sfoRather than code from scratch < Smiling_Guy > 2010-02-09 12:32:43 use a CMS, like OpenCMS or Drupal.
Drupal 7 is coming out shortly, and looks to be much less painful than Drupal 6. Focus your additional energies on SEO & other emarketing skills.
As for learning, it all depends on your learning style. Personally, I'm a "give me a project and I'll figure it out" type, but maybe you prefer guided classroom learning. Lots of resources for "Drupal Tutorial" though.
manNeed Help learning SEO < Addamroy > 2010-02-06 16:48:19 I really need help learning SEO. I have a couple websites and I'm trying to learn it but I come to alot of technical questions. I'm not looking for a link to an SEO program affiliate sale. I'm looking from honest help one man to another. I'm willing to help out on my end for some information. Thanks alot, email me if this is something you wouldn't mind helping out with.
Addamroy@yahoo.com
sfoBest place to advertise a web design/development < Shurka > 2010-02-05 21:33:54 firm.
Hi, I am looking for more ways to advertise my web development business online. We currently do quite well but we are always looking for new ways to promote our site. We are looking for business owners that are already searching for a web site or related service. Any ideas or proven results from past experience would be very helpful. We already are familiar with SEO and SEM we are looking for specific websites which you have tried and know that our advertising dollars will be well spent on. Thanks
laxdid you submit it to the search engines? < rm_rf > 2010-01-26 19:26:22 Did you list it anywhere?
Are you making an effort to banner / link exchange with authorative sites?
Google SEO and get some ideas on improving the ranking.
It seems that more and more people are using very well written titles with little or no meta tags and getting very good page rankings.
You can also buy a high rank domain and push traffic to you from there (highly suspect and probably a grey area when it comes to search engine optimisation) but the ideas are out there.
nycyes and no < Smiling_Guy > 2010-01-17 22:48:51 i have some friends who are making their living on selling SEO snake-oil.
i also run a website that highly depends on 1st and 2nd page SEO (in a small vertical market, its not a HUGE challenge.)
anyways, MUCH of their advice is good. They also MISS a lot of stuff. However, my big learning is that you need to know your own code, you need to know your target search-phrases, and you need to care enough to watch it constantly.
Basically, there is no "seo silver bullit". its just doing the majority of the obvious things consistently and cleanly, and then monitoring it frequently.
nycHope we helped... < Briguy247 > 2010-01-17 21:43:57 Immensely. Thanks! Good to know that I have this option available to me.
As for SEO, I've got that covered already.
sleNot so much SEO, < seek3r > 2010-01-16 10:02:30 as they are paying for "sponsored links", actually. I have seen a couple of those paid spots be sites that had "questionable" code in them.
sfoIt totally depends < Smiling_Guy > 2010-01-08 10:14:44 you could use a website building tool, such as something that might come from your host, and you could do it yourself. Really. You could pay someone you know $99 to walk you through it.
However, if you want custom HTML, custom graphic design, on-going SEO, any technology interface (such as forms, email, databases, content updates, etc), even a 5-page site could get much more expensive.
As a rule, I personally don't bid on any project that's less than $5k, but you can probably find a local freelancer for much, much less.
sfoA solution....Suggest you read. < HighPlainsSystems > 2010-01-04 14:00:25 Let's start over and please correct me if my reading between the lines is off target.
1. You created a website. 2. You created products, pricing et al. 3. You have discovered you need a store.
If yes to this point here is what you need to think about.
1. Something that gives you a semblance of professionalism is required. 2. You want to keep your cost down. 3. You want the work to be at least semi-automated. Billing, maybe inventory, printing shipping labels, deposits to an account (i.e. PayPal).
If in agreement here's where you are at.
1. Forget about your "website" unless it also comes with a "FREE" eCommerce store (and the dollars you have already spent) or you can transfer it to a hosting company that gives away "free" an eCommerce storefront package.
2. If it does not, do not let someone suggest to you anything that costs more than $25.00 total or $20.00 a month additional. Run away and chalk it up to "the learning curve".
Here is what is available?
1. Free eCommerce storefronts with all the bells and whistles you could want for the price of hosting your site with them are available by the scores. Also you can buy 3rd software and integrate it with your website (not necessarily simple and typically more painful).
2. Has an eBay eCommerce store occurred to you? $15.95 a month (plus of course "FEES" but at least it is a known entity that a lot of people go to and it puts the products all over the net.
My suggestion....Get some sit down advice or read about eCommerce sites and the subject of SEO marketing on the Internet. There are 100 million sites out there. It's not necessarily simple...in fact the work begins after your site is up. Note: It will take you a few days to get acquainted with the subject matter.
