What’s the best (and cheapest) way to have keywords from my site put on search engines?
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Here’s a good starting point. A whole bunch of resources.
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Dan,
Thanks for this great link. For people who like videos, I’ve been watching Matt Cutts from Google talk about SEO. Heres a link to his videos on YouTube: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=matt+cutts+seo&emb=0&aq=2&oq=matt+cutt#
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I wouldn’t focus to just have a high amount of keywords for search engines; your contents must be appealing to the intended target group - that should be your main goal.
Generally I feel people looking for new SEO techniques better should add more quality contents to their websites. I never (really never) saw a website that was successful on the long run just by following the advise of these SEO gurus 
However for getting some ideas for keywords, my favorite tool is the keyword research feature of Google AdWords: http://www.google.com/sktool/
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Thanks all… I’ve learned a lot about keywords. My goal, however, is to get my keywords out there on the search engines. Rather than waiting for them to find my site (the search spiders), I’d like to jumpstart my site some way. I’d heard that it could take months/years for the engines to find my site if I do nothing… true/false?
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No, it definitively won’t take months or even years to get listed. When I created a website and am asked by the client to do some search engine registrations, it usually takes a few days to get the site listed.
Of course this doesn’t mean that the website is listed as intended for the desired keywords… there is often some additional work required (more relevant contents, changes in existing contents, etc.). Sometimes the search engines adjust this automatically, so just be patient for a while.
I suggest that you look for the ten most popular search engines and register your site there manually. For example, Google takes registrations here: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Other search engines will include your site automatically once it is listed at the top engines (in some cases these smaller engines are even using the same data sources as the big players).
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it could take months/years for the engines to find my site
More like weeks
Getting some inward links to your site going from some popular blogs will help the process.
As said before Keywords are not the be all and end all of this - the chances of your keywords being unique enough are small.
David
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Thanks again. If any of you are interested, here’s the site…
It’s only temporary until I get something more attractive up there. Customer only wanted me to use a graphic ad that he’d done a few years ago. I added the BS below it so there would be some keyword search capability.
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Yes there is the problem - there is nothing to jump start - you need to get a decent amount of relevant content up there as well.
David
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Just saw that it is a frame based layout. I would strongly avoid such layouts due to problems with web robots trying to retrieve contents. Not sure if search engines can handle such pages in a better way now. Since I just don’t like frames I never did care about
When viewing the base site at http://mysite.verizon.net/beaconhilgs/ I noticed that the important meta tag “description” is missing. This is used by most search engines to show an excerpt of the contents on results pages. Also your all-capital page title should be redone (search engines dislike capital words - like most users
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@waltd: Thanks for the hint with the tab action, I’ll give it a try.
Do you have an idea why my rollover button refuses to work with the Carousel button action ?
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Just saw that it is a frame based layout.
Not a power FP user… how to convert to non-frames using FP Pro?
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Not a power FP user… how to convert to non-frames using FP Pro?
How about to take the content page and make it a stand-alone page… that should be an issue of copy&paste only.
But I don’t know how you built that site exactly, so I can’t give a more detailed answer. Maybe someone else.
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Just imported the large graphic (large ad in background)… then added an html text blurb at the bottom & colored the background. That’s all.
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What you describe shouldn’t generate a frame based layout. Maybe you created a frameset using the menu page/frame/ ?
I think the website is small enough to start from scratch again:
Open the current project file. Create a new project. Then drag and drop the graphic and the text from the current to the new document.
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I think the problem is with the hosting rather than the page construction.
Get yourself some decent webspace - this sort of hosting automatically whacks it into a frameset.
David
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The price is right, though… comes with Verizon’s triple play & “free” web space.
;=)
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Now this is where I disagree - with 'free" web space you are usually
short-changed! You end up in a straightjacket twice. One, what you are
allowed to do is often very restricted (as being forced into frames)
and, two, you are soon driven nuts trying to design within those very
constraints.
Web hosting is so cheap , these days, that you can get a copious
platform for relative peanuts and all you’ll ever need for a few
sheckles more. Please don’t devalue your design and web site
production efforts ( and capability) by going for “free”. Especially
if you want to make them business worthy.
Minor rant over - and back to the original topic - I know you are
restricted by the original graphic to get the site going, but you
could quickly add a second page of content using the various product
logos and a brief description, plus an enquiry form or “click me for
information” button.
Just an idea - remember it’s good content that drives you up search
engines, for whatever keyword is most used.
Colin.
On 15 Nov 2009, at 04:33, peterpica wrote:
The price is right, though… comes with Verizon’s triple play &
“free” web space.
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It’s always the same: You get what you pay for. If it’s free… well
And we should not forget that this is a business website we talk about. So it doesn’t look very professional to have a free solution for hosting.
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Point(s) well taken…
However, I think this is adequate insofar as customer only wants a “point of presence” for bragging rights, among other things. I’ve another "live"one that I’m working on in the meantime… this one will be the real site once it’s completed. Have to add more pix & links to logos, etc.
http://mysite.verizon.net/peterpica/bht/
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