you will see little benefit.
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04-17-2004, 10:30 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by spiderweb
In my opinion this is pretty useless for the following reasons:
- Major search engines use bots to crawl your site regardless of being submitted
- If your site is not properly optimized to suit the search engines you are targeting, you will see little benefit.Last edited by jheslop1; 04-17-2004 at 10:36 AM.
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04-17-2004, 11:00 AM #8Retired Moderator
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Get links from sites that are already spidered and you won't need to submit as the search engines will index your website by following those links. Submit to directories though.
Check out http://highrankings.com/forum and read a lot of what's being already posted there.
Good luck!
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04-17-2004, 01:48 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Amdac
Easier said than done.
Other forums of note for SEO issues include:
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php
http://www.internet-marketing-resear...rums/index.php
and of course,
http://www.webmasterworld.com/