I am most interested in the ability of the meta tag in the coding of a website. I mean, yes your URL name, domain name and other details are important, but is the meta tag the most important part of SEO on a website? It seems like it is a good start -- I don't know enough about SEO yet to really understand it completely.
The Google article explains a lot in terms how to create distinctive tags and wording to help your website be found -- for example, avoid "using lengthy URLs with unnecessary parameters and session IDs", "choosing generic page names" and "using excessive keywords", I find to be very helpful.
hierarchy of your website is important too -- navigation of your website is essential.
At www.seo.com, I looked at a blog section of the website, which talks a lot about SEO, and ways to better use it as a resource.
This one blog I read, talks about how buying paid links to help your SEO is a bad idea. Instead, it is smarter to invest in user generated content and contributions, a community manager to help manage your website within the online community and sponsoring events, according to Greg Shuey on www.seo.com -- "SEO blog" section.
Also, check out www.seoadministrator.com to look at different tools that are offered to help your SEO. According to the website, they offer software I believe called "SEO Administrator" with tools such as: "The ranking monitor utility", "The link exchange tool" and "The log analyzer". The log analyzer tool is interesting because it looks at numbers of users on your website and log-files. This SEO Administrator suite looks really helpful and informational to bettering your website with SEO.
Like I said prior, I am still learning SEO. Check these two websites out everyone and let me know what you think.
Until Next time --
One question I had that I think I might have missed the answer to in the reading was exactly how you go about getting a url for a Web site? Is it just something that you're able to assign when you put it up on the internet or is it something you code in? I'll have to figure that out.
ReplyDeleteI think that blog you read makes an interesting point about buying paid links being a bad plan. I think I agree with that, especially with the huge, growing emphasis on user-generated content. Giving your users a lot of different options for getting involved and learning or sharing information is probably a very valuable and effective way of making sure your Web site gets more hits. Word of mouth about your site and how people can get involved in the topic they're seeking information about would help draw a lot more interest and use of your Web site.
I agree with a lot of what you said. All of these complex terms, like meta tag and stuff that I have never heard of are important. But, I also think a lot of this stuff is just common sense. No one wants to go to a website that is poorly designed or hard to navigate. People want simplicity packaged with authenticity. You just have to know when to be simple and when to try to add creativity.
ReplyDeleteI agree that buying paid links to help your website is a bad idea. Its not like the audience doesn't realize what sponsored links are. I've found that there is a reason why companies have to pay for that positioning, because they're a suspect company to begin with.
ReplyDeleteYou have a point, but when is the Internet ever going to be profitable for the majority of individuals, who are not living in palaces near Silicone Valley? Since SEO is a kind of marketing strategy, maybe the time will come when companies are forced to invest in certain kinds of SEOs or hire technicians to direct and monitor the traffic flowing into their site.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it is best to create good content that pops up early in searches, but lots of good companies are paying for paid links. I'd want every opportunity (within a reasonable budget) for potential consumers to see my product.
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