Got A Website?

[kwatt]

Evening guys,

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 101…

If this is alien to you or not clear, please ask me to explain it.

One of the best, simplest, things that you can have to increase a website’s rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN and the rest (not that they are anywhere near as important) is high quality inbound links. That is to say that, for example if you have a link on a page ranked by Google on a PR5 (page rank 5) from an external website is is of greater value than one from a page with PR1.

Most pages are ranked on Google on a 1-10 scale unless they are unranked totally, i.e. PR0.

So on the WTA website you can submit your own link and, you can also do this on UKW in the weblinks section giving you two quality inbound links.

Now, this may seem a bit of a “why should I bother” type thing but, I can tell you why you should bother, because I know a lot more about SEO than I sometimes let on and I’m sure that Andy will back me on this one.

So the trick is to get your page ranked higher than the rest as, TBH, that’s as much as you can do and for the mere minutes it takes to submit a link where you can do, it can be worth it.

Basically, submit the link if you have a site to both. 😉

One coming back would be nice if possible, but not required.

Andy, shut it, I did yours as a matter of course to the WTA site as I did on here. 😆

K.

[andy_art_trigg]

Re: Got A Website?

kwatt wrote:
I can tell you why you should bother, because I know a lot more about SEO than I sometimes let on and I’m sure that Andy will back me on this one.

K.

You know a lot more, about a lot more than you let on K 😉

Good quality inbound links are vital for any web site and a link from UKW is definitely good quality.

[VillageIdiot2]

Re: Got A Website?

Speaking of links and websites n stuff, for those that dont know, the WTA website has a links page! If you guys (and gals) with websites want to register on the site (http://www.whitegoodstradeassociation.org), you can get a link put on the website for your Business…… It is definately worth getting one up there…..

Adrian 🙂

[Martin]

Re: Got A Website?

SEO is a fascinating aspect to website construction I have to admit, though I am somewhat puzzled as to how ones website can be optimised by linking it to other sites?

If I may use Adrain’s site as an example? Does anyone know what ranking his site has? 😉

[kwatt]

It’s inbound links you want Martin, not outbound although they can help if they remain relevant. So linking to sites to do with the subject to which your site relates can be a help.

K.

[andy_art_trigg]

Re: Got A Website?

Martin wrote:SEO is a fascinating aspect to website construction I have to admit, though I am somewhat puzzled as to how ones website can be optimised by linking it to other sites?

As K said Martin, it’s not linking to other sites that is effective, it’s other sites linking to yours. Google revolutionised search engines by counting inbound links as a vote of confidence. In a way it’s a cop out because instead of trying to work out if a site is any good themselves they simply decided that if lots of sites linked to it then it must be good. They also use the logic of, if a really big prominent site links to a related site then it is a trustworthy vote of confidence.

They had big problems though because people started selling links and setting up link farms so they had to adjust accordingly and inbound links are only a small part of the way they evaluate a site.

These days inbound links don’t have any where near the power they once had and if the link isn’t from a related site it’s probaby counting for very little or nothing at all, but links from a poweful site still count as part of the algorythm that Google uses – as long as it’s on topic.

A link from UKW to a site about ice cream is probably pointless from a search engine point of view but a link to a washing machine site should be worth brownie points.

[Martin]

Re: Got A Website?

andy_art_trigg wrote:A link from UKW to a site about ice cream is probably pointless from a search engine point of view but a link to a washing machine site should be worth brownie points.

Thanks for that clarification 🙂

That may account for the fact that in recent weeks I am getting a hell of a lot more work just from off the Internet. And getting very accustomed to the common phrase used these days… “I got your name off the Internet…..” 😉

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