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cant think of anything but SEO is pretty unimportant compared to customer focused copy and the sites connectedness

• andrewljohnson 18y ago
  There are in fact a couple good ways to do some "white hat" SEO: 1. Title your pages appropriately - if you want to get searches for "Yosemite Park Map" - then make sure that's the title of the page. 2. Make sure your pages are linked - Google will not crawl your pages if they are not linked. I linked all my park maps as follows (http://www.trailbehind.com/park_index/0/ http://www.trailbehind.com/park_index/0/), strictly so Google would crawl them. 3. Try and get some external links, through sites such as Y-Combinator and Reddit - external links help your pagerank. 4. As a corrolary to #3, you should try and get links where the linked text is the search result you want. So if you want to get referrals for "Download Park Maps", you'd like the link to use those exact words. 5. Consider your copy carefully, and use key-words for which you want search referrals. If you have a page that is titled "Yosemite Park Map" and the words "Yosemite Park Map" in the body of the page, that will help. 6. Links from credible sites help your page-rank a great deal, so if you know someone with a popular website, ask them to throw you a bone if a link to you is topical to their site. 7. Aim at "long tail" searches. For my start-up, it's unlikely that we can get links for something like "Yosemite National Park," because there are a lot of great sites that provide information on Yosemite. But there are also a lot of smaller parks, places, and trails which don't have much, and we are looking for Google searches on those.