Search Engine Optimization - I need your help

[Mike1]

I work every day to find new ways to get my boss' website higher up on the Search Engine rankings. Its a lot of work, no one way works perfectly. I will make a suggestion that may help.

It is a lot of effort and the sad part is most of it takes place without anyone ever seeing what has been done.

If we add a new bell or whistle, then the members see something has happened. If we submit another site map to a search engine, nobody ever knows about it.

The problem with trying to rely on one method is that the rules of the game are always changing. 16-18 months ago, submitting a site to link directories was a good plan. Now it appears there may be some penalty in using the link farms.

We just do what we can to make everything as keyword-rich as we can and then try to help steer the spiders to the keywords. One of my own sites is only about 6 weeks old and has ~1100 posts, but for one of our keywords, we're already #2 in the Google SERPs and #4 in the Yahoo SERPS. So some of these techniques I keep in my black bag are pretty effective.

However, as you pointed out, nothing can beat a load of inbound links.

[ccga3359]

It appears to be working. Yesterday I was googling MOD kilts in Maple Leaf and XMarks was the first two hits. Similar searches of poly-viscous brings up hits for kilts with this XMarks thread.

Well done Mike1 and Highland Tide for spreading the word.

[Daaaaang]

I just noticed this thread! Well, I will use my first post as a kilted samurai to promise to use tags from now on.

[Tommie]

Aaaa.(BLUSH) A Mike could you go thru all this again from the beginning?

I fell asleep.

[Panache]

Aaaa.(BLUSH) A Mike could you go thru all this again from the beginning?

I fell asleep.

and they never heard from Tommie ever again, there were rumours but they were too awful to repeat.