How do I get my website popular without the learning curve?
Ok, Im a good Christian man. Ive been working hard at SEO and SEM, considered blackhat, know a bit of white hat and can generate a few visitors. But if you would, please, just show me the window. Things can be arranged.
Crosley
Advertise it? Make a signature line for all outgoing emails that include your website URL. Make sure you have something of interest on your page!
Content, content and more content. Ya wanna know the big secret that every SEO firm doesn’t want you to know? SEO is a waste of money.
SEO, SEM, and anything else that says it can boost your PageRank, it’s all crap.
The ONLY way a page gets high on the list is to have content that people want to see, that refreshes daily. Check this page out:
Joel has a pagerank of 7…I know bloggers who would murder to have that. Ya know what else? He hasn’t spent a dime on SEO. Neither have the guys over at stackoverflow.com…pagerank of 6.
Or how about Digg.com. Pagerank of 8. Zero SEO!
These people know something: SEO is crap, you need content or your site will go nowhere. No-freakin-where.
If you have a site that is just regular business brochure that does not change, you won’t get a PageRank past 3, unless you buoy it with something, such as a respectable blog or other dynamic, interesting content.
Your black hat/white hat comment is confusing, at best. You cannot hack your way to the top of Google. Try it, and Google will likely kick you out entirely. This isn’t some rinky-dink operation you’re messing with…it’s freakin Google. They are smarter than you, and you can’t fool them.
Get content, or be happy with a low pagerank.
Hello,
The vast majority of the time the top results on google are either showering search engines with money or have paid experts to come in and optimize their website. Neither is cheap – I have a close associate who actually paid over 15k a while back to have his page come up on the top results – not really much if you can make it back in profits though. I disagree with the above poster because now this guy generates over half a million in yearly sales – so SEO optimization is well worth the money.
Pay per click advertising is a good start for a moderate budget – it really doesn’t bring that much of a return though.
As for your actual SEO make absolute certain that your page’s content is keyword heavy. Pick around 10-15 different keywords and use them over and over again inside your content so the search engines know that your page is relevant to the meta tags. It is also important to add as many pages as possible to your website – in the beginning months it is suggested to try to write 10-20 new LANDING pages that are keyword heavy – the more pages, the more the search engine will like you. It could also be beneficial to add a site map at the bottom of the page; search engines like linked pages.
If you have any further questions, feel free to contact me via email through my profile!
Good Luck!
Edit: I would also like to add one thing… Not sure if the above examples used by Coder are applicable. It totally depends on the website to be honest. If you are selling a product then SEO is definitely something that needs to be considered because all of your competition is trying to cut ahead with it. If its a blog – well, content is the only thing going for you. It is also a fine art to be able to type things that sound pleasant to the ear but are also keyword heavy – this would get you extremely far.
Now the question you need to ask yourself is: Is it worth leaving out SEO because some random guy on yahoo answers told you a couple sites made it to the top without it? Sure content is everything but don’t cheat yourself because all of your google competition is taking that extra step to get a higher score.
Hey Coder, not everyone knows what SEO is, let alone how to optimize their own websites. If you create a website and keep adding content after content, with no title tags, no relevant keywords, no meta descriptions, no relevant permalinks, you think that is going to create the most effective search engine rankings? I sure hope not. If you don’t know the SEO basics, then you and your website could surely benefit from simple SEO on page optimization implementations. You must be referring to how SEO firms go about building links when you say they are useless because any worthy SEO firm will implement on-page optimizations which lead to better SERP’s.