Thread: getting your website to the top of google

^ & ^^ you guys learn to read it wouldn;t be such a problem
Put pics n the site wouldn;t match the layout. But the flash buttons stand out like a whore in church.

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^ AFTER you get your shit together on your site.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

^ & ^^ you guys learn to read it wouldn;t be such a problem

huh? whadd he say?

Put pics n the site wouldn;t match the layout.

i dont agree, but then thats wot u get when u ask for opinions.....

But the flash buttons stand out like a whore in church.

certainly agree with that - aint nothing worse than stoopid flashy gimmicks on the web....

Use Google Adwords too

Not flash buttons guys, just buttons that have had a behavior (swap image) added to it. Standard fare for most websites.

Good on ya Mockers...I can merge that photo if ya still interested.

Agreed.

I say lose the buttons, change the typeface to a non-serifed font like Arial, Verdana. Compare the readability of posts here on TD with Arial as opposed to the Times New Romanyou are now using.

Minimalistic is great, I can see you dont want to spend lots of time with layout and I agree you shouldnt - the content is what matters, but those two basic things would help a lot.

Instead, make your links simple, underlined words. Almost universally understood, and simple too.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

Originally Posted by Silent Ninja

You can't get a boring website to the top of Google.

Yes you can. IN fact websites without pics do very well in google. Content is king. Machines and software can't read images.

memock the site looks nice I like the plain look fits with what you;re doing. Broken links are a big no-no though. The link to "news.html is broken." If google looks at your own index page it would not find most of the sub-pages as there is no link to them that is machine readable!

Get rid of the flash buttons Build text links you can use images for back ground but yu want text links on your page. The amount of code to links to the flash dilutes your Keyword density. They don;t match the look of your page anyway. Add a description and keyword tags to your head section.
THe title and description tags are probably the most important tags in your document; things like, '<title>Untitled Document</title>' are very poor attempts at getting up in the search engines.

Get your pages in order then look to gettng indexed. At the very least, the link should be in your sig. link exchange programs do work. getting one-way (non-reciprocal) links is better. Before you go after the SEs to get them indexing your page you really need to optimize the page.

Posting questions here is OK but I, or any other web professional, that gets results is not going to give away all the tricks and ploys. Do some reading on the subject, there's alot of crap ideas out there but plenty of good info too. educate yourself enough to know the difference between the two. It's a competitive market and if you're serious you need to be prepared, or hire a professional (even then, a bit of buyer education is a good idea). While you are a writer take some pointers from your professional on re writtiing your stuff to include the search terms you settle on targeting. Expand your targets as you gain successes.

Also break the page up, keep the first page more recent; age off the other entries, with a link to 'em. an rss feed is an excellent idea. Not using tables is also an excellent idea tables are hard for SEs to read.

Use some "h" tags and style sheets to set their size weight and face. separate your style sheet into a linked file, it doesn;t need to be in the page source (dilution). Start researching related keywords that have less competition and higher search numbers use 'em in headings, titles, descriptions and the text. Build a site map & rss feed put links to those files in public directories. Link to them using text links Get into a link exchange program.

You have a word to content ratio this is good but is your targeted keyword ratio high enough? 8 - 15&#37; keywords used in the text.

Page looks nice, I like it; but getting to the "Top of Google" requires research and then targeting your page to your results, no amount a tricks are going to work unless you work on this important step. being the top ranked page for some obscure terms is useless if no one ever uses those terms. Before pushing yor page out there get it in order. Fisrt impressions are important even with SEs. Trying to overcome bad impressions is a time-consuming endeavor.

So how do I get my web site on the first page of google, i'm no web designer but my web master seems to have no idea, I'm already on google ad words, I'm all a bit lost on this seo stuff ?????

http://www.rosegate-consulting.com

Anybody with any simple ideas I'll be very glad to listen, nothing to complicated otherwise I'm totally lost

Originally Posted by dickie

but my web master seems to have no idea

Get yourself a new webmaster.
Your present one seems to be a "cowboy".

is ur website down? i cannot open it...

Grrrrr but pretty funny as well.

Stuffed if I know - I have never been able to access it from home but always can from work.

It was working this morning. Will check again when I go back to the office soon.

So, is that Crystal Gerrard married/living with her fine upstanding fella?

Hehe - classic story that was - and to think they were going to try and sue me!!

All I know is that she left town in a real hurry!

This is another way to get your site to the top of google.

Get it linked to two of the biggest newspapers in the country

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good on yer mate.

sometimes you're a funny guy Marmers...

Originally Posted by MeMock

This is where I need your help. How do i do that? __________________ http://www.themovieaustralia.com News is what someone, somewhere is trying to suppress - everything else is just advertising.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Posting a link would help...

^ That was a later addition, Granddad.

Sometimes you're an old git, Klongy...

Originally Posted by MeMock

Get it linked to two of the biggest newspapers in the country

Wow . Good work old chap.