SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Most of your quality traffic comes from search engines, therefore when building a website it is important to know the hints, tips and tricks that will give you better placement in the search engines. Mistakes can actually hurt your site in the search engines without you even realizing it. I have come across a number of websites in which beginners not yet familiar with search engine optimization make the same common mistakes. Read More
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July 13th, 2006 by Rose DesRochers · 10 Comments
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Wrote: Jul 13, 2006 at 10:50 pm
I think I have done most of the things that you write about here. And maybe i can say that my blog is well optimized for search engines.
My blog is a page rank 4 , but still i get near about 10 readers only per day.
What do you think i should do. could you please take a look at my blog or better give some suggestions to increase readership and traffic.
bye,
faraz
Wrote: Jul 14, 2006 at 4:29 am
The number one all time mistake is he mistake all spammers make – they forget that content is king.
Wrote: Jul 14, 2006 at 6:00 am
I was about to leave a vastly off-topic comment, then I remembered your policy on those.
Your article was really informative – and pitched at the right level too. I’m not a hacker-level whizz and I still feel like I can implement (sp?) your suggestions fairly easily.
I’m going to guess the eigth, unspoken SEO rule has something to do with regularly added, quality content?
Wrote: Jul 14, 2006 at 9:34 am
Yes RM it does. I update Todays-Woman.net every two days with fresh quality content.
Wrote: Jul 14, 2006 at 11:10 am
Faraz, your photo isn’t showing. First of all thank you for visiting my blog. You may want to change the color of the font that reads “Blog on Self Help and spirituality. Free self help tapes, resources on meditation also. vipassana meditation and awareness articles.reviews and articles on sedona method.how it has helped me.” It’s really hard to make out with the font color that you’re using and it tends to be overlapping part of the header and is the header supposes to be split like that?
I’d also do something about the sections of your blog that say coming soon.
You already have a page rank of four, so I think you’re off to a good start. Might I recommend my article ‘Rose DesRochers’s 7 Tips: How do you Generate Traffic to your Website or Blog?‘
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Wrote: Jul 14, 2006 at 3:38 pm
I’ll keep all these in mine when I figure out how to submit my blog to search engines (ive only ever blogged on LJ so there was never a need to submit it to search engines). Thanks for the tips =)
Also, thanks for stopping by to check out my blog and commenting.
Wrote: Jul 15, 2006 at 3:26 am
Most pro’s (although I disagree somewhat) recomend building up linkage for getting into search engines. The place where I disagree is they recomend 40 quality links whereas I think that as few as five or six good links will get you going.
I’m happy to engage in a little mutual reviewing to foster some linkage both ways if it will help anyone.
Wrote: Jul 15, 2006 at 10:33 am
Backlinks play a very big role in Google’s pagerank algorithm. Perhaps that should be my next article. Seven ways to achieve quality Backlinks.
Wrote: Jul 29, 2006 at 11:56 pm
I have a point to make here, you say that we should not use many graphics on our websites because the SE can’t read it. We can still add image description to the ALT and TITLE tags of the image to make it readble by SE.
Wrote: Jul 30, 2006 at 12:23 am
Harsha, you must have missed “6. No alt attribute in![]()
tags: As I stated above, search engines cannot spider images. Therefore the alt image tag helps the search engines understand the subject of the image. Be sure to include the alt attribute with every image.”
You can use images, if you use the alt.