Trellix

Seo

[uniquepeek]

I am sorta new to all this webmaster stuff but started a site with the website builder Trellix on Domain Direct,(<snip>) and I wondered do the same rules apply to optimizing a site built with Trellix as the ones you pros build from scratch. Need to get optimized and not sure how. Each web page has a place in site properties for a description and keywords, is that all I need to do. I don't understand the part of putting meta tags on my site and know very little about html. I have been working on it almost a month and have yet to submit to the free search engines I am aware of. I wanted to maybe get off on the right foot. Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[edited by: trillianjedi at 12:34 pm (utc) on May 3, 2006]
[edit reason] No URL's please as per TOS [/edit]

[MichaelBluejay]

Hi, and welcome to WebmasterWorld.

I'm afraid you need to unlearn the myths you've heard.

(1) Submitting your site to the engines is unnecessary and a waste of time. The engines will find your site as long as any other site links to yours. (And if no one links to you, you're not going to rank well anyway.)

(2) Meta keywords have been obsolete for the better part of a decade now, they're a complete waste of time.

(3) Optimizing has nothing to do with what tools you use to create your site.

(4) The way to get good rankings is to stop thinking about rankings and work to make the best website you can. Great sites get great rankings. Lousy websites get lousy rankings. Simple as that.

Good luck!

[uniquepeek]

Thanks, you have sort of got me looking at this thing from a different prespective but it's hard to figure what all the screaming is about when it comes to SEO.

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, uniquepeek.

(2) Meta keywords have been obsolete for the better part of a decade now, they're a complete waste of time.

I wasn't so sure about that. I believe that may indeed be a misconception as well. I have heard it so often I asked in this recent discussion after I had read a recent article regarding the same. More reading here on META tags --Should we be using these? [webmasterworld.com]

[MichaelBluejay]

I said that Meta *keywords* are a waste of time. There are a couple of other Meta tags that are arguably useful, but even then not for SEO.

I've never used Meta keywords on my pages, and I have top rankings all over the search engines.

Any time spent focusing on tricks is better spent improving your site.