google friendly

best ways to make a site ready for google

[healthgal]

Hi i'm in the health site and was looking for a discussion on how to make a site google friendly. My site has a pr5 and lots of content. However, i do have around 30 links out to other health related sites.

Is linking out OK? What are the some of other factors to assure google will like the site in the future.

thanks everyone
heathgal

[thunderpaste]

Hi, The single most important thing you can do is go afdter relevant links from other sites.

You want to find areas on other sites where a link to your site would be helpful. Not neccecarily links pages. A link in the middle of a paragraph with one or more keyword phrases as part of the link is best.

Also try to reduce the file size of your pages if possible. Google likes small pages.

You can also use the tools on the front page of webmaster world to look for potential problems with your pages.

Use a robots.txt to keep Google out of folders that contain things you don't want indexed. Especially if you have old doorway pages or duplicate content.

[Nick_W]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Healthgal!

Yep, incoming links is crucial. I've found that it doesn't hurt wheather they're on topic though as long as the link text contains terms you target.

I've also had good success with good code structure and light page. IE:

<title>keyword keyword</title>
<h1>keyword keyword</h1>
<p>blah keyword blah</p>
etc....

Therea are ways of intergrating keywords into key areas of pages without compromising content. It's part of the whole SEO thing...

Also, if you can drop table based layouts in favour of CSS layouts Google just loves it ;)

Don't worry too much about linking out, it's good for your users and shows a certain authority in your field. And if you have that, people will link to you.....

Nick

[edited by: Nick_W at 4:08 pm (utc) on Nov. 2, 2002]

[Birdman]

I would definately try to get them to link back to you, if they aren't already. Here's a good little thread [webmasterworld.com] and there are a multitude of threads on the subject. Try using the site search.

Good luck!

[crash]

Hello HealthGal, Welcome to WebmasterWorld :) A great place to start is the Google Knowledge Base [webmasterworld.com] :)

[healthgal]

Hey thanks everyone, we were thinking of using sub domains for the different departments. how does google handle the sub domains.
healthgal

[GoogleGuy]

Just fine. My piece of advice: look at your site with a text browser like Lynx and make sure you can reach all of your pages. If Lynx can't, a search engine spider probably can't.

[Mohamed_E]

Hi Healthgal, and welcome to WebmasterWorld.

The link crash pointed you to is excellent, you may also want to read Brett's Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com] posting. Most of what he writes applies to other search engines as well.

[healthgal]

Thanks Googleguy, will do. Does that mean only text links are can be spidered?

Healthgal

[healthgal]

sorry about the typo

Thanks Googleguy, will do. Does that mean only text links can be spidered?
Healthgal

[Nick_W]

As Crash said, The Google Knowledge Base [webmasterworld.com] is a good place to start. If you don't find what you need there. Try a site search....

Nick

[NFFC]

healthgal try this [delorie.com...]

[excell]

Wow thank for the blast from the past there! Oh I remember the Bobby days so well too.
too cool, it even outputs forms in print friendly style!

[Helpmebe1]

i would think ignore the window should be this big on their though as many peopes resolutions have changed now

[healthgal]

hey googleguy and NFFC
The text editor was a great idea have not stopped learning since i joined this group this morning.

healthgal