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I thought this was pretty standard so here are some other tips for anyone starting a new site or looking to increase their SEO. Sitemaps and metatags are the ma

I thought this was pretty standard so here are some other tips for anyone starting a new site or looking to increase their SEO. Sitemaps and metatags are the main things you need on every site+page. I suggest you then write a 600-1000 word article using your keyword as the title and in the URL. Then use the same keyword 1-2% of the time in the body, so a 1000 word article has 10 mentions. Plus use the keyword in an H1, H2, and H3 tag. Also use the keyword in one link to another page on your site. You also want to include at least one off page link with anchor text of your keyword to a high-authority site like wikipedia. And then after that is done, I suggest you ping it using something like www.pingomatic.com to make it get crawled more quickly. Any other q's feel free to msg or email me.

untog 14y ago
Honestly, this is the kind of stuff I hate. The Google employee has suggested how best to use a sitemap to allow Google to index your existing content. You recommend writing an un-necessary article, packing it with keywords and links. That's the last thing the internet needs more of.
- matznerd 14y ago
  I didn't say unnecessary or even crappy content, and there is no stuffing involved. I meant to simply use the antecedent instead of a pronoun, it doesn't change the content. Google is an algorithm and it does not read "stop words" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words). And I was just suggesting that you use authority links with your anchor word, nothing unnecessary, but most posts do include links in them, so just make sure it isn't a shitty one. Content is king, everyone knows that, but I was just telling you what to do when starting out so that you have a good base for your site.
studio816 14y ago
Why not focus your efforts on developing a great product or service? If it deserves the number one spot for the top keywords in your industry, it'll get there, I guarantee it ;)
- matznerd 14y ago
  Unfortunately that is not completely true, especially in the short term. If you are relying on organic search traffic for your product or site, no matter how good it is, you may have difficulty being found, especially if the product has a common name. Aged websites (+1 year) have a large advantage vs any site less than a year or even 3 months old. A site with a high number of backlinks and a good domain (EMD) will be extremely difficult to displace. Fortunately SEO is around 40%-65% onsite these days and so if you do have a good product and service it is possible you will rise up, although it will be less likely if you do not have optimized on-page content and structure (like Sitemaps).
  - thwarted 14y ago
    Of course aged websites have an advantage against the short-term thinker with a 3 month old site, and that's how it should be. The chances that an established site that has a record of being regularly updated with fresh, relevant content has more useful content than a new, 3 month old site, is higher (but not guaranteed). This is as it should be: those who put in more work to create useful content should win for higher, more relevant placement.
thwarted 14y ago
This is an SEO suggestion straight out of 2003.
- matznerd 14y ago
  All off the stuff I said is valid as of today. If this was 2003 the advice would be to keyword stuff the hell out of it. Then get thousands of shitty backlinks using comments from blogs and forum profiles. Actually that's like 2 years ago. In 2003 Google could be influenced much more easily.
  - thwarted 14y ago
    That may be, but the problem is that that's a losing battle. It's the same, relatively easy strategy that everyone else is doing, and thus a losing proposition. I really don't see how what you suggest is significantly different from keyword stuffing. You're not stuffing the page, you're stuffing the links between the pages: the blog post and your site (and the fact that you're suggesting Search engines, including Google, have an interest in leading users to useful pages. A shill blog post stuffed with keyboards and backlinks to your target content is not useful. It's not useful by definition that you didn't add or create any useful content, instead you are working on gaming the search engine. If legitimately useful pages, that users want to see, are not appearing at the top of search results, the (legitimate) search engines will figure out a way to detect those and put them there, since that's what users want. Meanwhile, you'll be doing the same thing everyone else is doing (link stuffing and low-content search engine food blog posts), so your site becomes indistinguishable from the millions of other cheap attempt search engine spamming sites. Instead, build a useful product or site with useful information that's engaging to users. Of course this seems like the harder thing to do, but, duh, TANSTAAFL. It's worth pointing out that the OP is talking about how to tell google your site exists, how to detect duplicate content, and a bunch of other stuff that if I list it here I'll be repeating it, not how to game it. Saying one should write a fluff blog post for the link juice is attempting to game it.
- mparlane 14y ago
  Some people are still stuck there.
rfergie 14y ago
Stop giving the rest of us a bad name

untog 14y ago

Honestly, this is the kind of stuff I hate. The Google employee has suggested how best to use a sitemap to allow Google to index your existing content. You recommend writing an un-necessary article, packing it with keywords and links. That's the last thing the internet needs more of.

matznerd 14y ago
I didn't say unnecessary or even crappy content, and there is no stuffing involved. I meant to simply use the antecedent instead of a pronoun, it doesn't change the content. Google is an algorithm and it does not read "stop words" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words). And I was just suggesting that you use authority links with your anchor word, nothing unnecessary, but most posts do include links in them, so just make sure it isn't a shitty one. Content is king, everyone knows that, but I was just telling you what to do when starting out so that you have a good base for your site.

studio816 14y ago

Why not focus your efforts on developing a great product or service? If it deserves the number one spot for the top keywords in your industry, it'll get there, I guarantee it ;)

matznerd 14y ago
Unfortunately that is not completely true, especially in the short term. If you are relying on organic search traffic for your product or site, no matter how good it is, you may have difficulty being found, especially if the product has a common name. Aged websites (+1 year) have a large advantage vs any site less than a year or even 3 months old. A site with a high number of backlinks and a good domain (EMD) will be extremely difficult to displace. Fortunately SEO is around 40%-65% onsite these days and so if you do have a good product and service it is possible you will rise up, although it will be less likely if you do not have optimized on-page content and structure (like Sitemaps).
- thwarted 14y ago
  Of course aged websites have an advantage against the short-term thinker with a 3 month old site, and that's how it should be. The chances that an established site that has a record of being regularly updated with fresh, relevant content has more useful content than a new, 3 month old site, is higher (but not guaranteed). This is as it should be: those who put in more work to create useful content should win for higher, more relevant placement.

thwarted 14y ago

This is an SEO suggestion straight out of 2003.

matznerd 14y ago
All off the stuff I said is valid as of today. If this was 2003 the advice would be to keyword stuff the hell out of it. Then get thousands of shitty backlinks using comments from blogs and forum profiles. Actually that's like 2 years ago. In 2003 Google could be influenced much more easily.
- thwarted 14y ago
  That may be, but the problem is that that's a losing battle. It's the same, relatively easy strategy that everyone else is doing, and thus a losing proposition. I really don't see how what you suggest is significantly different from keyword stuffing. You're not stuffing the page, you're stuffing the links between the pages: the blog post and your site (and the fact that you're suggesting Search engines, including Google, have an interest in leading users to useful pages. A shill blog post stuffed with keyboards and backlinks to your target content is not useful. It's not useful by definition that you didn't add or create any useful content, instead you are working on gaming the search engine. If legitimately useful pages, that users want to see, are not appearing at the top of search results, the (legitimate) search engines will figure out a way to detect those and put them there, since that's what users want. Meanwhile, you'll be doing the same thing everyone else is doing (link stuffing and low-content search engine food blog posts), so your site becomes indistinguishable from the millions of other cheap attempt search engine spamming sites. Instead, build a useful product or site with useful information that's engaging to users. Of course this seems like the harder thing to do, but, duh, TANSTAAFL. It's worth pointing out that the OP is talking about how to tell google your site exists, how to detect duplicate content, and a bunch of other stuff that if I list it here I'll be repeating it, not how to game it. Saying one should write a fluff blog post for the link juice is attempting to game it.
mparlane 14y ago
Some people are still stuck there.

rfergie 14y ago

Stop giving the rest of us a bad name