Post by thread:[TECH] Book on search engine optimization

----- Original Message ----- From: "Vitaliy" <spam_OUTpiclistTakeThisOuTmaksimov.org> To: "piclist" <.....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@mit.edu> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:16 PM Subject: [TECH] Book on search engine optimization > Can someone recommend a good book on SEO? Dont know of any books ... but following the advice on http://www.sitewizard.com I got great results for my site. Scroll down the page and look for the series of articles under 'Search Engine Promotion'. Regards, Roger

Roger Weichert wrote: > Dont know of any books ... but following the advice on > http://www.sitewizard.com I got great results for my site. Do you mean http://www.thesitewizard.com? > Scroll down the page and look for the series of articles under 'Search > Engine Promotion'. Thanks, I will! Can you share what worked best for you? :) Vitaliy

From: "Vitaliy" <piclistKILLspammaksimov.org> > Roger Weichert wrote: >> Dont know of any books ... but following the advice on >> http://www.sitewizard.com I got great results for my site. > > Do you mean http://www.thesitewizard.com? Yes ... I'm really sorry about that. > Thanks, I will! Can you share what worked best for you? :) > > Vitaliy I'm not really certain what worked the best ... I applied all the suggestions at the same time as I built the pages. I put a list of keywords in the headings of the pages ... although I have read that google doesn't pay much attention to that anymore. I also used meta tags. I made sure the 'content' was filled in with a brief description of what my site was about. My domain name also describes what the site is about ... and I believe that has a fair weighting in googles decisions. Another thing I felt may have contributed was that I labled every image with words that were relevant to my content ... not just "image_1", "table_7" .. but "4600 Detacher" or "PRISM Pulsator" etc. The reason I think this is because with some of the search terms on 'google images' ... on some results, sometimes half the images on the first page are from my site .. and I reckon I've even searched one term that brought up images on the first page that were ALL from my site. I'm almost a little embarrased by that :) After putting the site up, I submitted it to google and waited. I didn't even get around to submitting it to yahoo or any others .. though it shows up in their searches now too. Overall I'm amazed at the results ... but was certainly more good luck than good management. :) Regards, Roger

Vitaliy wrote: > Can you share what worked best for you? :) >From my experience - try to keep it "scientific" style: strictly avoid any words related to emotions, stay within the chosen tecnical scope, use advanced scientific words (reasonably often), limit the "bells and whistles", keep the pages' HTML simple, - use limited number of colors and styles.

> I put a list of keywords in the headings of the pages ... although I have > read that google doesn't pay much attention to that anymore. > > I also used meta tags. Q: Why doesn't Google use the keywords meta tag? A: About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called "off-page" factors such as the links pointing to a web page. In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff often-irrelevant keywords without typical visitors ever seeing those keywords. Because the keywords meta tag was so often abused, many years ago Google began disregarding the keywords meta tag. googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html