Hi guys. I'm in the process of selecting keywords for my website. Some of them are: hotel, resort, golf, sign, signs & signage. Now my questions:
1. Is it ok as I typed them above or do I have to list each phrase individually- hotel, hotel sign, hotel signs, hotel signage, resort, resort sign, resort signs, resort signage, golf, golf sign, golf signs, golf signage? 2. Does it make a difference if they're capitalized? 3. Does the order I type them in make a difference?
Thanks always!
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
nope. makes no difference. just type them in, however, be aware the search engines to not fully rely on keywords. They do not have to be in the for front either. you can put them the html source code sections rather be fully visible on the webpage.
Posted by Felix Marcano (Member # 1833) on :
I'm not actually doing this, & they guy doing it is doing me no favors. Could you tell me exactly where they should go?
Thanks a bunch!
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Your website is defined by html code. No matter what you see its all defined by code. You place these keywords in the headers section of the html this goes on the first page.
Posted by Fred Weiss (Member # 3662) on :
The keywords and description are best placed in the "head" section of the page. You can look at any page on any site by just selecting "source code" or "view source" (depending on which browser you are using and all the code comes up in notepad.
The code looks like this:
{meta name="keywords" content="example 1,example 2"/} {meta name="description" content="place your site description here"/}
I have substituted brackets for <> in the above example.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Just dont fill the pages with keywords because the search engines will view that as "keyword spam", then your pages won't get indexed at all.
Put them in the HEAD, use keywords that describe your site and you can list them as individual words or phrases. You might even include common mispellings.
Posted by Rovelle W. Gratz (Member # 4404) on :
I have a Website concerning my Wildfowl Carvings that I need to do something with but don't have much of a clue what kewords would help.
I also have what I call Golf Club Birds on the same site, which I want to draw people to.
I know I should probably go to the front page site and could get some help, but I haven't made the time yet.
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Felix..as others have said..the keywords go in the meta tags..Don't overdo it though. Right off the bat I'd say to forget the word "signage"...customers don't use that term. They think "sign" or "signs"
Also...I would recommend adding your location to the keywords...like...Luquillo and Puerto Rico.
Remember, Keywords are just that... Key WORDS, not phrases.If you want phrases place them in the "description" part of the meta tags.
A good suggestion that Mike hinted at would be for you to type in a search for something you do and go to the first website that comes up. Check out their meta "keywords", by using "View>Source" and see how they have things worded. There is a reason why their site came up first, use it to your advantage. There are no copyrights on meta tag keywords or descriptions!!!!!
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Even with the best keywords in your metatag source code, you won't likely come up at the top of the first page.
If you're really serious about getting results from your website invest in a monthly advertising budget. Use Google adwords or Oververture pay per click advertising. In this day in age you have to to spend money on the internet if you intend to make money off the internet.
I cancelled my local yellow page advertising and opted for internet advertising. I spend $150 a month between the two but get incredible results and return on my investment.
Marketing effectively on the internet is a science as well as an art today. It does work and I will personally attest to that fact.
Posted by Jim Pooler (Member # 3471) on :
Here is some interesting reading about Google. Googlebot web spider Being linked by a lot of other sites appears to be fairly important unless you are paying for Google Adwords.
[ October 28, 2004, 01:10 AM: Message edited by: Jim Pooler ]
Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :
Once the site is up, go to DMOZ and register it with them in whatever category is the most appropriate. http://dmoz.org/help/submit.html In the past it has proven to be a good way to have your site pull a decent ranking to a search, although it will take a few weeks. The affiliations and algorythms used by search engines changes almost daily, DMOZ (as far as I am aware) is still a respected root source for most search engines so long as you keep within their guidelines HTH David David
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Felix,
Don't know if it still works these days, but adding the keywords to your front page in the same color as the backround usually generates extra hits. Just stack them with spaces on the bottom.
Hope this helps... Rapid
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Not a good idea Ray. It's called cloaking and the search engines will ban your site if they catch you doing it.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Guess it don't work these days after all.
Thanks, Bob. Didn't know that. Rapid
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
The way to best promote yourself on the web (without paying a premium) keeps changing- as people figure out how to 'trick' the search engines into giving them preference, the programmers behing the search engines learn to counteract that.
What worked well one year won't necessarilty work the next.
This website has monthly newsletters and you can search back issues for varying feature articles on optimisation & cautions etc. There's some good stuff IMHO.
