FAQ: Search Engine Optimization

[yuri6312]

oh very good ~~
lessing my times~

[root]

Divine article. Very helpfull.

[Iuliana]

You can also try Aaron’s SEO book (and I am not advertising here), which is a great asset to anyone who wants to better his/her SEO experience. I know it did miracles for me …

[james_h]

@RankManDude

Building your PageRank can be a little tricky and
expensive. I build my PageRank purely using grace domains & seeking
software. There is a newsletter out for it that might help and I think
it comes with the software too.

Could you please elaborate. Link will be appriciated.

[Junelle]

… means one visit?

[peach]

@stymiee

Why does Google show less backlinks then Yahoo and MSN? Why doesn’t Google show all of my backlinks?

Googles purposely does not list all links pointing to a particular page. This is an effort to keep webmasters from manipulating their system. They also only update backlinks on a periodic basis so you may have acquired new backlinks but they haven’t been refelected in Googles update. That doesn’t mean Google doesn’t know they are there. They just haven’t publicy acknowledged them yet. It is also important to keep in mind that Google only shows backlinks for the specific page you requested (usually the homepage), not the whole site like other search engines do.

Also, Google also only displays the number of backlinks to one specific page. This is usually the homepage since that is what most webmasters check for. Yahoo, and other search engines, report the number of incomming links per domain.

Not entirely true, Yahoo and MSN differ from Google by having the option to do a linkdomain: search… while all 3 of the search engines still support the link: operator (page specific).

[jasebud]

I see that I am way late in joining the party, but I just want to say thanks for the post. That is one of the most thorough posts I have ever seen. Very good information for those of us who want to know where to start.
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[dancing_mathilde]

You learn about optimizing by reading a lot and I miss one website with background information. Try to understand the way a SE is working, and although algorithems are changing every time, the basid idea is still there.

This guy wrote about Altavista, but you also can see it more SE related.

http://users.skynet.be/fa215763/avrank.html

It is worth to do a search for it At least it helped me years ago (when av was still the no 1) to understand about SEO and why clean writing is so important.

One more for any long lonely night:

http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-261450/tm.htm#261450

[ticksoft]

Excellent resource, although sorry to be a grammar nazi but you might want to read this:

Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words

Would normally try to ignore something like that but since it’s an FAQ…

It’s weird I run a big content website and all the writers have their problems, but the above problem seems to be unique to our contributors from USA and Canada. Does “then” and “than” sound the same in North America?

[roguenroll]

Great thread. I’ve heard the inbound links are great. but that reciprocal linking is not.

Is there more weight on inbound links with no reciprical back to that site.

[hostcord]

@ticksoft

Excellent resource, although sorry to be a grammar nazi but you might want to read this:

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/t/then-than.html

Would normally try to ignore something like that but since it’s an FAQ…

It’s weird I run a big content website and all the writers have their problems, but the above problem seems to be unique to our contributors from USA and Canada. Does “then” and “than” sound the same in North America?

to answer your question, yes

[Andy_Anderson]

Good to know! Thanks!

[Overridex]

thanks for the info!

Overridex.

[knobleman]

SEO book is an excellent resource for SEO information in my opinion. I think the owner sells a book for $80 and shows you exactly how he got his website to the top of the SERPs for competitive keywords like SEO.

[Hazeaccord]

This will help me out a lot, since iam just now bringing back my site i had 2 years ago, tryin to make it somewhat big… thanks for all the info, i will be using this.

[UsefulSubmit]

Thank you stymiee! Very good.

[mbm]

@stymiee

A good place to start is to submit to directories. Start with the free ones and then decide whether pay ones are worth it for you. Here’s a great place where you can find a free directory listing that sorts them by PR, Alexa rank (worthless), and more: http://www.tipsntutorials.com/Top-Directories/ and also check out http://www.isedb.com as it lists thousands of place you might find worth submitting to.

Very good and useful article.
However, I was curious about the above mentioned sites and see what I found there http://www.tipsntutorials.com/tips/Web-Design/40
Short tips and tutorials with extremely long :x comments - tons of links added as comments to each of them. Quite disapointing when visiting it after reference from this well written article.

[Bunnysquad]

Sweet article, thanks a load

[use]

very informative thanx

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[grantgrant]

Wow, excellent stuff. I am about to launch my site. This is by far the best SEO 101 I have seen. Hats off to you!!