brotherhood_of_LAN - 8:09 pm on Feb 7, 2002 (gmt 0)

Tilt, thats about the best advice ive heard from anyone on here. Its probably the best 'trick' to get the visitors in. Content is king so they say.

Its more understandable the longer you work on your web site. First, you started on the homepage, essentially the core thinking of your site

From then on, your are producing more content related to that page, and pages related to these pages and so on.

Such is the case with my site, a biology site, which has countless issues that can be written about, and are needed by people who have online access

I switched from a free host and domain to a top level domain and had the ability to use databases and scripts

The extra tools I have to be harnessed on the server has meant that my link popularity increases by about 50% every month. This is from the following

1. About once a month I surf similar sites to mine, by looking up Google under "biology" and referencing my site to the webmaster. If they reply, and think a link would be suitable to my site, they get the opportunity of a reciprocal link if they ask for one, and I add it to my links search engine for biology related sites

2. The other links will come from other webmasters with "biology web sites" who feel my site would be an addition to the links they offer....

....So more content = more people referencing your content on the net. Moreover, since about 65% of people coming to your site are from search engines, more content means more listing on the engines

Like I say, my site looks at biology. I understand many webmasters on the forum offer more than informational content, but also sell products in their site. IMO this is what makes spam such as an issue (just look at all the other posts in the other forums) because of all the crude methods used to get "the eyeballs" looking at their product. Since I dont sell products I cant say much. Ive always thought paid listings on the smaller PPC search engines would be worth it because of the cheap keywords

well thats my $0.02 worth, all in all, working on your site can only be a good thing, keep working on it then the search engines will reward you later (and more links to your site). You cant control your competitors, either start doing what they do or do something better :P