Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
With a lot of hard work, MyDisk is starting to be listed top in google and msn for search terms such as "share disk online".
It would be nice to get better ranking for searches like "share files online" but there is so much competition that it could take years! I'm still waiting for google to calculate page ranks for mydisk.co.uk and hostyourself.net I'm hoping for at least a 4 because I've spent a lot of time getting inbound links.
If anyone tells you its easy to get listed highly in google, they obviously only tried for specific searches such as company names etc. SEO is certainly more challenging for commonly searched terms and the only way I've found of getting good results is by carefully placing and repeating words on the page. I don't like the wording on MyDisk.co.uk but this is the result of carefully targeted keywords.
Having said all this, I still feel that there are too many SEO companies on the web. I get SO much spam from them. They all claim to "submit your website to tens of thousands of search engines" etc. How many search engines do you use? Exactly, pointless.
I've seen an increasing number of web sites of the "get more hits" variety too. These claim to instantly give you thousands of "hits" or "unique visits". I looked into these and found this is exactly what they do. Good eh? NO! They use a large pool of IP addresses and automatically request your web page. No one views your page, they are just requested to increase your hit counter. What a total waste of Internet bandwidth!?
Anyway, rant over. If you want to help me, link to MyDisk.co.uk.
It would be nice to get better ranking for searches like "share files online" but there is so much competition that it could take years! I'm still waiting for google to calculate page ranks for mydisk.co.uk and hostyourself.net I'm hoping for at least a 4 because I've spent a lot of time getting inbound links.
If anyone tells you its easy to get listed highly in google, they obviously only tried for specific searches such as company names etc. SEO is certainly more challenging for commonly searched terms and the only way I've found of getting good results is by carefully placing and repeating words on the page. I don't like the wording on MyDisk.co.uk but this is the result of carefully targeted keywords.
Having said all this, I still feel that there are too many SEO companies on the web. I get SO much spam from them. They all claim to "submit your website to tens of thousands of search engines" etc. How many search engines do you use? Exactly, pointless.
I've seen an increasing number of web sites of the "get more hits" variety too. These claim to instantly give you thousands of "hits" or "unique visits". I looked into these and found this is exactly what they do. Good eh? NO! They use a large pool of IP addresses and automatically request your web page. No one views your page, they are just requested to increase your hit counter. What a total waste of Internet bandwidth!?
Anyway, rant over. If you want to help me, link to MyDisk.co.uk.
posted at 23:55:00 on 2006-07-12
by admin -
Category: Hosting and SEO
Comments
Siddhartha Gandhi wrote:
2006-07-14 22:47:44
admin wrote:
This post was made before I received my pagerank of 4.
I jumped from 0 to 4 on both mydisk.co.uk and hostyourself.net on the 14th of July. I plan to stop putting effort into SEO now the site is moving along and I have a pagerank.
Don't assume your page rank will continue to increase, it will remain constant if no new people link to you and you don't add new content.
I jumped from 0 to 4 on both mydisk.co.uk and hostyourself.net on the 14th of July. I plan to stop putting effort into SEO now the site is moving along and I have a pagerank.
Don't assume your page rank will continue to increase, it will remain constant if no new people link to you and you don't add new content.
2006-07-14 23:08:18
Siddhartha Gandhi wrote:
Well, I didn't do any SEO on most of my webistes, and they all have a pagerank of four now
http://www.xhalofilms.blogs...
http://www.gvhighlights.blo...
http://www.halovideos.co.nr
all 3 with a pr of 4
i read off of google's site that the longer your site is up, gradually the pagerank will go up, and SEO may increase it faster, though...
that's because older sites have superiority in the pagerank algorithm...
i read up on all the webmaster resources located here:
http://www.google.com/webma...
http://www.xhalofilms.blogs...
http://www.gvhighlights.blo...
http://www.halovideos.co.nr
all 3 with a pr of 4
i read off of google's site that the longer your site is up, gradually the pagerank will go up, and SEO may increase it faster, though...
that's because older sites have superiority in the pagerank algorithm...
i read up on all the webmaster resources located here:
http://www.google.com/webma...
2006-07-15 19:25:48
i was in a similar situation a few months ago when i made a halo videos site, and I deliberately put in metadata, excessive keywords, i submitted my site to topsites, search engine submissions, etc. etc.
it all started back when my pagerank was increased to 4
and i was like heck yeah i want 10 pagerank...so i started a whole affiliate program and tried to get people to link to me and it didnt get me anywhere...i stopped doing it...
i know you'll still do the SEO, but i'll tell you that its not worth wasting your time over this....just leaving your site and not doing anything will gradually increase your pagerank..