What is the single best strategy for Search Engine Optimization?
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jimbly questioned:
I”m discussion about trying to rank for really general stipulations that are highly competitive… are link directories worth it?
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February 4, 2009 am28 12:11 pm
Place your keywords in anchor text. No, link directories are not worth for ranking. They just help with building some backlinks for your site.
February 4, 2009 am28 6:58 pm
The single best strategy to rank well under a agreed term is to become the expert on the content. Write and deliver the best possible information possible that people will want to read and share.
Once you get past the basics such as genteel site coding, etc. you’ll want to focus on making your content a must read. This will mean that other sites will want to link to you with very relevant anchor text.
- Get Google Webmasters Tools
- Make sure you’re sites getting indexed and has a site map
- Bring up to date the site regularly
- make sure you are getting your articles Dugg, Stumbled Upon, etc.
- get educated on how to honestly rank highly.
Directories are a fantastic way to start building your linking, but you’ll want to do more than that if you want to rank highly for more competitive stipulations.
February 6, 2009 am28 6:53 pm
The only way to rank for a really competitive keyword is with excellent backlinks along with excellent anchor text.
But, I’d go after the less competitive keywords to start with and work my way up to the competitive keywords. You can get a site ranked for a non-competitive keyword in a couple days but may spend months on a competitive one.
Enough of the non-competitive keywords will drive traffic to feed the kids while you’re trying to get the competitive ones.
February 9, 2009 am28 12:07 pm
For really general stipulations, I’m going to say it’s probably your linking strategy.
I’ll give you a golden secret here, but this’ll help you considerably if you take the time & effort to apply it.
Find out who your top competitors are and analyze them. Their on-page optimization efforts, and their linking strategies.
Go to:
And type in the URL of the pages of the top 5 or top 10 and look into your competition’s inbound links – everywhere they’re located on the page, the topical relevance of the site that is linking to your competition and the anchor text used to link to your competition. You can determine if they’re paid links (or somehow incentivized, not just cash money) or if they’re natural.
Now, to break this down and know their linking strategies, you’ll have to have a excellent understanding of link building & SEO yourself, but it’s a excellent way to help you determine a linking strategy that will likely help you achieve your goals if you’ll follow through with it.
This doesn’t work in all cases, and it’s not a perfect plot – but it gives you some very valuable information on your competition & what they’re doing regarding their link building strategies.
If you need any help, I do place forward competition research services – it’s not really low-cost, but what I do is listed here (albeit in a condensed format).
February 11, 2009 am28 3:07 am
The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at?...... and
MSN.com in view of the fact that 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to learn
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to deliberate some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of innumerable critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search peacefulness does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it starts with the “Title” metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The “Title” should describe in generic
stipulations, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the “Title” is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the “Description” which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – “Keywords” are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid manifold entries
which could be mistaken as “spamdexed entries” which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
“Spamdexing” when learned on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Start with the very “generic” search query
“sandwiches downtown los angeles,” taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to “LA” and of course, leave
out the parentheses (“). It will bring up some 470,000 search results. Check out everywhere “Nazos.net”
is ranked. It’s ranked No. 1!
Again, Nazos.net’s high web presence was achieved by
genteel web point and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google’s publication guidelines.
Excellent luck!
February 11, 2009 am28 11:31 am
Links to your website is really all what SEO is. get links wherever you can: blogs, directories, buy them, etc
February 11, 2009 am28 9:59 pm
You can join the link army everywhere a convergence helps you build links for your site. link directories are a waste of time, and most of them don’t give you benefit