Pay for ranking search engines are a highly effective way to attract inexpensive, targeted traffic to your website. Traditional search engines require you to submit your website, and then may take anywhere from several weeks to many months to list your website. And, there are no guarantees that your site will appear anywhere on the first 1000 pages!
Reader Response to Search Engines and Font Tags
In a recent SEO Corner, a reader asked Shari Thurow how search engines are affected by various body elements. Web designer Lee Roberts offers some additional comments to her response.
Shaddow Domain Peer Review – Optimize For Search Engines
Julie makes a common mistake in thinking that being “listed on several search engines” will bring her traffic. A site can be listed in every search engine in the world but not have enough traffic. Being listed and being found when people look for the service or goods you sell are two entirely different things.
SEO Corner – Search Engines and Font Tags
Question: Since Netscape handles the spacing around heading tags (<H1>,<H2>, etc.) differently from IE, I have been forced to use large font tags (<font size=”6″>) and bold them, so I can keep the spacing consistent, cross-browser.
Search Engines vs. Database-Driven Websites – Optimizing PHP
Dear Jim
I have a question regarding a e commerce site using PHP extensions vs. html. That is, I have seen at this SEO site that there might be an issue with search engines being able to crawl this kind of a site, since these are javascript sites I think there might be reason to worry, is it true? What should I do?
SEO Corner – Frames, JavaScript and Search Engines
Question: My site has frames and JavaScript. How can I tell if it is being fully seen/indexed by the search engines?
SEO Corner – Submitting to Non-US Search Engines
Question: I want to submit my site to the international (non-U.S. search engines). How should I do this?
Shari says: I understand the desire to have visibility in all of the major search engines in the world.
Getting Listed in Australian Search Engines
Can you tell me how I can submit to Google and Anzwer AustraliaNew Zealand? I rank number 4 in the World search but don’t even show in Australian searches. I pay Express submission to Inktomi my web address www.matstoneglobal.com is it because I have .com and not .com.au
Styling Your Copy for Search Engines AND Visitors
Since all of the major search engines use the words that appear on web pages as an important factor in their ranking algorithms, it is important to make sure that you let the search engines know exactly what your pages are about. However, it is just as important that you do so in a way that will not compromise your marketing message or turn off your visitors. To demonstrate how it is possible to style your copy for search engines without diminishing the visitor experience, it is perhaps easiest to create a fictional example.
Get Your Keywords In The Right Place & Have The Search Engines Love Your Pages!
Do you use a side navigation bar on your website?
Many of us do – it makes for an eye-catching, easy-to-use navigational layout.