Tips n' Tricks

[flesso]

Does anyone have any good Search Engine Optimization tips and tricks that they would like to share?

[Jack]

You can find many informative articles over here-
http://blog.eukhost.com/category/seo-tutorials/

Hope this helps

[alan]

Hi Josh,

Jack has given you nice link, and if you are looking to optimize any specific area then please specify it to answer it in better manner .

[DPS Computing]

Yes, the eUKhost blog is full of lots of nice little bits of information to get you going with Search Engine Optimization and point you in the right direction.

[paul]

Yea, being a top hosting company eukhost.com has great article in their blog that not just limited to hosting and other similar stuff. I usually visit their blog and post when I get time.

[Peter]

One simple Search Engine Optimization tip would be to follow the guidelines laid down by Google and other major Search Engines and do not indulge in Black Hat SEO techniques as they would only inflate your rankings and link popularity temporarily.

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by Peter

One simple Search Engine Optimization tip would be to follow the guidelines laid down by Google and other major Search Engines and do not indulge in Black Hat SEO techniques as they would only inflate your rankings and link popularity temporarily.

Maybe someone can mention some of these "black hat Search Engine Optimization techniques" so that people reading the thread what to avoid at all costs?

I would myself but I don't think I am suitably qualified in this area to cover it sufficiently .

[paul]

Just search in google "Black Hat Search Engine Optimization", you will get dozens of site/forum and blogs for this. IMO for smart users few techniques are useful though.

[Ryan]

Some of the Black hat Search Engine Optimization techniques include Hidden Content within code, Keyword stuffing using white text on a white background, Cloaking, using tricky re-directs, blog spam etc.

[flesso]

Originally Posted by Ryan

Some of the Black hat Search Engine Optimization techniques include Hidden Content within code, Keyword stuffing using white text on a white background, Cloaking, using tricky re-directs, blog spam etc.

I love the hidden content idea. I always put a website hosting description in a hidden div on every page; so will google discount that and ignore that?

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by Ryan

Some of the Black hat Search Engine Optimization techniques include Hidden Content within code, Keyword stuffing using white text on a white background, Cloaking, using tricky re-directs, blog spam etc.

Can you go into more details about "tricky redirects". I redirect my main domain to a sub folder - I assume that is fine and I won't be penalised for that?

[paul]

Originally Posted by DPS Computing

Can you go into more details about "tricky redirects". I redirect my main domain to a sub folder - I assume that is fine and I won't be penalised for that?

I don't think you will be penalised for that, even you can do subfolder-redirect to your main domain, just check the path with the addon how you got the redirect/urls to work;

public_html---(htaccess redirect maindomain to folder 'X', mynewdomain to 'Y')
subfolder 'X' (maindomain.com)
subfolder 'Y' (mynewdomain.com)

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by DPS Computing

Can you go into more details about "tricky redirects". I redirect my main domain to a sub folder - I assume that is fine and I won't be penalised for that?

Tricky re-directs are better known as Doorway pages. These are web pages that are created for spamming the index of a search engine by inserting results for particular phrases with the purpose of sending you to a different page.

The intention is to rank high in the search engines for a particular keyword and then direct the arriving visitors further into the website hosting.

[DPS Computing]

Thanks for the help paul and for the explanation Ryan .

[sb123]

Hope this helps:

Google normally reads your web page from upper left to lower right. And, normally any webpage has a column of navigation links on the left side-bar, and the body of content-text on its right. What Google does here is (not as a rule, but it happens on most occassions), it reads the first column (upper left) and finds a link there, and then it goes and checks that link, before coming to your body (content) column!

To make Google still come to your Content column before going to the nav-links, JUST insert a row on the nav-bar and keep it blank! So, Google will read that column and find a blank --- or a simple text - try putting your best keyword here without a link (in the first row of that left column). Goggle will come to the content column immediately after reading the keyword, and then will find the associated content in the body (content) column!

It will read the entire content column, and then will go to the nav-bar next row.

Try this technique and if you find any good result, then please give a feed back.

[DPS Computing]

Thanks for that insight sb123 - I've learned a lot from your last post .