Please Add My Site

[cctek]

Here is my link information I’d like you to add to your site:

 

1. http://www.majestek.com

 

2. Majestek Solutions

 

3. We specialize in web design, development, and custom programming for small business.

 

4. There is a link for TCH on http://www.majestek.com/links.com which is on the info page.

 

Rank Evaluation (Please)

[Deverill]

Someone will be along to add you to the Family index soon. We're doing some restructuring and reassigning duties to fill in the gaps.

 

Page Rank eval:

If you move your javascript to an external file and use just a call to it the Search Engines (SE) will have an easier time sorting through your page.

 

Concentrate on keyword phrases you want to rank highly for such as "Wisconsin website design" or whatever you feel is the term people will use when looking for a service such as yours. If you concentrate on these phrases in your meta keywords, headers, title, etc you will do better than a shotgun approach to single words. "Waukesha web design" is probably going to be a good phrase for you and it's good that you have that phrase in your title and bolded in the text as well.

 

Take advantage of the meta description. It is the text many search engines will place with your link and is a good place to really make your site shine. Use it to sell yourself.

 

Links from established sites will be vital to getting listed and with Google it's important to get high ranking. You should submit to free directories and other sites and work on getting as many links back to you as you can. The SE's send out programs called spiders to find new pages and they follow links from pages they already know about. That is the fastest and best way to get listed.

 

Hang in there, nothing changes quickly in the search engine world except the rules.

[cctek]

Links from established sites will be vital to getting listed and with Google it's important to get high ranking. You should submit to free directories and other sites and work on getting as many links back to you as you can.

I have spent many many hours looking for free directories and I can't seem to tell which ones are good and which ones could cause me a problem. I have read in other forums that if you are in the wrong directory (link farm) that it can cause you to get penalized from search engines. I have also read that you should only exchange links with related sites.

 

Do you know of any GOOD sites that rate these free link exchanges? Do you know if there is any good sites or information on internet marketing (without buying an ebook)? Thanks in advance for any help.

Rock Sign

[Deverill]

I have read in other forums that if you are in the wrong directory (link farm) that it can cause you to get penalized from search engines.

 

I have also read that you should only exchange links with related sites.

The last point first, if a site is related to yours and links to you then that's a better link than a site that 's totally unrelated. For one thing, the visitors to the first site are more likely interested in yours and for another, some search engines give it more value too.

 

Now, I don't know or want to know what forum you were reading but I'll say be careful of what you read and weigh it with common sense. If a link from a bad site would hurt your ranking, and if I was your competitor, what do you think I would do if I were dishonest? I'd submit your site to every fruitcake fly-by-night link farm I could find and *poof* you'd be out of my face and I'd be getting all the business. This is exactly why links from a bad site won't hurt you.

 

You are personally responsible for what you link to, however, so if you link to junk then you'll suffer the consequences.

 

Keep your eyes open and search for things like "high search engine rankings" "search engine forum" and the likes. Use common sense to evaluate what you read and not what they say their level of expertise is, question everything you hear, believe only a fraction of it, look for proof and you'll be where the rest of us are - not knowing what to believe

 

Seriously, you can usually tell from the attitude of a person whether they know what they are talking about. Also consider the person's investment in the site. For example, Web Pro News accepts articles from guest writers. A couple lately have been a bit "out there" but considering the author's reputation is not really at stake they are less likely to worry about accuracy. Now the guys behind WPN, however, make mistakes and let these bozos slip through but they themselves are not as likely to start blathering about the latest rumor. If a person has their reputation on the line at a site then they MAY be more reliable than a guest author.

 

Also look for folks with online forums where people can challeng their statements and see how they reply. You can say that Joe Host over there has a lousy service and we might believe it. If you say that about Head Guru the we just look at his reply and see what kind of person he is and decide you're goofy.

 

Hope it helps!

[TCH-Dick]

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