No problem, am glad that its a good list
I was reading an article the other day about how google rank your page and how certain things give them an indication of potential spamming. One of the points that was noted was the amount of back links being added during a period of time. So a significant amount of back linking in a short period of time may not go in your favour, so i would recommend adding back links on a regular and steady pace.
I use a free service for exchanging back links. its called
Link Market - Free Link Exchange, Link Swap and Link Trade Directory. check it out its a good source and they allow you to have 5 link requests every 24hrs. Have had some good relevant ones from there.
Another good way to get back links is by writing articles on sites which allocate the author of the article a section to write about themselves and provide a link to their URL. At the moment I'm only using ezine. but i know that there are some other great ones out there as well. I'm also presuming, but don't know, that the articles would benefit you more if you write an article which relates to your website so the same contents theme will carry over and will therefore get picked up by the robot.
There are great sites out there that help beginners in diy seo like myself and have stumbled across a few sites that i use frequently. I was wondering if some of you guys would mind sharing a few seo must have websites or webmaster websites which will be of benefit to us. For example for my meta tags and description i use a web-page analyzer which tells you if the contents of your page and title match your meta tags and what sort of relevancy they have. I find them to be very useful but don't know if its necessary.
One article i read advised not to bother with the meta tag keywords and only concentrate on the description as search engines no longer consider keywords due to them being used for spam purposes in the past.Then i read another article which advised to fill them in as they are required by some search engines. As your fully aware the web is a sea of information but then to sort out the good info from the bad or not needed info it can get difficult.So if you know of any sites that you refer back to frequently for seo or webmaster tools then i'm sure your list will help a lot of us here.
What i have noticed on many websites is that different pages within the site have different page ranks. Is this because the site has been concentrating on back links for certain pages and not for others? Ive also come ac cross sites which have more or less the same rank all the way through,well i think i came across one which i particularly paid attention to. What would he have done to his site to get that steady flow of page rank on each page.
There was an offer that i came across promising first page position for a certain keyword in search engines. The offer was a free trial for the 1st 100 customers so i gave them a call and they told me to email a little description about the website with the kinds of keywords that related to my site. They then told me that they would contact me when the site reached the desired location. I still haven't heard from them its been about 4 months now. However what i have noticed is that i have many back links to my home page from forums, blogs and directories which i didn't create myself. I also have google alerts set up for my URL which sends me alerts so i follow them and find a random post with a description about my services and a link back to my site.
I'm just not sure if this is helping my site though.If they are using URL submit tools that injects the URL to a 1000 or so places some being of no relevance to your site then this could be considered spamming.
Ive only just started to work on my site properly and spend time educating myself then experimenting on the site. I know back links and the optimisations that we make to sites can take a few months to see the benefits but am dreading the fact that i might be doing it wrong. I don't have any page rank on any of my pages. My URLs only been running for about 5 months and my sites changed 2 servers so i know this looks bad on page ranking. But I've only decided to work on the site now for web traffic. Before i was using it for a face on the Internet and my customers, who we stay in contact with by phone, can refer to new products,product descriptions and pictures. We also kept stock availability on it. Since then i lost the website. It was being hosted on a friends account who also designed it for me. His hosting account got hacked then got banned for 3 strikes or something so they kept all the files and he didn't have any backups. So i decided to build it myself and take it on as a project. Its fun I'm actually enjoying putting in the time to read articles and experimenting.
Must be boring you guys
cheers for reading
