[miles]

How can you improve the ranking of a site?

I currently use the meta "keywords" and "description" tags. Are there any other methods/tips that i could use?

Miles

Thank you in advance

[webmaster]

I think Search Engine Optimization is one of the hardest things when doing a site. It used to be enough with some meta tags, but today its not that important any more. There is many things that matters when you are trying to get a high search enging rank, for example:

* Using H1 on the right places.
* Make sure you use ALT texts on all your images, theese ALT text should also match your keywords in the description and keyword meta tags.
* You should not link to sites with less PR (PageRank) than 4. Its will decrease you own PR.
* You should get as many people to link to your site as possible, it will increase your PR.
* You should optimize the text on your site to match your description and keyword meta tags.
* Use a robot.txt file for the SE robots.

Im new in this SEO buissness, but Im learning, and its so much to learn in SEO.

There are many more ways to get a higher SE rank, just add more if you know some.

[assassin]

How do you find your page rank?

[webmaster]

[Phate]

It also seems to me that the more search engines you are in, the better your results are on the engines

[piskie]

I am just checking back to topics previously covered on this forum to see where I'm at.

A couple of points come from this topic such as webmaster said:
"You should not link to sites with less PR (PageRank) than 4. Its will decrease you own PR"

I don't think this is entirely true. If you link to sites with PR2 & PR3, providing they are "Quality" sites and not Spammy (preferably on topic or in theme), there is (IMHO) no harm. If however they are Black Hat Stuff or in bad neighbourhoods, yes they can be detrimental.

Also (IMHO) if every alt tag is KW Stuffed, it is treated as spammy by Google, MSN and Yahoo. Not to the extent of banning from their index, but certainly a handicap loading. Best to make your alt tag perform its W3C defined function. This also helps "Accessibility" for those with special browsers that will read out a web page and that includes the alt tags.

Heading tags is a structure again defined by W3C and is more than just H1s. There should as a general rule be one and only one H1 tag at the beginning of each page announcing the overall page subject, with H2s and H3s used within the page as sub topics are introduced.

As for Google Toolbar, this is effectively spywear.
Better to use a standalone PR tool (GoogRank for example) that is implimented on demand instead of being resident within your browser ALL the time reporting your activities to Google.

[webmaster]

I wrote that message 9th september 2004, the PR were much more important the it's now.

As piskie sais. Quality is good, try to trade links with other sites in your area. Use releated anchortexts and you will see results.

By the way, welcome to DEVPPL piskie!

[nindja]

more one way links =up in google

[pdacrandy]

you need to improve your link popularity...without link popularity, you're nowhere. The key is to get one-way text links to your site posted on relevant blogs. You can also write articles/press releases and submit them to article submission directories to increase your link popularity.

[dazz_club]

I agree with pdcrandy, writing articles and submitting them to relevant websites will increase your ranking.

content is king!!!

[mad about illustration]

I think the webmaster's suggestion seems the best.

[wenli]