Q&A: QUESTIONS ABOUT SEO (SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION) ?
Question by wiked_inspiration:
Questions about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) ?
I would like to make my website SEO friendly so how do I go abt it.
I have these queries regarding SEO :-
1) How do I find the right keywords for my website ?
2) What are some good practices to be followed while doing SEO for a website so tht it gets higher search rankings ?
3) How do I register my website with search engines such as google, yahoo, msn, ask.com etc ? Is it free or do they charge you ? If they charge then what is the cost of registration?
Please give me links for your answers.
Thanks in advance 
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Answer by Bdhire
1. Keywords : there are many articles on the site to use various tacnics and tools to find out the keywords . Use search engines to find them
2. Practices to follow : Read webmaster guidelines from Google, Yahoo etc .
3. If you meant to be indexed by SEs, for that try to get links from pages that are already indexed. No fees invovled here
Answer by spidertiger440
SEO and SEM should not be confused. Keywords help but they are only part of the algorithm that search engines use to shuffle results. Popularity, usability link quantities etc make a secret formula used by these search engines. SEM gets you in the top “sponsored results/sites” areas, the areas around the frame of the page are paid advertisers (which is way more profitable to advertise in), this is SEM. SEO is different, it lands your listing in the organic results area , these areas will get harder to find as time progresses forward. think of the web as real estate. it is getting gobbled up by paid advertising
Answer by Michael
It requires study, determination, good content, and not being lazy. One of the websites below helped a friend of mine place his very basic site in the top page of google and yahoo just by typing “barstool.” There is also a company that specializes in web 2.0 that has demonstrated to me they can get good results but costs money.
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://services.google.com/breeze/webmasters/googleforwebmasters/
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about 1 year ago
1. Using these tools
Keyword density
http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/keyword-density.html – This tool shows you how often appears which word in content of given domain
Keyword density center
http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php – Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage. This tool will crawl the specified URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.
Keyword Suggestion Tools
http://www.selfseo.com/keyword_suggestion_tool.php – This keyword suggestion tool will help you with the choosing of the right keywords for your website. You can see which keyword combinations are more popular and also get ideas for more keyword combinations..
2. You need to change your blog attribute from No Follow to Do Follow, read here : http://tendou86.blogspot.com/2008/08/change-nofollow-to-dofollow.html
3. Yes its free
Add to google: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Add to Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Add to MSN: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
about 1 year ago
To make your website SEO friendly first you have to install Meta Tags and Alt Attributes to your site. To make everything you input in your website is related to your target.
1. Finding the right keywords is not easy. You have to do keyword research in order to know the top selling keywords in the market, knowing the daily searches of that keywords and ofcourse your competitors on that certain words.
2. One-way link building campaign is much in a help to gain a high ranking but this type of link building isn’t that easy to do but assured you something that is worth doing for. Blog posting is a good way to earn a good ranking because almost all search engines loves unique and fresh articles time to time.
3. You can submit your website in that 4 major search engines for free. Some also have paid submission. The cost differ from each search engine. The advantage of paid submission is that you are assured that search engine will do a time to time check on your site.
about 1 year ago
1. Add content
Add content, add content, and add content. Before you even register your domain, you should have enough ideas to build 100 pages on your site. Start brainstorming and see what you can come up with in 10 minutes. If that’s not enough to fill 50 pages, consider not building the site at all. Having lots of content is important.
2. A simple design is better
Text content should outweigh the html content. Stay away from heavy flash, java, JavaScript, etc. Don’t add to much stuff like ‘best viewed with’… Your website should be viewable with any browser. Keep it clean and professional.
3. Keep the pages small
Smaller is better. Keep it under 15k if you can. Your site should be fast loading, or people will leave. Speed is everything. Next to content, that is. Keep it under 10k or 5k if you can. Difficult, but people love fast sites. Throw away all the trash on your pages.
4. Content length
Put a new page online every day of about 200 to 500 words. Go to the overture keyword suggester to find ideas of what to write about. Spell checks your content. Search engines can do it, and so should you. If you have a blog, go for article-like posts as opposed to the personal diary kinds of posts.
5. Use keywords
Use your keywords in the following places: title, description tag, heading, url, once bold, once italic and once high on the page.
6. Link to other sites
Put 2 links to other, high ranking pages on your site. They should be relevant to the content of that page and use keywords as your link. Don’t add every link that’s requested. Check their relevance first.
7. Link to your own site
Put links from one page to other relevant pages on your own site. Again: use keywords as your link.
8. Submit your site
Submit your site to Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, Msn, Hotbot, etc. Then forget about that for 6 months. Also submit it to every single directory you can find. Do a check after 6 months and resubmit if you’re not listed.
9. Log and track
Most hosts provide these. Don’t use a lame graphic counter. Check where your visitors are coming from to find out what traffic methods work best for your site.
10. Write for people
People are not coming to your site for your content. They are coming for their content. Try to write as if you are writing to one specific person, such as a friend of yours who’s interested in the same topic. Don’t try to write for ‘all of your visitors’.
11. Stay ahead
If you know that something big will come out in a few months, build a page about it now. It gives search engines time to index that page so they can feed it to the growing anticipating crowd.
12. Add more content
This is so important: keep adding content. Do this for a year and your site will be a top ranking website within one year. You could’ve been there now, if you started last year. So start now, so you’ll be there next year. You’ll thank yourself (and me) later.
To add your site to Google
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
To add your site to yahoo
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
To add your site to MSN
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=SUNO
You can submit your site to these major sites yourself. But to rank at the top, you need to advertise it. You can try free classified advertising.
Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:
http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/bidvertiser/bdv_ref.dbm?Ref_Option=adv&Ref_PID=131088
Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/
Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/
US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/
Kijiji http://www.kijiji.com/
Local.com http://www.local.com/
about 1 year ago
Hi,
I would be great to answer your questions. I’ll give answers step by step
1) “Keywords” is the main in terms of SEO because whenever visitors searches for a term they type for a “Keywords” in “Search Engines” link Google, Yahoo, MSN.
i.) I prefer you to check the theme of your website.
ii) Make a list of your competitors
iii) Go to Google Ad words (www.adwords.google.com or inventory overture) its a free keyword tool
iv) Check for your competitors keyword
v) Make a list of keywords and check in to ad words tool for how competitive keyword that keyword is for e.g. if you type “SEO” in Google you will see ” Results 1 – 100 of about 263,000,000″ and put in to your keyword tag, also write a title which includes your keyword
2) SEO is very simple you just need to understand what search engines are looking for
i) Content
ii) keywords
iii) Tags
iv) Link building
v) Social Book Marking
vi) Press release
vii) Article submission
3.) You don’t need to register your website to any search engine. Just make sure your site is search engine and visitors friendly. Once crawler will crawl your site your site get include in search engine data base. If you want to check how many of your pages index by search engine then just type “site:xyz.com
I hope this will be help full for you
For more I request you to visits following site
Do let me know if you have more queries about SEO or SEM
Thanks,
about 1 year ago
Hi,
For finding right keywords you should use google adword keyword tools.
For SEO you should start
Link building through paid and free manual directory submission and article submission.