I finally decided to put my site up selling shirts. I have been very busy trying to work optimization out. Being just one guy, i am finding in trying to do this it is beocming incredibly time consuming. Partly because I am really just starting to learn the ins and outs (i think I have just scratched the surface). I am looking for things/ways to automate some seo processes. Not to be lazy, because I cant spend all day! Any advice? ~BRiCK
How did you build your site? Is it a collection of static pages that you built manually using HTML, ASP, PHP? Or is it a dynamic site where are you using some type of Content Management System (CMS) like Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, etc? And are you talking about on-page/on-site SEO? Or off-site SEO? I would suggest concentrating first on getting your on-page/on-site SEO done and THEN move on to off-site SEO (building backlinks). If you built a static site where you have to manually edit code each time you want to make a change to a page or add a page then you have your work cut out for you... If you built your site so that it is dynamic using a CMS then modifying things like <title>, <h1>, <meta name="description">, <meta name="keywords">, the body or content of the page, etc. should all be done using a graphical user interface and not require any coding once you have all of your page templates and widgets/components used to build pages in place. A non-technical person should be able to add pages to such a site and/or change almost everything about existing pages without changing even a single line of code. I would suggest getting all of your <title> and <h1> elements optimized across all pages on the site first... optimizing the actual content on the page 2nd... then move to <meta name="description"> since it can have impact on click-thru-rates in the SERPs (even though it's not used at all by Google to rank the page). I would worry about <meta name="keywords"> last since they are practically ignored by almost every "real" search engine on the planet. Once your site is fully optimized THEN move on to building backlinks to the various pages you want to rank using the targeted keyword phrases from the <title> of the page as the link text in the links you build pointing to those pages...
Good question. From what the designer told me, to edit anything the easiest way is to open that file in a text editor on my server, etc,etc. I think that answers your question. (the last time i worked on a website IE didn't exist)
You can ditch your designer and use a CMS ( joomla or wordpress )that will allow you to put in those <title> tags and other tags that will be your SEO of your site, like the other poster has stated. You will not have to learn code to do this, just install the CMS. You do it once, and then use the CMS graphical interface to arrange your site the way you like it.
I agree... Any "paid" designer building static sites these days when so many great CMS systems like Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc. are available for free are likely doing so to insure that they are "needed" over and over to make changes to the site.
Canonical...I am surprised to see you have 1240 posts and you only joined in March.How much time do you spend online?
Hard work is all you need............ nothing to automate SEO process... check seoaidhq.com and find it out
You can automate ..................one way is have some one else do the work...other wise roll your sleeves up and get busy! No way to automate except outsource no such thing guy! Sorry!
Outsourcing is very popular nowadays. I try to outsource boring stuff like blog commenting and article submissions. When it comes to getting good backlinks I'd rather do it myself.