If you let me know your email address I can send you an informational handout on Website design, development, pitfalls, etc. It may be of some help as well.
Hope this helps and my compliments to you for creating business locally, Steve / Downtown Lakin
sfoSEO Advice < ATJOwner > 2009-12-30 10:56:19 OK, didn't know this is not a good place to find an expert to help me out.
unkOrganic SEO § < Smiling_Guy > 2009-12-30 09:26:55
saclet me clarify < littlegreydash > 2009-12-22 17:34:12 The $299 is worthless because it doesn't drive more traffic to your website. It's simply a fee to be included in their directory. Nobody really uses the directory to find websites. Everyone uses organic listings. This is why Google never really developed on their directory (http://directory.google.com/). Whether or not Yahoo is still relevant is debatable. What isn't debatable is whether or not directories are relevant. They're not.
http://marketingtechblog.com/marketing/paid-directories-seo-yahoo-business/
sfoBlogs for an industry/ trade web site? < EUhandle > 2009-12-19 10:08:26 I have six Websites as No 1 on google for one of my businesses.
I am launching a new industry Website and will do all the usual SEO things.
But I know nothing about blogging.
Should I set up a "feeder" blog site i.e. industryblog.com and then optimise that for bloggers to com to and then use it as a feeder for my industry.com Website
Or
should I set up a blog section on my industry.com website
or
Should I merely start subscribing to industry specific blogs that exist already.
Your help would be appreciated.
Thanks
sfoPay per click < studyfreak > 2009-12-15 16:10:24 is something we tried before. Then I thought maybe it is my competition just making my bill higher. One SEO lady told me that Google Pay per click only counts the same IP address 2 times.
chiYikes! < joviyach > 2009-12-07 10:28:47 I am new to SEO and was using Joomla CMS for the site and forgot to change the meta description there. I am hoping I didn't leave out anything else, but I guess I will just have to wait and see.
Thanks
chiSEO question < joviyach > 2009-12-07 10:23:01 How long does it take on the average for Yahoo and Google to pick up a change in the meta description? I changed this on the 3rd and it still shows up with the old information.
Interestingly enough, Bing seems to have taken the description from a different place as it does not have the same information there.
sfoAdvide on Learning SEO < Jon99L > 2009-12-03 19:54:10 I am interested in learning how to do search engine optimization for my website. Any advice on where I can go to learn?
sfoIts not only adding CSS... < Smiling_Guy > 2009-11-29 18:36:55 ...but taking away all the "street" HTML that is likely driving your site now. Just because it renders, does not mean its done correctly.
stop using td for layout.
stop putting formatting in your html.
learn some basic SEO.
switch your doctype to trans, or strict.
get it to validate on w3c.
recognize that if you do these things, you'll lose IE5, and some parts of IE6. older browsers just can't hang with good, modern code.
you'll find your code gets really lightweight, and your website will perform MUCH better.
sfoand miss out on SEO < Smiling_Guy > 2009-11-19 20:28:16 text-in-graphics doesn't enable any SEO.
detSEO < AgentKeech > 2009-11-17 13:05:16 Search Engine Optimization, it's a very complicated system but there are some rather basic things everyone should do.
So you're looking at generating $600 a week?
dethelp < 96MercuryVilliager > 2009-11-17 06:18:56 in answers to ur question.
i want to be able to make enough to quit my pt job at first. then make more.
whats SEO?
i target many types of ppl.
my avg impressions r 2,900 a day.
ang clicks r 7 a day.
detAdWords: < AgentKeech > 2009-11-16 19:30:45 It's not really designed for fast, easy money despite what the spam campaigns may say. There is a minimum 90 day holding period and without hundreds of views per day you won't see more than a dollar a day.
A few questions:
What are your expectations for your website?
Have you done any SEO?
What is your web traffic target?
How many visitors do a you get per day?
You can email me the answers if you would rather not post them here.
sfoMake your own website: < AgentKeech > 2009-11-16 19:27:15 If you create your own contact website (ie. Contains you Name and contact info) you should be able to SEO out craigslist for the first few pages.
laxGood SEO rankings = < pcd0c > 2009-11-14 22:24:54 3 Things:
-Keywords in metadata on each page
-External Links (to your site from other sites)
-Time & Hits (the more popular you are over time, the lower your page number on search engine rankings)
For $500 / month:
Do all of the above first. Then check into SEO optimization companies like Orange Soda. Also, check into Google Analytics.
laxorganic SEO § < Smiling_Guy > 2009-11-14 17:27:36