Not sure if this falls in this category but it has to do w/ adsense and sales as well. www.engineseeker.com are they worth using? it's 75 bucks for the software and something like 25 a month for updates, not sure if that's optional. But they have been around a while and I trialed it the other day and it seems pretty nice and easy to use. I am horrible with seo and meta tags and the liking and I want to know if this will really help me? I have been getting a lot of visitors lately because I finally finished a guide for world of warcraft and it really is popular. I feel engine seeker can bring in traffic for clicks and sales but I really want to know if it's a good thing to get or if there is something better for the money. Any advice would be great.
Hi Aboutitworld, I tried engineseeker with no luck really. Best thing to do is to make sure you got all your meta tags set up and try to link to as many other sites as possible, the sites with a higher Alexa ranking and Goolge PR are the best. Here is an example.... Place this in between your <head></head> tags Hope this helps, Thanks, Trevor
Hi, Looks like you have a lot of good info on your site. Meta tags aren't the end all of seo. Google and others can figure out what your pages are about from it's content. Having said that, title tags are very important so atleast make sure you have those set up with your appropriate keywords. Here is what I would recommend doing. Instead of spending money on engine seeker, get yourself your own domain name and paid hosting account. I would recommend hostgator.com. You can get a full year of hosting for the initial price of engineseeker. Then with the monthly $25 you would of paid for engineseeker I would maybe see if you can buy a text link on a similar site, maybe find a sponsor by searching for other webmasters with good pagerank that have related sites and ask them if you can sponsor their site with a text link that has the link text "world of warcraft" etc. The reason I say get real hosting is that the search engines penalize sites that use free hosting. I'm not sure how much i8.com (which is really 50megs.com) is affected but others like geocities or tripod are. Your own domain and hosting makes you look more professional as well. With an account at hostgator you have access to your own control panel where you can install free scripts such as your own blog or forum. Having those things installed on your domain will make your site larger and you will have complete control as well as ownership which you don't have when hosting your forum on phpbbserver.com. After you get that all set up try exchanging a few links with other warcraft fans and in general getting the word out about your site. Make it easy for others to link to your site by creating a page where other webmasters can grab some code to paste into their site. Maybe write some articles about your topic and submit them to article directories where other webmasters can use your articles on their sites. Also try submitting your site to web directories. Do all that and you will definetely get more traffic.
wow that looks like gree, all the meta stuff. I never understood that stuff really. Thanks for the info I'll read it later in depth when I have more time
I do have my site on a list of web directories. my i8.com site isn't free, I set it up last year for like 3 bucks a month. I do have www.marsgamer.com which is the exact same site as the i8 site but I have plans for the marsgamer.com site and a web professional is working on that, it's way out of my league. The only thing I worry about if I change my domain is people finding it. I do know that I can have a forwarder or something like a redirecter.
also what does linking to higher PR sites have to do if they're not linking to me? and about PR I always thought 1 was the best but I'm told 10 is. I had thought 1 meant when you search x term that the page 1 is a PR 1 ranking
isn't there also something i should put in a robots.txt file? I read about it sometime last week but forgot where I seen it. Also should I put it in all directories or just the main w/ the url leading to the main robots.txt?
no one ever said why it's good to link to high pr and alexa ranked sites. What does this do besides help their link pop?
Hey Gooya_Host, How much is considered "over loading or spamming" the keyword tag. I always hear they're no big deal. Not that I believe it. I've seen sites that are buried because of it. I try to limit any one word to three apperances in the keyword tag. Too conserative??
The engineseeker advice was good As for those head tags.....Run the other way ......youre about to be run over with spam......... Gooyah....you should perhaps read up a bit more on keyword stuffing and meta tags before posting what users should post on their sites. Thanks
Well they are stuffed with keywords repeated too many times... All those robots instructions do not belong there.....they only server to push your real content further down the page. All tobots instructions should be in the robots.txt file....which it seems you knew...so as such you yourself maybe ahead of the gooyah in the seo game.. But I hate being the only dissenting voice,..... Peace
I don't really understand why this would help a site. I know it's only an example but can you explain why it helps. I know very little about meta tags.
In a search result...the info in the description tag is shown below the page name...sometimes followed by a bit of page content. A catchy line here can make users click. Keywords can sometimes help tune ads to more of what your expecting. Use this tag sparingly...only use a few keywords. Let the keywords scattered in your content do the talking. All these robot tags aren't needed..you got your robots.txt for that. The others tags should be easy to understand.