There is so much more to SEO than what you get from most articles.
Having now started to build my own Search Engine bot, I am beginning to
create formulas to find what I want.
The results I get from an index tells me so much.
I can target a page that has what I want and I often do not get what I
want from KW.
SW
On 11/13/2012 10:12 AM, brynk wrote:
I have enjoyed reading this thread especially since the information
given is not only very useful but also it is honest and ethical. What
has not been mentioned are the unethical ways to get higher ratings
and I greatly appreciate the community for not suggesting these other
methods. I recently had an incident with a new customer who had his
site hosted by a Company in the mid-west. He was not happy with
service so he called me. I created a new Joomla CMS site from the
content and design he was using with this other company. When the new
site went live, I noticed something pretty fascinating. You could do
a google search with legitimate search terms that you would expect to
use to find his business. When you got Google search results you also
got hits for URL's that made no sense at all such as example:
http://(Company Name)/Rhianna.html or http://(Company Name)/
Christiana Milan.htm. There were literally 15-20 hits listed in the
google search results that made no sense at all. Of course, these hits
were broken once we went live with the new site. I did not create
redirects on the new site for these bogus url's but did for legitimate
ones.
My client was paying for SEO and high google ratings from the previous
web company. I had to explain to him why I could not guarantee those
same results. I will do all I can to get a client listed as high as
possible in search engines but I will not do the unethical redirects
and garbage that I see people do to get higher search results. Some of
these SEO Companies are just snake oil salesmen. I will not charge
and/or promise something that is basically undeliverable through
honest means. Luckily, my new client appreciated my honesty and is not
interested in higher search engine rankings through unethical tricks.
My two cents
Bob Rynkiewicz
On 11/6/2012 11:30 AM, Geoffrey Schaller wrote:
I've been trying to get my site to appear in Google when searching
for certain key words, and I seem to be getting stumped - I'm showing
up on page 2, not near the top. Posts by myself or friends about the
site appear before the site itself in the search results.
The key phrases I am looking for are "larp nj" - where the term
"larp" is the kind of activity the site is promoting (it's a kind of
game / sport), and it's based in New Jersey. Searching on "larp nj"
turns up all our competitors, but not our own site.
I've designed the site with a SEO-friendly template, filled in site
keywords, made sure the front page has text and isn't just a splash
page, etc. - but I can't seem to get the site to come up on results
for those key words.
What am I missing? How do I get those words to trigger a better
result with my site?
The site itself is: http://www.knightrealms.com
(The odd thing is... we're one of the biggest games out of all
our competitors, DESPITE this ranking thing. It's more a matter of
technical frustration at this point than a marketing issue... ;-) )
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