Making it easy for people to find what they are lookng for

[lovemark]

I have created a non commercial page at:
www.internationalmark.co.uk
which is basically a page called "interactive" with a short description and links to my other pages such as:
www.internationalmark.co.uk/jokes.html
www.internationalmark.co.uk/ranking.html
www.internationalmark.co.uk/wise.html
and a few others. They all have the same domain name, but are very different (jokes, famous quotes, football etc). Should I submit evry page individually to search engines, or just my main page with all the links?
I don't want to pay anything because I am doing it for the public and I am not making any money out of it.
My pages were quite well known under another name, but then I moved and had to change my server, so I got my own domain name. I know there are people out there looking for my pages. How can I help them find them? I have some links to my old pages. I contacted the owners but got no reply. They have not updated their pages for a while.
I hear a lot about RSS. I don't really know what it is. Would that help? Would it work on my pages? Would it make my pages look very different?

[MtraX]

Hi

You won't have to submit anything! The links on this forum will already cause your site to be crawled in time, so you just have to make sure you make proper use of heading tags, page titles and other basic SEO principles. If your site has enough quality content, it will start climbing in the search engines and draw more traffic. Update it regularly (weekly at least) and add more quality content. Also add your site to relevant directories for more backlinks and traffic.

I just had a look at your jokes log page. It's way too long. It would be better if you break it up into smaller sections, i.e. jokes_1.htm, jokes_2.htm etc or just as you like, as long as the pages don't exceed around 350-400 words. You can run your pages through many SEO tools out there. The following one should help:

http://www.manvish.com/eservices/seo/analyser.htm
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html - this page has hundreds of tools to check our pages...

Regards
MtraX

[ctabuk]

That is great advice, goes the same if you have a links page, keep it below 20 per page, and remember a new page is new content. Update, then update the updates. I now (thanks to faglork) have a news update page directly fed from Google Alerts, so my pages change daily, if not hourly.

[lovemark]

Originally Posted by MtraX

Hi

You won't have to submit anything! The links on this forum will already cause your site to be crawled in time, so you just have to make sure you make proper use of heading tags, page titles and other basic SEO principles. If your site has enough quality content, it will start climbing in the search engines and draw more traffic. Update it regularly (weekly at least) and add more quality content. Also add your site to relevant directories for more backlinks and traffic.

I just had a look at your jokes log page. It's way too long. It would be better if you break it up into smaller sections, i.e. jokes_1.htm, jokes_2.htm etc or just as you like, as long as the pages don't exceed around 350-400 words. You can run your pages through many SEO tools out there. The following one should help:

http://www.manvish.com/eservices/seo/analyser.htm
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html - this page has hundreds of tools to check our pages...

Regards
MtraX

Thank you for your advice. I have already made a few changes including a meta tag to allow robots. I am assuming this is a good idea. I agree with you about my jokes. I'll look into how I can put them into smaller sections, though if I don't have more than 500 words on each page, I would need over 70 pages. Don't you think that is a bit too much?

[MtraX]

Hi

The more pages the better. Just remember to have a proper menu structure so that users (and search engine spiders) can easily get around in your website.

Regards
MtraX

[lovemark]

Originally Posted by ctabuk

That is great advice, goes the same if you have a links page, keep it below 20 per page, and remember a new page is new content. Update, then update the updates. I now (thanks to faglork) have a news update page directly fed from Google Alerts, so my pages change daily, if not hourly.

I would have thought that having a lot of words on the ame page would increase the chance of being found on a search engine. What do you mean that you have a new update page dierctly fed from google alerts? Do you mean that your page is updated automatically and google let's you know when this happens?

[MtraX]

He's probably parsing the RSS feed, so it means that when his page is called up, it's automatically updated with the latest info from Google. I did that with one of my blogs which I used as content management for feeding news into a site we did a while ago. It works quite well.

[kgun]

<quote>
I hear a lot about RSS. I don't really know what it is. Would that help? Would it work on my pages? Would it make my pages look very different?
</quote>

Look here:
http://www.multifinanceit.com/RSS.htm

Macromedia specialist:
Dynamic RSS feed for your site.
http://robgt.com/

Technical explanation:
Heading Learn RSS.
http://www.w3schools.com/


Kjell Gunnar Bleivik
http://www.multifinanceit.com/
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