New site,...working on Validation and SEO

[mcohen]

New site,...working on Validation and SEO. Paid Google ads just to get a showing for a while,...submitted by hand to most major engines. Have robot.txt, file on server accepting all. I think we have a good document type.... I have use SEO doctor to Optimize to specific keywords,...uh what else? Oh I am totaly a newbie,...we put this page together in 2 months, and we had to learn all the softwares,...and go through all the errors, that you can possibly make to get here. We are happy, but know we still have a lot of work to do...We did paid inclusion from Inktomi (lycos) twice....the first time we actually showed up within 72 hours,...not as high as we want,...but at least we showed up...the most recent,...we haven't shown up at all..(different url)
I (we) are lost at this point...any suggestions...?

www.ncs-us.com


M.C.

[cbp]

Main thing to get good ranking at the moment is keyword in anchor text of lots of incoming links. Everything you have done so far will count for nothing without this.

CBP

[fathom]

Originally Posted by cbp

Main thing to get good ranking at the moment is keyword in anchor text of lots of incoming links. Everything you have done so far will count for nothing without this.

CBP

While in principle will agree with cbp but it is not "just the link anchor"... more to the point "a link" is simply expanding on "content" elsewhere (no matter which way) - thus a link from a sock website to another sock website gains more than a car site to a sock site using the precise same link anchor (and all other things being equal.

This isn't suggesting "only" gaining links from same theme sites (get links from where you can) just pointing out that just any link isn't better than on topic page links.

Lots of food for thought here...

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=13731

[webmasterbrain]

I think you might have gone overboard on your homepage, having a long, meaningless list of keywords pasted at the base of you page, looks very spammy, and might put potential customers off. Instead you should work out ways to better combine your keywords with the content of your site, think about losing a lot of the images for text, and replacing them with pure text, It might mean less control over your font styles, but it'll play better with Search Engines.

Also make sure you target the right keywords, there is no point ranking high for key-terms no one ever searches for.