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- negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30@sonicad: 10 things you should know before submitting your crappy blog to digg
#1: get a better host. - QueenBeeCassi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Good advice, except "submitting your site to google" is useless. That's not how it works...
- aloser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Actually you do: http://www.google.com/addurl/
But pagerank will be zero.. it's all about the backlinks :) - tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13google is in your tubes, crawling your sites
- nuclei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8*Rant in Progress* Anyone who still thinks you have to submit a website to any of the major search engines, should not be writing articles on SEO.
- GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8#0: Validate it!
Check the HTML is valid with http://validator.w3.org/
Check the CSS is valid with http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Check the spelling and grammar with tools of your choice.
Check all the links are valid.
Yes, it may display okay with invalid HTML and Google will still index invalid pages.
But stupid mistakes could cost you valuable keyword hits and it makes it less likely that your code will work in different browsers. - jacksim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Search Engine Optimization
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6They should add this one to the top.
#0: If you have to submit your site to Google, it's not worth your effort.
Sure, google can go spider your content - but a big part of the algorithm for pagerank is the number of pages that link to your site. If any other pages link to your site - you will likely be indexed soon anyways (unless they have your link with a rel="nofollow" tag). If no pages link to your site, you will be a PageRank 0 page. You know how Google tells you how your search term returned 42,302,391 results? You will be the 42,302,391th page on their list... And if you optimize your content - you might be able to get to the 40,918,101th page but it wont really do you any good. - jimrooney, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8In Soviet Russia you find g.... awe screw it
- kenben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5and he clearly omitted checking your content for spelling and grammatical errors
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Even so some people prefer not to install flash and it is really just a crappy way to display data. Also a lot of screen readers can not read text in flash. So flash is good and all just have some plane text content so blind people and people with out flash can read your page.
- MaximusIGN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5duggmirror is down. It's been really unreliable lately..
- jinglee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have never felt the need to submit my site to the index...it is done much quicker even otherwise. Just get a couple of links to your website from sites already indexed, preferably high PR ones, and you will find your site indexed in just a couple of days..
- Nantel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Something else that should go in there:
If you have a photoblog and you use an .htaccess file to block unwanted leechers, don't forget to make an exception for the Google Spider. Google Image is only updated twice a year which means that I only realized how badly I screwed up when I lost 20,000 monthly visitors. If I'm lucky, I won't get these back for another 6 months. - sicc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Word around the campfire is, you should never submit it to Google. Instead, all you need to do is add your link somewhere that Google already crawls. Even submit it to Digg. I mean, it may not get any diggs, but Google would find it anyway. There's actually a nice pr6 blog somewhere that lets you dump your link for like 4 hours so Google will find it, but I forgot the URL.
- superguysteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This article has some of the most poorly constructed sentences I have ever read.
- GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3BS!
- vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah. I never submit my sites to anything anymore and Google and a thousands of other bots spider them daily even if I try to hide everything.
- rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3sites just overloaded to death...with just a few comments?
- jeff419, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27. Do you have dynamically generated pages?
I know the web evolved so much in the last period of time, and more and more websites based on dynamic scripting languages (PHP, ASP, etc) are coming out every second, but Google said they are limiting the amount of dynamic webpages they’re indexing. It’s not too late to consider a compromise and include some static content in your pages. It helps.
This is outdated. Google announced a while ago that this is no longer the case.
However, in some cases if you have ridiculously long dynamic URLs those pages will not get indexed. - smitting, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2then what's the point of the google site map xml?
- ciops, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Great basic SEO tips :)
- QueenBeeCassi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But what's the point of SEO if you have a site that isn't usable by as many people as possible?
- AlanLivingston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How DOES Google find you? I have a dopey little site with pictures of my kid being born. It's really just interesting to my family. As far as I know, no one links to it. I'm pretty sure no one else in my family even has a web site to link to it from.
Yet every few days, I get Google crawling through it. The only reason I noticed is that I get so little traffic, I know the IPs of family that do see it. And this one was different. - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@"How DOES Google find you? "
Usually if another site already index links you then google has you. You don't really need to submit a link to google anymore as long as blog or some other site references you. - v3xt0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"10 SEO myths used to sell people on SEO services" is what I concluded after reading this blog-spam.
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Fatal error: Cannot redeclare related_posts() (previously declared in /home/songsblo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/2.0.4/related-posts.php:53) in /home/songsblo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts.php on line 53
I'd start by looking into that. - Aupajo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2#7 was something new to me.
- ciops, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@negativefx: We've just moved on a dedicated server at (mt). Please point a better host and well consider it. I'm not saying that they're the best, but most of the people do.
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2His next blog will be about the importance of the keyword meta tag...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd like to see you handling the digg effect with whatever crappy server you're using.
- 1InMany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think the following link gives a much more comprehensive set of guidelines ..
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 - swazooe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1google
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1searchjerk = SPAM
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Website is up and running now.
- ravianz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yah! i think there are many more important things that are important so someone can write even fifty points
- tlianza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
Google recommends submitting your site to Google. Maybe Google should not be writing articles on SEO, eh? What do they know, after all. - bondjamsbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The sitemap XML is to help push a standard along and it also ensures more thorough indexing if done correctly.
- jawagas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4SEO?
- loratwopointone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not loading... so soon!
- lawtonchiles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks a bunch.
- rubah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mine just kinda got swept in from DMOZ
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3LOL you have no control over submitting your site to google. Google finds you. Submitting your site is useless. What the title should be is What you should do before you SEO your website or what you should do before you pay for ads.
- pinehurst, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Could they come up with 10 more obvious tips? .. Nevermind the whole "submit" issue. Perhaps the author should be thinking about one tip to keep his site live before submitting it to DIGG...
- gamebittk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1You can submit it to Digg, and since Digg is ranked extremely high, your site will turn up on the first page of Google with the keywords you enter [on Digg]. But that would be spamming...
- VSLOATHE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Submitting your site to Google = honeypot. You will be banned from the SERPs.
Just do what I do and write a blog comment spammer to get yourself indexed. - th2edrrfs, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2shoot, son. i thought i was making a good point there. DIGG ME DOWN, haters.
If we're talking SOLELY about SEO, it doesnt hurt to have text in Flash. search engine crawlers can read it, so that website is wrong in saying they cant. - lifendeath, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2last i heard, google does find u, but u need to have atleast 1 good backlink for google to find u.
Also your url shouldnt be some artibitary thing, it should make sense something like
www.digg.com/Seo_tips cause after the word in the the domain name, google gives high points to keyword in the url as i didnt go for my website something related games soi started this game development forum
as www.techbirbal.com/games
i got around 150 tips, but i dunno where to post it - th2edrrfs, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0@bobothn
Well, we're not talking about "blind people", we're talking about SEO - th2edrrfs, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2And google CAN read text inside of flash files, dummy.
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