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[webnetwork]

Hello there, I have some experience in SEO but still I am not happy about my work, maybe is because I don't do so much SEO work or maybe is because the work is not done as it suppose to be, any way my question to you is what kind of strategy do you follow so you can get good traffic on your web site.

Regards Dan,

[itsonlychand]

I am in SEO field since last 3 years and I would suggest you to be natural and don't expect overnight results.


I want to sum up the Do’s and Don’ts of Google’s guidelines to SEO best practices (not all of them, because some are extremely basic, so just the ones that you may have forgotten)

Do’s:

1. Have other sites link to yours (quality, relevant sites).
2. Submit a sitemap using your Google Webmaster Tools account.
3. Submit your site to quality, high authority directories in the appropriate category.
4. Make a site with text links and a clear hierarchy, and make sure every page is reachable by at least one static text link.
5. Create useful, unique, and clearly written content. Relevancy is key.
6. Make sure your TITLE tags and ALT tags are”descriptive and accurate” (see, even Google recommends this - told you I wasn’t BS’ing!)
7. Maintain clean HTML code.
8. Keep the outgoing links on a particular page under 100.
9. Make it easy for search bots to crawl your site without error.
10. Make use of the robots.txt file to limit crawling on pages that aren’t useful to visitors.
11. Make pages for users, not search engines. (It’s fine to optimize your page, but don’t do nasty spammy things just to get the search engine’s to look for it)

Dont’s:

1. Don’t have any broken links on your site.
2. Don’t use hidden text or hidden links (people, doing that is soooo 2002, and will get you heavily penalized)
3. Don’t cloak or use “sneaky” redirects.
4. Don’t load pages with keywords or keyphrases. This is spam, and Google knows it.
5. Don’t send automated queries to Google.
6. Don’t create duplicate content. (This will kill your rankings most of the time)
7. Don’t create pages that install bad things (trojan’s, viruses, malware, etc..) - kind of a no brainer anyway.
8. If you participate in an affiliate program, don’t provide duplicate, run of the mill content. Provide useful, relevant content for the user.
9. DON’T participate in linking schemes!!! Bloggers pay attention to that one. So many of those viral linking posts go around, and they are just not good for business. That’s why you rarely see the bigger A-list blogs take part, because they know it’s bad for rankings. Resist the temptation to gain 30 extra links overnight (do you really think Google doesn’t know what’s up with that, c’mon….).

Source

[aamirshah]

Well. I always submit my websites to bookmarking websites to get my site index in 24 hours and never use google webmasters tools. And do not send your website to google.com/addurl. Because it will list your website to last place. Submit your website to Open directories and bookmarking websites such as squidoo, stumbleupon, furl, spurl, yahoo bookmarks, propeller. e.t.c. Anyone have some more and better techniques?

[itsonlychand]

Originally Posted by aamirshah

Well. I always submit my websites to bookmarking websites to get my site index in 24 hours and never use google webmasters tools. And do not send your website to google.com/addurl. Because it will list your website to last place. Submit your website to Open directories and bookmarking websites such as squidoo, stumbleupon, furl, spurl, yahoo bookmarks, propeller. e.t.c. Anyone have some more and better techniques?

You are doing well and you should submit your sitemap to Google sitemap tool, It helps Google bots to crawl your web sites easily.

I will also recommend you www.Tagza.com - Its young and cool Bookmarking web site, in few weeks its Alexa ranking is in 33K and going up and up every day, regardless of guys objecting alexa validity

[Hosting_Reserve]

Originally Posted by aamirshah

never use google webmasters tools. And do not send your website to google.com/addurl. Because it will list your website to last place.

Do you have any proof to back that up?

When we create new websites for our clients we submit a sitemap and add the site at http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl (even though it should not be necessary) and usually get sites in the index with 24 - 48 hours and cached within a week.

So that sounds wrong to me....

Getting high up in the serps is another matter. That is an ongoing process.

[mikevasquez]

Originally Posted by itsonlychand

I am in SEO field since last 3 years and I would suggest you to be natural and don't expect overnight results.


I want to sum up the Do’s and Don’ts of Google’s guidelines to SEO best practices (not all of them, because some are extremely basic, so just the ones that you may have forgotten)

Do’s:

1. Have other sites link to yours (quality, relevant sites).
2. Submit a sitemap using your Google Webmaster Tools account.
3. Submit your site to quality, high authority directories in the appropriate category.
4. Make a site with text links and a clear hierarchy, and make sure every page is reachable by at least one static text link.
5. Create useful, unique, and clearly written content. Relevancy is key.
6. Make sure your TITLE tags and ALT tags are”descriptive and accurate” (see, even Google recommends this - told you I wasn’t BS’ing!)
7. Maintain clean HTML code.
8. Keep the outgoing links on a particular page under 100.
9. Make it easy for search bots to crawl your site without error.
10. Make use of the robots.txt file to limit crawling on pages that aren’t useful to visitors.
11. Make pages for users, not search engines. (It’s fine to optimize your page, but don’t do nasty spammy things just to get the search engine’s to look for it)

Dont’s:

1. Don’t have any broken links on your site.
2. Don’t use hidden text or hidden links (people, doing that is soooo 2002, and will get you heavily penalized)
3. Don’t cloak or use “sneaky” redirects.
4. Don’t load pages with keywords or keyphrases. This is spam, and Google knows it.
5. Don’t send automated queries to Google.
6. Don’t create duplicate content. (This will kill your rankings most of the time)
7. Don’t create pages that install bad things (trojan’s, viruses, malware, etc..) - kind of a no brainer anyway.
8. If you participate in an affiliate program, don’t provide duplicate, run of the mill content. Provide useful, relevant content for the user.
9. DON’T participate in linking schemes!!! Bloggers pay attention to that one. So many of those viral linking posts go around, and they are just not good for business. That’s why you rarely see the bigger A-list blogs take part, because they know it’s bad for rankings. Resist the temptation to gain 30 extra links overnight (do you really think Google doesn’t know what’s up with that, c’mon….).

Source

THANKS FOR THIS GUIDE!

[Zafar Ahmed]

Originally Posted by aamirshah

Well. I always submit my websites to bookmarking websites to get my site index in 24 hours and never use google webmasters tools. And do not send your website to google.com/addurl. Because it will list your website to last place. Submit your website to Open directories and bookmarking websites such as squidoo, stumbleupon, furl, spurl, yahoo bookmarks, propeller. e.t.c. Anyone have some more and better techniques?

I think you need to read wikipedia on SEO quite often as whatever you said above is untrue.

[shakir]

Nice post from "itsonlychand". What about forum signature and link buying didnt mentiond

[MrCat]

For best reults, I suggest you diversify SEO with other promotional techniques for more targeted traffic. SEO + ads + banners + PPC + good content = more reach an targeted traffic. SEO is best for the long run. If you want faster results, advertising on the right platforms is your best opt

[ogletreeseo]

Submitting your site to webmaster tools is a good idea. Whoever said that it hurts must be a spammer. If you are going to dabble in the black arts then I would not reccomend it.

[junki]

1. write for your visitors not search engine.
2. optimize your pages
3. get quality backlinks
4. submit directory
5. social bookmarking
6. post blog
7. submit articles
8. etc.