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steeringman
Joined: Feb 25, 2008
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Posted: 02/25/2008 12:54 pm
Well first off let me say hello to all the regulars because I am a first timer .
I am pretty new to the whole website design process but was asked by a friend of the family to create a site for their already strong local business. I submitted the site a few months ago to most search engines through my web host, and am a paying PPC customer on both Google and Yahoo. I have seen some progress, but still have two questions for you all.
First, Is there anyway for my site to come up in the top 10 search results in either Google or Yahoo without paying the big bucks? It is visible some times on the sidebar and at the top because I PPC, but how do I get it to come up at the top of the list with the other websites?
Second, I have created a few adwords keywords lists that vary from 100-200 words. Is this way too much or not enough? I just put in most any word that I could think of and am not sure what is a good amount.
Thanks for your help
SteeringMan
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 02/25/2008 01:00 pm
Site design and content gets you rankings. Title and meta description gets your entry noticed in the SERPs. Site content and usability leads to sales.
You should be running an analytics package on your site to look at what your visitors do, not just chasing rankings.
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steeringman
Joined: Feb 25, 2008
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Posted: 02/25/2008 04:24 pm
Great thanks for the help g1smd...
Unfortunately I am really new to this (like I said) and didn't even know really what meta tags were until now. I looked a few things up and now I'll be adding description and keyword meta tags to my site...
Now this brings me to a new question. Should I have these meta tags on every one of my pages or just the main ones?
Thanks
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g1smd
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Posted: 02/25/2008 06:25 pm
Check back through the hundreds of previous postings to pick up all the knowledge you can. There's ten years of information in these forums.
The title tag is very important, as is the meta description. You can ignore the keywords tag. The other two should be on every page, but each one should be different, describing only what that particular page is all about.
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animated3d
Joined: Dec 22, 2005
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Posted: 02/25/2008 06:48 pm
instead of thinking of the 100-200 words maybe its easier to use the google adwords keyword tool to see which keywords are used the most regarding your niche and to rank well organic you need goof title,meta,content and links from related websites
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kynduvme
Joined: Apr 18, 2001
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Posted: 02/26/2008 10:04 am
also, generate an xml sitemap (search it on google there are many free web sites to do this) and set up your site on google sitemaps and yahoo site explorer.
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