You are only as good as your PR!!

Written by Mark Thrope


You are only as good as your PR!!

Imagine a situation where you have started a great site with exceptional design and high quality content. Your pagerank of course is zero and you alexa traffic rank is somewhere inrepparttar 18th lack or perhaps more. You want to bring visitors to your site and hence want it included inrepparttar 127775 search results butrepparttar 127776 search bots are taking their own time caching your site. Finallyrepparttar 127777 googlebot caches your site and you say, whatrepparttar 127778 heck, I am through. But to your dismay you find your site way deep down even for a non competitive keyword.

You feel a bit down but haverepparttar 127779 belief that getting some quality inbound links will solverepparttar 127780 issue. You start reaching sites with your link request but alas no one seems to be answering. Of course they want a link from a site having a good PR and not with a site having a PR of zero irrespective ofrepparttar 127781 quality. In fact quality just doesn't seem to matter in today's internet which is all but pagerank. If your site has a good page rank you arerepparttar 127782 king or else no one is ever going to bother about you.

Sorepparttar 127783 only option left before you now is to get links from directories, blogs, forums etc. and hope forrepparttar 127784 best. You do your best and wait for a PR update. After months of waitingrepparttar 127785 PR updates do happen but your pages get no more than PR3. You feel great about it though thinking 'something is better than nothing'. Now again you approach sites for a link exchange but to your sheer disappointment find that good sites never respond to you. All you seem to be getting are links from relatively unknown and low quality sites. You develop hundreds of low quality links and wait forrepparttar 127786 next PR update which seems an eternity to arrive. You have strong faith that for all those links you established your site will surely get a higer PR, but nothing of that sort happens. Your PR increases but not more than PR4. Then you realize that PR is exponential in nature. God forbid, you feel like cursingrepparttar 127787 PR system but you are left with no choice but to continue racing againstrepparttar 127788 odds to get links. You become a link maniac getting links from all corners ofrepparttar 127789 internet; after some time you realize that you are spending considerable amount of time getting inbound links and almost negligible amount of time on your website. You have not updated content for months now and your visitors are starting to turn away from your site.

Search Engine Optimization Tips (part 1)

Written by Jimmy Whisenhunt


Search engine optimization (seo) can be a freighting and daunting experience. We have put together some tips to make this task much more pleasant. We are going to go over some tips to help your search engine rankings. Here is what we are going to cover in this article.

1)Design and Setup Problems 2)Selectingrepparttar correct keywords 3)The Title Tag 4)Your Page Copy 5)Meta Tags 6)Images “alt” tags 7)What you should not do

1)Design and Setup Problems Unfortunately, some webmasters have lostrepparttar 127774 ballgame before they even get started with search engine optimization with design problems. We are going to go over five ofrepparttar 127775 most common design problems and there work around or solutions.

a)Sites that use Frames: Search engines do not index frames well. In fact search engine do such a poor job we recommend no to use frames at all. Here isrepparttar 127776 problem a frame page is likerepparttar 127777 name conveys it is a page in side of another page in a frame. The HTML code is like this: Framed Site

As you can see, there is no real content on inrepparttar 127778 page so search engines do not have anything to index. The work around is to userepparttar 127779 tag to add content to<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 127780"> page manually. You would place<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 127781"> tag before<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 127782"> </FRAMESET> then add your optimized content between <body> </body>. An easy way to do this is to create a new regular (not framed) home page for your site that describes your site, products & services. Then copy everything from between<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 127783"> <body> tags and insert it in<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 127784"> <noframes> tag. <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Example Framed Site</TITLE> </HEAD> <FRAMESET cols="150,*"> <FRAME name="contents" target="main"> <FRAME name="main"> <NOFRAMES> Optimized page content goes here for best results.

Keep it simple search engines like it that way and no one will every see it. Do not for get aboutrepparttar 127785 Title and Meta tags more on that later inrepparttar 127786 article.

b)Dynamic URLs Most search engine cannot or will not index dynamic URLs. A dynamic URL is a URL that contains any ofrepparttar 127787 following characters: ?, &, %, +, =, $, cgi-bin, .cgi Dynamic URLs are most common on database driven sites. If your URL contains any ofrepparttar 127788 above characters it is very unlikely that you will get listed withrepparttar 127789 major search engines. Solution is to make a static page that has a static URL on that does not contain any ofrepparttar 127790 above characters.

c)Sites That Use Flash Sites that use flash as a splash screen spiders cannot index them. A general rule is not to use flash as a home page splash screen. If you just have to use as much of your page copy as you can and remember to use your title and meta tags. Another note about flash is menu items. Spider’s follows HTML links with flash menu spiders cannot follow them. Work around use a site map to link all of your pages together sorepparttar 127791 spiders will have HTML links to follow.

d)Image Maps Image maps are similar to Flash most spiders cannot follow links in image maps. To be onrepparttar 127792 safe side build a site map of your entire site sorepparttar 127793 spiders have HTML links to crawl.

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