My 2 Cents on SEO

[wwdietsc]

I have been thinking a lot about SEO a lot lately and I just want to share with everyone my opinion of what makes a great website that will put you at the top of search engines. Hope You Enjoy!

Creating content people want is your best SEO tactic. If you give them something they like, they will come back time after time. Discover what your target audience’s interest is and then give it to them. Use the right words for this subject and use them naturally. Help readers and search engine crawlers by using titles that organize the content of the site. Once you have great content on your site you can use blogs and forums to help boost visibility in your industry.

Build websites with content that people want to read makes more people want to come to your site. If your readers like your content and share it with their friends this is what will give you a great position on the search engines not a website with a keyword thrown all over it and no content.

[whitneys]

I completely agree! There is no better way to raise your rank than pumping new content into your site, especially content that is relevant to your site and your audiences interests! Then you can give real customer value and you will get return users. nice post

Whitney

[duncanb]

Absolutely!!!

A site that achieves good rankings in a search engine is a site that is fresh with regular updates. I know a chap whom owns a pretty large IM'ing company. They advertise on adsense their information sites. People whom click on these sites recognise that they are so well updated that they subsequently keep revisiting these sites (from memory as oppossed to clicking through an add). This growth is all down to excellent quality and maintenance.

[jasonmorgan]

I'm guessing none of you have a site that ranks very well for anything other than a very low competition keyword.

but feel free to dream on.

[Scott Henderson]

Originally Posted by wwdietsc

I have been thinking a lot about SEO a lot lately and I just want to share with everyone my opinion of what makes a great website that will put you at the top of search engines. Hope You Enjoy!

Creating content people want is your best SEO tactic. If you give them something they like, they will come back time after time. Discover what your target audience’s interest is and then give it to them. Use the right words for this subject and use them naturally. Help readers and search engine crawlers by using titles that organize the content of the site. Once you have great content on your site you can use blogs and forums to help boost visibility in your industry.

Build websites with content that people want to read makes more people want to come to your site. If your readers like your content and share it with their friends this is what will give you a great position on the search engines not a website with a keyword thrown all over it and no content.

Okay say you want to build a site devoted to "work from home", just having good content is not going to do you much good with 300 million competitors. You can write all you want and without other SEO tactics you will not rank well just on content alone, yes perhaps you will for "flying green and purple lawn mowers"

[optomathematgineer]

I believe to rank #1, you have to have everything that will make it #1...sound silly. What I mean is good content for both the readers (human) and the spider (machine). The keyword search, domain name, blah, blah, blah will all contribute to the success. Just like the usual saying that without the small screw, the machine will breakdown. Same here, everything count. Agree?

[tjcocker]

Originally Posted by jasonmorgan

I'm guessing none of you have a site that ranks very well for anything other than a very low competition keyword.

but feel free to dream on.

I was going to say something similar, but you beat me to it.

That is not SEO, that is building a happy little community that will become so blind to your ads that you'll never see a click, or far fewer clicks than is worth the effort.

[Dennis Gaskill]

Google has approximately 200 separate factors that determine where a site ranks. Content is one. It's an important one, but lots of sites have lots of content and still don't rank worth a diddle. Here's a hint:

incoming links
incoming link's importance
incoming link's relevance
strength of theme
latent semantics
anchor text
title text
keyword usage
link consistency
domain age
update frequency
site structure
naming conventions
crawler friendliness
strength of competition

...and on and on. Hope that helps you realize how big the picture really is.

[max922]

You can Say Content is King. its True Google like Unique and Relevant Content if you want to higher Search Engine Ranking ..

[searchnology]

Right on!...my sites rank in the top 3 consistently on Google for very competitive terms and they are just static sales pages that I haven't updated in years. ....backlinks, backlinks, backlinks.

Note that it is not usually the content itself that improves SERPs rankings but rather the "traffic" that the content brings. When Google notices your site getting lots of traffic you will get a SERPs bump over a site that is equal in content but with less traffic. So in that case the higher rankings are indeed due to the content just not directly.

Originally Posted by shen923

Okay say you want to build a site devoted to "work from home", just having good content is not going to do you much good with 300 million competitors. You can write all you want and without other SEO tactics you will not rank well just on content alone, yes perhaps you will for "flying green and purple lawn mowers"

[turbohips]

Originally Posted by jasonmorgan

I'm guessing none of you have a site that ranks very well for anything other than a very low competition keyword.

but feel free to dream on.

LOL I couldn't have said it any better.