How To SEO?

[IMer2TheMax]

I would like to know the steps you take to SEO your site.

1. What do you do with the code?

2. What do you do with the Post?

3. What else is there?

I have about 10 sites, been working at it for a year

and have NO traffic yet lots of posts on some of the sites.

I could really use your help.

Thanks

Kelvin

[Wealthy]

1. What do you do with the code?  What code?

2. What do you do with the Post?   What post?

3. What else is there?  For what?


I think you need to be a bit more specific so we can help you here.
I can only guess what you are asking but I dont want to write stuff and find it is not what you are asking.

[IMer2TheMax]

1. What do you do with the code?  What code?

2. What do you do with the Post?   What post?

3. What else is there?  For what?


I think you need to be a bit more specific so we can help you here.
I can only guess what you are asking but I dont want to write stuff and find it is not what you are asking.

I know that there is optimization techniques for both the templates source code and within the actual article. This is what I am looking for.

I had read something about meta tags (source code)

I also read something about keywords (article)

I would like to know what the exact steps are or where I can find out about these steps.

Thank you

Kelvin

[LetterMall]

Kelvin ...

I've had one very busy multi-tasking day and can hardly keep
my eyes open. However, I wanted to say hello and let you know
I'll round up some good info and get back to you. Don't let me
forget ... OK

Art

[IMer2TheMax]

Kelvin ...

I've had one very busy multi-tasking day and can hardly keep
my eyes open. However, I wanted to say hello and let you know
I'll round up some good info and get back to you. Don't let me
forget ... OK

Art

Thanks Art. I will remind you later if I don't see anything in the next 24 hours.

Thanks again.

Kelvin

[LetterMall]

Kelvin ...

I'll give you some brief info here.  However, your question has prompted
me to consider creating a tutorial page or two that will be more in-depth.

For now though let's discuss Meta Tags.

What are Meta Tags?

Basically, meta tags are tidbits of extra information that you can add to your web pages.
This info can range from the more popular keywords and description to robots directions
and copyright information.

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name="description"

<meta name="description" content="Kelvin's House Fly Company - your complete house fly headquarters.  All sizes and colors of houseflies from extra small to extra wooly. Online ordering and overnight delivery available.">

Merely a description of the page or site.
In your description use words and phrases that you would like to show up in a search.

You can use one generic description for every page in your site, or you can write a
different one for every page
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name="keywords"

<meta name="keywords" content="house fly, house fly food, house fly aids, tools, braces, Kelvin's Wing Cleaner, flyomatic">

Basically just a comma-delimited list of keywords and short phrases...
(Comment: Keywords should show in the content of your web page. Plus, normally more than once.
You can find complete discussions on keywords, keyword density, etc. if you'll just search around.)

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name="robots"

<meta name="robots" content="Instructions Go Here">

A search engine uses a computer program to find and index (catalog) web pages.
It "crawls" from one page to the next by following links. This type of computer program
is called a "spider" or a "robot". These spiders can be told what links to follow or not follow,
pages to index or not index.
[One method is to use a robots.txt file in your root home page directory.]
Another common method (assuming you wanted to control the robot) is to make use
of the robots meta tag in individual pages...

Here are some of the instructions you can use:

"all" -   This is the default. It means that the spiders (or robots) can index this page and
follow all links on this page. If you want robots to index everything and follow everything,
then just skip the robots tag. The robots will index and follow everything automatically.

"none"   Instructs the browser to basically ignore the page. Don't index anything and don't follow any links.

"index"    The robot should index the page.

"noindex"    The robot may not index the page, but it is welcome to follow links on the page.

"follow"    The robot may follow links on the page.

"nofollow"    The robot is welcome to index the page, but may not follow any links on the page.



Here's a few examples...

How do I prevent the spiders from indexing my page?

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

How do I prevent the spiders from following links on my page?

<meta name="robots" content="nofollow">

How do I get a search engine to index my page but not follow the links?

<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">

How do I get a search engine to completely ignore my page?

<meta name="robots" content="none">

What do I do if I want the search engines to index the page and follow all links?

Don't add a robots meta tag. The spiders will index and follow everything automatically.

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The basic structure of the name type meta tag is as follows:
(You'll note each is made up of name and content.)

<meta name="blah" content="blah blah blah">

Meta tags go in the head section of your document...

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="blah" content="blah blah blah">
</head>
<body>
Bulk of my page here
</body>
</html>

Here is more in-depth example:

  <TITLE>Title Of Your Page Here</TITLE>

  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="en-us">
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
  <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Keywords Go Here">
  <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="ALL">
  <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="Global">
  <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">
  <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright yoursite.com">
  <META NAME="author" CONTENT="you or yoursite.com">
  <META NAME="language" CONTENT="english">

  <META NAME="doc-type" CONTENT="Public">
  <META NAME="doc-class" CONTENT="Living Document">
  <META NAME="doc-rights" CONTENT="Copy Written Work">


So .. basically .. meta tags can go from simple to fancy.


Hope this helps a little ...

[Michael Mayhew]

Started using Wordpress for almost all my sites.
with the following plug-ins...
All-In-One-SEO
Google Sitemaps
& the time and day perma link structure.

[Gordon Bland]

Performing SEO is only going to go so far towards getting you more traffic. If you want more traffic then you also need to implement a back link building strategy to get yourself quality back links. Perform some SEO on your 10 sites and then concentrate on backlinks and you'll see your traffic increase immensely.

[eknefelt]

That's really helpful! Thank's a lot!

[abelace]

Performing on page optimization is only one part of the story. And I found out that having your keyword you want to rank for in your title is very important. The other part is backlink building. The latter is more critical as far as Google is concerned. I have a site that ranks on first page for some keywords but the content is not fantastic. Backlinks play an important role for this site. Another factor that most people don't talk about is the age of domain. The older it is the better it is as far as SERP ranking is concerned.

[johndavid]

HI NICE WORK LetterMall... THANKS FOR SHARING..........