Thank you Dave That was a wealth of information! I'll get my website so that it is mobile phone friendly.
All of my animations are animated gifs. Is that better, worse, or indifferent to flash videos when it comes to Google ranking? Cheers Donald 0423 102 090 This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Un-authorizeduse of this email is subject to penalty of law. So there! On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:56 AM, David Andersson <[email protected]>wrote: > > In message < > cac+ykpu_bbrvddjrv4sft9a6fhs21cznnh0_wegbdtmpime...@mail.gmail.com> > Donald Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I want to thank you all for your help > > > > My website sundialsforlearning.com is now W3C > > > > Can anyone help me with SEO? I want to get a better ranking with Google > > > > > If you had asked the question, say, 6 months ago - then I would have > suggested > contacting Bob Kellogg (www.sundials.org), or Doug Hunt (www.sunclocks.com > ). > > Both those people (especially Doug Hunt) could probably have given you > lots of > good advice, if you want to increase any 'Search Engine' rankings on > "Google". > > > However, after Google's recent "Panda" and "Penguin" updates to their > (secret) > algorithms they use to allocate placings - it is no longer as easy as > before > to achieve a high ranking by, say, getting lots of links to your website. > > I think Google realised that some SEO people were 'manipulating' things, by > underhand (sometimes known as 'Black Hat') techniques, and decided to > totally > change the ranking algorithms to create a "level playing field" for > everyone. > > > For example, Google now seems to give a better ranking to websites with a > lot > of 'outgoing' links to other sites - rather than based on volume of > incoming > links, and I can see that this does make some sense if you think about it. > > People used to get 'reciprocal' links, by saying "you link to me, and I > will > link to you" - but doing that just cancelled-out the benefits of such > links, > which is not what Google intended when it started about fifteen years ago. > > Say a website has lots of incoming links, but none outgoing. From Google's > point of view, it is a 'dead end' (no other website to visit from that > one). > > Google wants links to follow, to increase its database of web pages - and > so > in this example, above, that "selfish" website will now be ranked > downwards. > > > I think that any honest SEO company would tell you "we just do not know how > to proceed at the moment", until clues might eventually start to filter out > 'on the grapevine' from people who try new Search Optimization strategies. > > All I could suggest is have 'good content' (whatever that means!) on pages, > plus avoid things like "Flash" videos since Google cannot read these in the > same way as text wording. You have already taken a first step, by getting > your website validated to W3C standards - but also make sure this works as > intended on mobile telephones, because there now seems to be a fast-growing > trend away from desk (or even lap-top) computers, to 'hand-held' devices. > > Hoping this helps, > > Dave Andersson. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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