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03-10-2006
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Hi, I've had my site now for about 5 years, and I've been working on it all that time. About 10 months ago I started with SEO and links. I bought WebCEO and I've been working on this site ever since, but there has been no increase in relevent traffic. Can anyone tell me how to get myself more recognised? I need to earn some money, and it just isn't happening through the website! Catherine ==Not nuts, just a little eccentric== www.africanbush.co.za African Bush Tours and Safaris P O Box 232, Rouxville, 9958, South Africa Tel (+27) 051 663-0170 or Mobile (+27) 082 490-5485 |
More links is the real key. Links from relevant sites. Find who links to
your competitors and ask them to link to you.
Your linking structure could be better also to make better use of what
you have. Change the home link on all pages to South African Tours Home
or whatever you would like to target on the main page and see if you can
get people to link to the main page with those keywords in the title
like this:
<a href="www.africanbush.co.za">South African Tours</A>
This might help in some way - but you need more links, links, links!
Didn't have much time to look in depth - hopefully someone else will
have more details for you.
Good luck with it!
Jez.
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Catherine Milton wrote: Hi, I've had my site now for about 5 years, and I've been working on it all that time. About 10 months ago I started with SEO and links. I bought WebCEO and I've been working on this site ever since, but there has been no increase in relevent traffic. Can anyone tell me how to get myself more recognised? I need to earn some money, and it just isn't happening through the website! Catherine ==Not nuts, just a little eccentric== www.africanbush.co.za African Bush Tours and Safaris P O Box 232, Rouxville, 9958, South Africa Tel (+27) 051 663-0170 or Mobile (+27) 082 490-5485 Hi Catherine, More links is the real key. Links from relevant sites. Find who links to your competitors and ask them to link to you. Your linking structure could be better also to make better use of what you have. Change the home link on all pages to South African Tours Home or whatever you would like to target on the main page and see if you can get people to link to the main page with those keywords in the title like this: a href="www.africanbush.co.za">South African Tours</A This might help in some way - but you need more links, links, links! Didn't have much time to look in depth - hopefully someone else will have more details for you. Good luck with it! Jez. |
moment. Yet, the discussion above struck a nerve, so I hope to get a a
certain message across to Catherine.
<rant>Is it just me who is disturbed by the idea that sites without inbound
links don't count whereas those that get them artificially flourish? Many
have said this before, but it's probably worth repeating. Where has fairness
gone? The search enGine, probably pre-occupied with self-defence mechanisms
(due to spam) discriminates against a /huge/ majority of the Web and urges
Webmasters to waste their time 'link hunting'.</rant>
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Hi, I've had my site now for about 5 years, and I've been working on it all that time. About 10 months ago I started with SEO and links. I bought WebCEO and I've been working on this site ever since, but there has been no increase in relevent traffic. Can anyone tell me how to get myself more recognised? I need to earn some money, and it just isn't happening through the website! |
be fun to write your text for search engines, but you want *visitors*,
right?
So write your content for visitors.
Give each picture a link to a larger version (I hope the images are
yours, or you have the right to use them) on a separate HTML page, and
describe the picture. Tell your visitor that with your tour (don't
overuse it) they can see that stuff.
Next, give your pages better names. Make the old URLs 301 redirect to
the new ones. Examples:
Contact.htm -> contact-south-africa-tours.html
Tours.htm -> south-africa-tour-ideas.html
BushPost.htm -> tourists-who-did-south-africa-tours.html
Links.htm -> south-african-tourist-information.html
Next, very important: *write content* The whole site looks like a job
done in a hurry. I am sure you can write more. Write 2-3 paragraphs on a
single page. Make sure that they talk about the theme of the page.
E.g.
http://www.africanbush.co.za/vdven1.htm
who is we?
Make the text longer. (Also don't open new windows).
"The van der Ven family enjoyed their South Africa tour with me as their
guide. We visited Cape Point, and of course we took a walk up to the
Cape Point lighthouse, for the spectacular views."
(2x woordwaarde en 1 bonus punt :-D)
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Catherine ==Not nuts, just a little eccentric== www.africanbush.co.za African Bush Tours and Safaris P O Box 232, Rouxville, 9958, South Africa Tel (+27) 051 663-0170 or Mobile (+27) 082 490-5485 |
http://www.africanbush.co.za/ since more programs understand that.
Note that it's -- followed by exact one space on a line by itself (see
my signature). OE has (had?) an issue with this, so you need to install
quotefix or change to a different Usenet client.
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John Skilled Perl programmer for hire: http://castleamber.com/
Fox noGO:http://johnbokma.com/firefox/removin...earch-bar.html
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Next, give your pages better names. Make the old URLs 301 redirect to the new ones. Examples: Contact.htm -> contact-south-africa-tours.html Tours.htm -> south-africa-tour-ideas.html BushPost.htm -> tourists-who-did-south-africa-tours.html Links.htm -> south-african-tourist-information.html |
But new pages should be named this way.
Best,
Borek
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Hi, I've had my site now for about 5 years, and I've been working on it all that time. About 10 months ago I started with SEO and links. I bought WebCEO and I've been working on this site ever since, but there has been no increase in relevent traffic. Can anyone tell me how to get myself more recognised? I need to earn some money, and it just isn't happening through the website! Catherine ==Not nuts, just a little eccentric== www.africanbush.co.za African Bush Tours and Safaris P O Box 232, Rouxville, 9958, South Africa Tel (+27) 051 663-0170 or Mobile (+27) 082 490-5485 |
it, on all your pages and make the site validate. You'll probably get
ideas for new material while you're doing it and the engines will
probably like the result more than they do now. I only had the
briefest of looks - very busy here - and that's where I'd begin. Also
look for more links, clues are on my page www.kruse.co.uk/linkpop.htm
BB
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bill.kr...ird-prints.htm
http://www.crystal-liaison.com/harmo...dom/index.html
kruse (AT) crystal-liaison (DOT) com Gifty! Shiny! BB!
