What do you need to know

SEbasic

I am trying to write some content for a new site that I am developing.

I need to know what SEO related things you guys would like to know about. That way I can write some answers to some questions.

It might take a while to post the answer but I will.

Cheers Guys

(please don't post any questions unless they are sensible and related. lol)

rallyfan

what about whats the best way to do seo.

hope thats any good

SEbasic

SEO is such a huge subject that It is not really practical for me to write a complete overview, as by the time I finish it in the detail I want, things will have all changed.

I know of a few really good posts that I can give you the URL for though.

This is really good.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm

SEbasic

No more questions?

Poor show guys... lol

rallyfan

not enough people have been on yet.

only 5 diff members since the post been up.

Python

getting listed in search engines is quite an important part of SEO, in fact thats what its all about. if you like you can use the list at http://www.devdreams.com/promote.php

if you are going to use it please link back (small text link somewhere)

SEbasic

Sorry Python, I have to disagree.

getting listed in search engines is quite an important part of SEO, in fact thats what its all about.

Yes, getting listed is important. But it is nowhere as important as having a well SEO'd site TO LIST.

CannonBallGuy

SEO is Search Engine Opt. yeah?
So SEO is about getting your site to come up on the first page of a seach engines results or whatever....
Google ranks pages using the following:
. Link Popularity (Their Page rank...)
. Page Title
. Keyword Density
And since Yahoo uses Googles results if you have a lot of related sites with a high PR linking to you, a relevant page title and a keyword density of about 10% you should come up quite high on Google and yahoo searches... lol

Python

ok i kinda worded my post wrong...

what im trying to say is that the main goal of SEO is to get high ranks in the search engines. yes the methods for doing this is important but the final goal is to get a high lisiting.

SEbasic

CBG,

Yeah, basically that's it. There a hundreds of things that can influence a sites listing in the SE's along with what you mentioned there, but yeah, that's it.

BTW, Yahoo started producing it's own search results about a month ago

Sorry P. Didn't mean to be pedantic

Python

ye i was subscribed to this webmaster news thing a little while ago(until the spammed me) and in a newsletter it said that yahoo was now independant or something like that.

SEbasic

Yeah. There has been talk recently however, of Yahoo starting to use Google's results again.

Nothing confirmed. Officially, Yahoo still use there own results

Python

so is yahoo run by google? i mean is it owned by the same owners as google?

and then theres the question who owns google. is it microsoft?

SEbasic

Make it a new post...

Python

he he. woops. even i forgot about that, lol

kink

how about a algorithm in page desing that works

jmc

i entered my site into most of the list there are prob. a million tho and entered this one into which ever u wanted i cant rem which u said u wanted me to enter but i did it! np

pfgannon

say what?
could you make that last post clearer i couldnt really understand what you meant