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My Wife and I have started a new site. We feel like we have great unique content (100 pages to start) that will help sell our products while being informative. Here's the deal..... we are not webmasters but we're trying to learn. So we have started by hiring a reputable firm to do the site development for us. I basically told them to follow some of the golden rules that I have read here, plus all of the content is keyword rich and good (At least I think it is..lauhging). So in a roughly six weeks we are going to have a site, product and labor...but no customers....(laughing again).
So I'm seeking out SEO ideas that my wife and I can do during our first six months to improve visitors to our site. If anyone know of a structured post it would be appreciated, plus please keep in mind we are newbies so I guess simple is good for us.....
Thanks,
Mark
[edited by: caveman at 9:37 pm (utc) on Nov. 19, 2005]
[edit reason] Removed specifics, per TOS [/edit]
Have you considered an e-newsletter? This has worked well for us. The user base opts in from your home page, you create good relevant content on a regular basis, send it out and also post to your website. The most important thing is content.
If your site is not designed correctly for SEO (i.e. text links, non-graphic buttons, dynamic database, etc.) you will have difficulty ever achieving good organic rank.
Getting new customers is excellent, but if you can retain existing customers ... even better. Obviously you first have to build this customer base, but keeping a contactable note of their details is a great start.
As for SEO; A lot of the comments / debates on this site do make sense. Lord knows, I have been part of some of them.
However, I tend to find they are between people with quite an indepth knowledge of SEO.
For people just starting out, I would advise that rather than getting bogged down on ways to avoid "Sandboxes" et al, you should instead firstly concentrate on the absolute basics - titles, meta information, page content, clean coding, robots.txt, google sitemaps etc.
Once all this is in place, then more in depth analysis should begin.
Hope this helps.