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__/ [ Jez ] on Friday 10 March 2006 17:29 \__ Catherine Milton wrote: Hi, I've had my site now for about 5 years, and I've been working on it all that time. About 10 months ago I started with SEO and links. I bought WebCEO and I've been working on this site ever since, but there has been no increase in relevent traffic. Can anyone tell me how to get myself more recognised? I need to earn some money, and it just isn't happening through the website! Catherine ==Not nuts, just a little eccentric== www.africanbush.co.za African Bush Tours and Safaris P O Box 232, Rouxville, 9958, South Africa Tel (+27) 051 663-0170 or Mobile (+27) 082 490-5485 Hi Catherine, More links is the real key. Links from relevant sites. Find who links to your competitors and ask them to link to you. Your linking structure could be better also to make better use of what you have. Change the home link on all pages to South African Tours Home or whatever you would like to target on the main page and see if you can get people to link to the main page with those keywords in the title like this: a href="www.africanbush.co.za">South African Tours</A This might help in some way - but you need more links, links, links! Didn't have much time to look in depth - hopefully someone else will have more details for you. Good luck with it! Jez. I'll probably be pulling this statement very arbitrarily, at a very arbitrary moment. Yet, the discussion above struck a nerve, so I hope to get a a certain message across to Catherine. rant>Is it just me who is disturbed by the idea that sites without inbound links don't count whereas those that get them artificially flourish? Many have said this before, but it's probably worth repeating. Where has fairness gone? The search enGine, probably pre-occupied with self-defence mechanisms (due to spam) discriminates against a /huge/ majority of the Web and urges Webmasters to waste their time 'link hunting'.</rant |
BB
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bill.kr...ird-prints.htm
http://www.crystal-liaison.com/harmo...dom/index.html
kruse (AT) crystal-liaison (DOT) com Gifty! Shiny! BB!
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Hi, I've had my site now for about 5 years, and I've been working on it all that time. About 10 months ago I started with SEO and links. I bought WebCEO and I've been working on this site ever since, but there has been no increase in relevent traffic. Can anyone tell me how to get myself more recognised? I need to earn some money, and it just isn't happening through the website! Catherine ==Not nuts, just a little eccentric== www.africanbush.co.za African Bush Tours and Safaris P O Box 232, Rouxville, 9958, South Africa Tel (+27) 051 663-0170 or Mobile (+27) 082 490-5485 |
learning university student...(
cheap and willing ..well I was lol.. AT Design etc
! Im not great atSEO I was a designer first but I think you need a bit of help from
someone (a pro) not on the net really..IMHO
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Firespin Design
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West Sussex Company specializing in
Web, Print Design, Illustration,
Hosting services and Support.
Affordable prices.
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__/ [ Jez ] on Friday 10 March 2006 17:29 \__ rant>Is it just me who is disturbed by the idea that sites without inbound links don't count whereas those that get them artificially flourish? Many have said this before, but it's probably worth repeating. Where has fairness gone? The search enGine, probably pre-occupied with self-defence mechanisms (due to spam) discriminates against a /huge/ majority of the Web and urges Webmasters to waste their time 'link hunting'.</rant |
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I'll probably be pulling this statement very arbitrarily, at a very arbitrary moment. Yet, the discussion above struck a nerve, so I hope to get a a certain message across to Catherine. rant>Is it just me who is disturbed by the idea that sites without inbound links don't count whereas those that get them artificially flourish? Many have said this before, but it's probably worth repeating. Where has fairness gone? The search enGine, probably pre-occupied with self-defence mechanisms (due to spam) discriminates against a /huge/ majority of the Web and urges Webmasters to waste their time 'link hunting'.</rant |
nothing to do with your post. Follow what John and Jez have suggested thus
far and you should do better soon.
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I like a good rant. I want to get in on it too. Here's mine.
Unfortunately Jez is correct with her assessment. Make the site seem
important and popular and you'll win the SERPs game. Has very little to do
with the content of the web site, the number of coding errors ... If you
build 1000s of unnecessary sub-level pages linking to the Entrance or any
other page you want, even if they are exactly identical, they will add up.
You can do this manually or generate it with software, doesn't matter. Just
gets links pointing. Doesn't matter what kind of links they are be it
textual, graphic, javascripted ... as long as Google can find them and they
point to the right place. Get your buddies into the action too, replicate
the biggest linking monster you can come up with. Doesn't matter who they
are, what their web sites are about. Nothing matters at all.
There is one catch though, you have to make the important web page as
useless as possible for the web visitor. Here is the trick, don't link to
anything from that page. Google forbids you to indicate that the page has
integrity and can be useful. Create your important pages to be as absolutely
useless as possible for a web visitor. Remember that by making a web page
useful will bring it down in the SERPs.
That's SEO 2006 for Google in a nutshell.
<fredzravingtoo>Whereas quality of a web site once counted for something in
the SERPs, it seems to no longer matter anymore. Build the worst possible
web site imaginable and use every conceivable spam technique on earth, sit
back and watch your traffic grow. Sad, but true. Should in the extremely
rare case that a web site gets penalized, simply move it
elsewhere.</fredzravingtoo>
Maybe this is a little exaggerated but my raving is over.
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Ethical SEO Tips, Tools and Resources
www.rezultz-web-site-promotion.com
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