So I went out and read a couple articles on Thursday about SEO and got some fairly interesting advice. I had planned to write this right when I was done with my assignment for the class, but instead Jeff wanted us to read an article written by google and the post was due Saturday. Well, obviously I postponed writing the blog post and eventually forgot about it. So today when I realized I hadn't done it yet I hopped online and read the google SEO article. Now this might be because I did a bit of html coding back in middle school, but almost everything in that article seemed like common sense. For most of the article the only thing that wasn't taught in this class or didn't seem like common sense was meta tags, and honestly meta tags are a very basic concept which every webmaster should already know about.
There was one thing I enjoyed reading in the google article was the robots.txt file. I had heard of a way to do that kind of stuff before, but this was the first place that explained it in detail and in plain english. Well, now that I look the article over one more time, rel="nofollow" and the list of free webmaster tools at the end are fairly helpful as well.
I found a couple new articles today because I couldnt find the links from the ones I read last week.
http://www.blog-maniac.com/blog-seo.htm
I liked this one even though it still had a lot of things that seemed like common sense again. It talked about some useful things like link exchanges and trackbacks. Things you might not necessarily think about but are still quite easy to do.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-interesting-insights-into-google-rankings-spam-from-pubcon
This article was actually quite interesting because it tells you how to keep of the "naughty list" essentially. It basically just lists in detail a bunch of ways search engine crawlers classify malicious or spam sites. While there are a couple on there you might have legitimate reasons to do the opposite, chances are you can do them all fairly easily and avoid bringing negative "search engine vibes" to your site.
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i think i was supposed to put in my post ways to promote my site. besides all the normal SEO stuff I would try to get my site onto social bookmarking sites like digg and reddit. I would also try to build a following on social networking sites like facebook myspace twitter etc. additionally (if I had money) I would hire a "street team" type group. A student in various colleges around the country who could help promote the site on campus (if it wasnt related to students i would probably still use this technique, but in a different setting). I would get friends to link to my site on their sites. submit my site to registries and organize some link exchanges with related sites. if i had access to any large pools of email addresses, i would send the least spam looking spam message possible to everyone. who knows i might even buy some advertising on other sites, or googles adsense. good old word of mouth works too. i feel like im just listing a bunch of marketing techniques and could probably go one for a while, so ill end it there
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