Do It Yourself SEO

[UBF]

Originally Posted by miskandar_es

Dear John...

Thank you for your answers.
Recently I am learning about the power of Anchor Text as you wrote on
http://blog.v7n.com/2006/02/02/inbou...d-anchor-text/

But I still don't understand clearly. One question I have is:
If I have anchor text, i.e = "web development" and I put this on my page, is it mean that other websites who have "web development" in their Page Title will vote my page automatically?

A few days ago I checked the backlinks at one of my websites. At the index html page, I used anchor text "web development" for example.
I found there is one website (my competitor) linked to me automatically. He use "web development" in his Page Title. I was surprised, but still not sure.
Thus I make a temporary conclusion: We should make Page Title of competitor sites = our anchor text to get better rank in Google.

Please let me know more about this. Thank u so much John ...

Hi Mes,

I know I'm not John and I'm not even close to being an expert of SEO. But I am almost 100% sure that these things are not related in any way.

When you use an anchor text it tells the search engine that the site the link is pointing to has something to do with the text used as an anchor.

I remember reading an article about the term "click here" which Adobe ranks highly for because so many sites links to the Adobe Reader.

So in short: The anchor text you use and the title of other sites are not related.

[djfire]

I have been trying to get a company to get my website in the top 10 for a while now, but they just want crazy money. How much would you expect to pay for this service ?

Anyone give me any help in promoting the sites?

[JoeWall]

hi john

very clear post. thanks,

i have one question for links. if i use title for links does that have an influence ? what i am doing is using titles of content for the anchor link and the beginning of content in title? or should i just use the same words for link and title

[John Scott]

The title attribute of links has never carried any weight in Google.

[Cristian Mezei]

Originally Posted by John Scott

The title attribute of links has never carried any weight in Google.

It give a small (< 0,1%) boost to the website that contains it though.

It's an extra content.

[MarthaWinslet]

Great tips ---JS. Congrats .....

[Carter]

Someone recommended a program called IBP (Internet Business Promoter). What do you think? Is it worth the money?

[Wolverine]

Just to contribute my 2c.

Here's a good website ranking the factors by importance. It is pretty objective since the factors are discussed by a number of experts.

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/searc...-factors.php#1

Great thread btw.

[barefootmentor]

Originally Posted by John Scott

Barefoot, we don't allow affiliate links here.

Live and Learn.

Really if people are really interested in getting many inbound links they can just do a google search on my name "Cindy McAsey" and contact me through my live online assistance buttons.

[jorgemontalvo]

These tips are interesting and in fact, I’ve used them in my web site but my question was oriented to dynamic pages. My site uses a shopping cart application called Comersus . In their site they say it includes SEO but I don’t know how to confirm this or edit title, metatags, etc. on my own since all the cart pages use ASP dynamic scripts. Any advice?

[Raazzaq]

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[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by John Scott

LOL. People do charge a ton of money for on-page SEO and for the most part, it's not worth it, IMHO.

Now, if they charge tens of thousands of dollars to build links to your site, that could be justifiable.

I really agree with you. Since link building is the life of a site. (like a plant sustained by water). Site is dead without links. I'm really sure about that! Proven by many.

[ezhel]

what a very nice information John!

[tpr]

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