Do It Yourself SEO

John Scott · 05-06-2004, 06:29 AM

Effective Search Engine Optimization

Edited to update.

Lily · 09-17-2006, 09:58 PM

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I don't do SEO for new clients and I don't even like doing it for my old clients.

I don't even like to do it for myself

Thanks very much for this succinct post. Well put!

Lilly

p.s. Thanks also for the list of a couple directories I've not heard of 'til now.

theChronic · 09-18-2006, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

Step One

Build a site without session ID's. Build a site which either has static URLs are URLs that appear to be static. The fewer parameters in the URL, the better. After all, what's the use of optimizing a page if it's never going to make it into the search engine's index?

An example of a URL with session ID's:
http://www.webmaster-forum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=19

A cleaner URL:
http://www.webmaster-forum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=7

looks like some nice session IDs

great article though john

vistadivine.com · 09-18-2006, 10:33 PM

Do-it-yourself is the best way of SEO. Nice article John!

Akash Kumar

daboss · 09-18-2006, 11:43 PM

basic but well written and organized...

thanks for the good read...

justtupeu · 09-19-2006, 06:51 AM

Nice pointing out of the basics

ajshroff · 09-19-2006, 04:55 PM

Thanks John.

p.mukherjee · 09-24-2006, 12:46 PM

great article john.
Thanx

vistadivine.com · 09-26-2006, 11:03 AM

Just wanted to ask John that does forum posting really helps in improving ranks it does improve PR but what about rankings.

Akash Kumar

priyo · 09-26-2006, 02:06 PM

Excellent post John. Thanks.

loon · 09-28-2006, 09:06 PM

it benefit me a lot... thx

pnelson · 10-03-2006, 07:10 AM

Thanks for that!

also,

http://www.123promotion.co.uk/directorymanager/

i found this tool very useful for manual directory submissions. Lists all directories by PR and fee.

mhuggins · 10-03-2006, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

Build a site without session ID's. Build a site which either has static URLs are URLs that appear to be static. The fewer parameters in the URL, the better. After all, what's the use of optimizing a page if it's never going to make it into the search engine's index?

An example of a URL with session ID's:
http://www.webmaster-forum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=19

A cleaner URL:
http://www.webmaster-forum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Am I missing something here? I'm not seeing the difference other than the number on the end. How is the latter URL cleaner than the former?

Tyler Banfield · 10-03-2006, 04:14 PM

Always good to read a SEO refresher

John Scott · 10-04-2006, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by mhuggins

Am I missing something here? I'm not seeing the difference other than the number on the end. How is the latter URL cleaner than the former?

Our kind forum software removed the damn session ID's in the link I posted.

mhuggins · 10-04-2006, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

Our kind forum software removed the damn session ID's in the link I posted.

Okay, as long as I'm not going crazy, that's fine

dreamsubmitting · 10-05-2006, 07:58 AM

hey this is very important for any seo and should be done from self.

Mchilly · 10-05-2006, 10:18 AM

Thanks...great idea, put more tips here

keerap · 10-05-2006, 06:44 PM

Excellent post, thanks for the information.

Manish Pandey · 10-05-2006, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

Our kind forum software removed the damn session ID's in the link I posted.

let me try...

http://www.webmaster-forum.net/forum...D=sak9e2sdd876

... Just a try....

The basic thing to note is the session IDs... they should be removed... so that search engine bots can easily crawl your website...