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We have 3 sites and 3 blogs all charitable (for the homeless – I’m a Social Worker).
Planning
• research the keyword/s phrases people search for (Wordtracker / Overture / Google Adwords)
• design your site to compete on what people search for
• consider semantically related terms and repeat e.g. search for ~keyword -keyword
Structure
• use your money phrase in the domain name and other pages as so: /keyword-phrase.html
• target one phrase per page (your money term on the homepage)
Internally
• use the anchor text you want to rank on
• use title, h1 etc, prominence, proximity, frequency… of keyword phrase
Directories
• list in dmoz, yahoo, msn small business directory
• list in high pr directories (choose the category with fewer links on the page)
• list in free directories
• ultimately choose the category with your money (or semantically related) term in the title
Locally
• Search for all sites in serps, allinanchor, allintitle, allinurl.
• Target links from these sites as #1 priority
• Prioritize them based on relationship between number of links on the page and PR of the page (consider also their standing in the serps)
• See: Topic Sensitive Pagerank, Local Rank.
Exchanges
• Treat non-related exchanges as a chance to boost the PR of your links page (adding value to link partners but not much else) do them based on the return you are going to get in pure PR v. links on the page (see compar.com ’s article on ‘Google Pagerank and how to get it’)
• Use your key phrase in the title of your links page to add value to exchanges (not just ‘Links to other sites’)
• Don’t name your links pages links.htm to appease those who worry this incurs a penalty.
• Be personal, professional, and specific in emails inviting exchanges
• Don’t automate exchanges, do them manually
Multiple sites
• If you have more than one site, or sub-domains, or a blog, host the on separate c-class ip blocks and preferably with different hosts.
• Don’t interlink all, within one site link to a site about ‘topic’ link from this page to your other destination site / page/s.
Articles
• When doing press releases refer to the site
• Where possible write articles to submit to other sites which produce a page with your keyword phrase in the title and a reference to your site.
General
• Keep all pages limited to 100 links
• Don’t use more than 3 commas in the description tag
• Don’t use more than 4 mentions of a word in keywords tag
• Keep keyword frequency below 7% max – look to the average for your competition in serps
• Don’t use duplicate content
OK, so there are plenty of other ‘how to’s’ but I think that covers most of my priorities. I guess my main strategy is to act as if local rank and topic sensitive PageRank are in effect.
The outcome of the above strategy has been successful for us to date in most regards, but for the really highly competitive terms though we are still plugging away.
Webmaster World seems to be ‘the’ place to seek such advice… what am I missing, doing wrong, or need to do more of?
Thanks in advance.
You seem to have it down pretty well. Maybe you could write a new book for O'reilly. "Everything You Need to Know About SEO in 1000 Words or Less" ;)
[edited by: martinibuster at 5:36 pm (utc) on Sep. 29, 2004]
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Is my 1 link going to be 1 of 30 total links (internal or external) or 1 of 130? They never tell you. Until I know how many total links on the page I can't calculate what my share of the PR will be.
- Thats pretty funny me writing an article on seo, [he says as he neals and hails the seo gods].
It's a trial-and-error game...
Best of luck! Looking at your job/task i hope all here will help to make it a success. Helping someone (homeless) that cannot take care for himself is a good thing not seeing often nowadays...
Hope you will succeed!
Very good point.
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[edited by: martinibuster at 4:14 pm (utc) on Oct. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] Please, no seo "resources" sites. Thx. [/edit]
