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fergu38397
12-27-2003, 03:08 PM
Anyone have any good tips for advertizing ? I have optimized my meta tags and paid for search engine submission. Don't know if I'm in the search engines but my email fills up everyday from the ffa pages spamming me now...
I've paid advertyz.com $77 for 100,000 US unique visitors and I'm getting them but I'd like to have some visitors when the ads run out. If anyone has a good banner exchange program for the US please let me know.
I don't have or want adult content because my site has a bunch of links for kids.

My site is http://www.link2earth.com. I get about 30 to 50 returning users a day...It's been up since the middle of November.
Annied
12-27-2003, 08:21 PM
I'd say persevere with getting your website accepted by Google/Yahoo. About 70 - 80% of my search engine hits come from them. They use everything that's on the page, not just the metatags. The other search engine that's important is www.dmoz.com , otherwise known as the Open Directory. A lot of the other search engines feed off those 3 so if you're included in them, you automatically end up on a lot of others.

There's a line of script you can add to your head code so that robots come back regularly and any new items you've added to the page are cached.

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="follow">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT ="30 Days">

In this instance the robots will visit every 30 days. (I'm told it's not a good idea to make it less than about 4 weeks.)
fergu38397
12-28-2003, 06:32 AM
Here's my meta tags...I added your recommendation and would welcome any further advice.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Link 2 Earth</TITLE>
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="translation,weather,phone,games,horoscopes,astrolo gy,software,homepage,mp32wav,mp3,state government,make money,affiliate">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Great homepage provides easy web surfing for the beginner and expert alike. Search or go directly to games, news, weather, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, movie & TV schedules, and so much more with just one click !">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="follow">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT ="30 Days">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="joe-ferguson@comcast.net">
</HEAD>

Part of the problem is that the page encompasses so many different topics...
Annied
12-28-2003, 01:33 PM
That's about the limit of my knowledge I'm afraid.

I took a look at your home page and what you seem to be creating is a links directory. I wonder if it would help to include words like "links", "lists" and "directories" in your keywords and description. A line of text somewhere on the page using "lists" and "directories" could be useful too. Then if "list of free software sites" or "directory of free software sites" (for example) is entered into a search engine, you'd stand more chance of coming higher up the rankings. Why not work through the Yahoo or dmoz categories and pinpoint where other websites like yours are placed in them. Or try putting search phrases like the one I've mentioned into a search engine and see who comes out on top. If you can find similar websites to yours, that are more successful in attracting visitors you can have a look at them and see how they've approached it. It may give you some further ideas.

Perhaps there are some other forum members with more expertise who could help further.
marcelzwakenberg
12-31-2003, 12:36 PM
Interesting little discussion, but I'm afraid it's quite useless: Google's algoritms for ranking site are quite complex (and secret:-)), but a lot is known about them.

One thing that is known for a long time about Google's algoritms: Google does *NOT* like link-farms at all, and will either *BAN* the site from their index completely, or (because the lack of relevant content, which is eminent with link-farms) will not rank 'm high at all.
webmoriar
01-12-2004, 07:06 AM
Google is very complex in it's ranking but one way to have a good ranking it to affiliate with sites that are similar to yours(can be different I think but the more similar the better) now google has a pagerank feature if you are linked from sites with a high pagerank your rank will be higher. This is probably the easiest feature to understand. Hope this makes sense.