Seeking Information about HTML and Search Engine links

[Cory]

My business has been slow lately because Google keeps changing it's search
engine guide lines. I am planing on doing a update on my home page this week
and I looking for a site that follows this sort of thing and has information
on how to set up one's home page for search engines like Google. Does anyone
know of the top two or three legitimate sites that cover this sort of
information?

(There are too many fly-by-night outfits that try to sell home page
promotion when doing a search on the subject is why I have come to this
newsgroup. I am sorry but I will not accept any email promotions.)

Regards

Kori

 

[Cameron]

My business has been slow lately because Google keeps changing it's search
engine guide lines. I am planing on doing a update on my home page this week
and I looking for a site that follows this sort of thing and has information
on how to set up one's home page for search engines like Google. Does anyone
know of the top two or three legitimate sites that cover this sort of
information?

(There are too many fly-by-night outfits that try to sell home page
promotion when doing a search on the subject is why I have come to this
newsgroup. I am sorry but I will not accept any email promotions.)

Regards

Kori

What do you mean by set your home page up for search engines like google?

~Cameron

 

[Steve R.]

Cory wrote in message ...

My business has been slow lately because Google keeps
changing it's search engine guide-lines.

It's more fruitful if you post your URL here, so that the combined
expertise of the group can analyse your markup and give you a more accurate
answer.

 

[PeterMcC]

My business has been slow lately because Google keeps changing it's
search engine guide lines.

I'm surprised to hear that.

I am planing on doing a update on my home
page this week and I looking for a site that follows this sort of
thing and has information on how to set up one's home page for search
engines like Google.

Get your keywords in the title text and get them appearing regularly in...
<Hx> text
Link text
Alt text on images used for links
The copy
The link text on inbound links
....and you'll be 9/10ths there.

Forget about the keywords meta tag and don't worry about optimising the
description meta tag, that's not used for ranking purposes.

Does anyone know of the top two or three
legitimate sites that cover this sort of information?

searchenginewatch.com
www.spider-food.net

 

[Cameron]

Thank you for the information. I would post more information, but I already
get about 500 spam messages a day. I know that spamers collect information
off these newsgroups, so I prefer not to give out any more information other
than to say business.
Everyone who has a business is at the mercy of Google. I sometimes wish they
did not have so much power over search engine hit location.

Thanks again.

Cory

Uhm they don't, google uses an automated system to position links, they
don't accept payment for it, that is Yahoo you are thinking of, at least
they used to.

~Cameron

 

[Cory]

Thank you for the information. I would post more information, but I already
get about 500 spam messages a day. I know that spamers collect information
off these newsgroups, so I prefer not to give out any more information other
than to say business.
Everyone who has a business is at the mercy of Google. I sometimes wish they
did not have so much power over search engine hit location.

Thanks again.

Cory

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I am planing on doing a update on my home page this week
and I looking for a site that follows this sort of thing and has information
on how to set up one's home page for search engines like Google.

You don't need to really. If your page is valid and accessible, Google
will be able to read it. If you have lots of useful content people will
link to it and your pagerank will go up.

Simply by providing a good page, you will get a good Google ranking.

 

[Steve R.]

I know that spammers collect informationoff these newsgroups,
so I prefer not to give out any more information ......

It's too late, as you've already given your email address on the newsgroup.

That's what the sSpammers 'robots' collect, NOT the URLs which are posted
here.

 

[Cory]

I did not mean to say that Google was cheating, I am sure they do not. What
I meant was that for some small businesses, it's frustrating to have so
little control over where Google lists your business in a search. Google can
put a small business in the red quickly by changing their search formula
(key words, links on other sites, etc. ). Most small businesses can't afford
to advertise like the large ones. We just have to hope we fall somewhere
near the front of a customer search.

Cory

 

[Marc Nadeau]

Cory a écrit:

Thank you for the information. I would post more information, but I
already get about 500 spam messages a day. I know that spamers collect
information off these newsgroups, so I prefer not to give out any more
information other than to say business.
Everyone who has a business is at the mercy of Google. I sometimes wish
they did not have so much power over search engine hit location.

Thanks again.

Cory

Not everyone; it depends on what you sell.
This might be true for mail-shipped goods but when one (like me) sells a
service, localised search-engines bring more business. And it is usually
quite inexpensive to buy some more visibility from these.

What is important is not how many visitors one have but how many of them buy
something.

But i agree with you that google may have too much power. I hope for more
competition in a near future.