Okay, I just started building my website, and I need some help here. It was a free website, but I still want my traffic. I want to learn what these things are and how these things work...Proxy's, RSS Feed, Digg, Stumble Upon, and I know what Meta Tags are, but don't know how to apply them. Also, could I use an adsense account with a free server, and are there others like it I could use besides adsense? If anyone has a tutorial that explains these things that they could point me to it would be greatly appreciatted. There are probably other terms I need to know, and I welcome any tips or suggestions. I would like to get my site off the ground. I am new to the whole SEO thing, and I really want to learn.
You are at one of the places you need to be... here at DP. Everyone has already given you all this advice in the pages on this site and others. So spend some time looking around, use the search tool on this site. You'll find answers and advice all over the place. Also check out webmasterworld.com... Good luck and welcome to the online business world... =)
Well, I have been making money online for a few years now on a site that no longer exists...lol, but I have always just "Winged" it. I just think that maybe if I learn these other things it might help me more. Thank you for the website! I will definately check it out!
I'm in the same boat...i've been glued to this site for the past 3 days straight trying to figure out all the things you listed. I'd be curious to hear what people say. DP is so extensive, it seems easy to get sort of lost as a newbie.
To start of off, meta tags are html codes that functions as descriptors of what the page content is all about and the refresh rate. Today, less and less use these due to it's non value to Google and Y!. As this web page element can be manipulated by webmasters. Besides adsense, you can make use of Y! Overture, bidvertisers or you could find an interesting products to affiliate with. Digg is one of the many bookmarking sites that lets readers store information on the page that they find entertaining or informative for future retrieval. Other bookmarking sites include reddit, del.icio.us, magnolia, furl, simpy... StumbleUpon is a Social Networking site where people gather to share their sites or other sites that have valuable information. Other sites like this are Facebook, Rhyze (Niche: Business), MySpace... RSS are feed formats used to publish updated pages/content. This lets readers subscribe to your sites content enabling them to be alerted whenever new information is available.
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