Creating Quality Site Content - Avoiding Mistakes with the Search Engines

You need desperately to market your site and have a limited budget. The natural alternative for you is the search engines. If you have a high ranking in the various search engines you have a better chance of getting traffic and customers to your website. There are a number of ways to achieve this, one of which is to do what is called search engine optimization (SEO) and get what is called ‘organic’ traffic to your site – in other words, traffic from natural site ranking. This can be a tough thing to do and takes a lot of work. It takes so much work and is such a tricky process there are companies that specialize in that and nothing else. But again, we’re back to you having a limited budget, and hiring someone to do SEO can be expensive. So the natural alternative is to do it yourself, but, again this is a lot of work, though worth its weight in gold if it helps your business succeed. What you do not want to do is try to cheat the results and have your site rank high by doing what the search engines consider to be dishonest. This is commonly called ‘spamdexing’ or ‘spamming the search engines’ and get your site banned from them altogether, and that can be a disaster.

The following list is directly from Google and can be seen in its entirety by going to Google and looking up Webmaster Guidelines or by going to http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&src=top5.

Quality guidelines - specific guidelines

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don't use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don't send automated queries to Google.
• Don't load pages with irrelevant keywords.
• Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don't create pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

I’ll have more tomorrow on the right way to create a user friendly as well as a site that is friendly to the search engines.

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