Search engine optimization for dummies:
Looks at the basics of search engines and describes how to build a search-engine-friendly site, ways to add a site to indexes and databases, and using and finding links.
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Introduction.
................................................................. 1
About This Book
...............................................................................................1
Foolish Assumptions
.......................................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized
...........................................................................3
Part I: Search Engine Basics
..................................................................3
Part II: Building Search Engine-Friendly Sites
....................................3
Part III: Adding Your Site to the Indexes and Directories
..................4
Part IV: After You ve Submitted Your Site
...........................................4
Part V: The Part of Tens
.........................................................................4
Appendix
.................................................................................................4
Icons Used in This Book
..................................................................................5
Part
h
Search Engine Basics
..........................................7
Chapter
1:
Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
...............9
Investigating Search Engines and Directories
............................................10
Search indexes or search engines
......................................................10
Search directories
................................................................................11
Non-spidered indexes
..........................................................................12
Pay-per-click systems
..........................................................................13
Keeping the terms straight
..................................................................13
Why bother with search engines?
......................................................14
Where Do People Search?
.............................................................................15
Search Engine Magic
......................................................................................19
How do they do it?
...............................................................................19
Stepping into the programmers shoes
.............................................20
Gathering Your Tools
.....................................................................................21
Search toolbars
.....................................................................................22
Alexa
toolbar
.........................................................................................24
Chapter
2:
Your One-Hour Search Engine-Friendly
Web Site Makeover
..........................................25
Is Your Site Indexed?
......................................................................................25
Google
....................................................................................................26
Yahoo! and MSN Live Search
...............................................................28
Yahoo! Directory
...................................................................................28
Open Directory Project
........................................................................29
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Taking Action If You re Not Listed
................................................................29
Is your site invisible?
...........................................................................30
Unreadable navigation
.........................................................................30
Dealing with dynamic pages
...............................................................31
Picking Good Keywords
................................................................................32
Examining Your Pages
...................................................................................33
Using frames
.........................................................................................34
Looking at the TITLE tags
....................................................................35
Examining the DESCRIPTION tag
........................................................36
Giving search engines something to read
.........................................37
Getting Your Site Indexed
..............................................................................39
Chapter
3:
Planning Your Search Engine Strategy
................41
Don t Trust Your Web Designer
....................................................................41
Understanding the Limitations
.....................................................................42
Eyeing the Competition
.................................................................................43
Going Beyond Getting to
#1..........................................................................47
Highly targeted keyword phrases
......................................................47
Understanding the search tail
............................................................47
Controlling Search Engine Variables
............................................................50
Keywords
...............................................................................................50
Content
..................................................................................................50
Page optimization
.................................................................................51
Submissions
..........................................................................................51
Links
.......................................................................................................52
Time and the Google sandbox
............................................................52
Determining Your Plan of Attack
..................................................................53
Two Things to Remember
.............................................................................55
Chapter
4:
Making Your Site Useful and Visible
..................57
Revealing the Secret but Essential Rule of Web Success
..........................59
The evolving, incorrect secret
.........................................................59
Uncovering the real secret
..................................................................60
Showing a bias for content
..................................................................61
Making Your Site Work Well
..........................................................................62
Limiting multimedia
.............................................................................62
Using text, not graphics
.......................................................................62
Avoiding the urge to be too clever
.....................................................63
Don t be cute
.........................................................................................64
Making it easy to move around
..........................................................64
Providing different routes
...................................................................65
Using long link text
...............................................................................65
Don t keep restructuring
.....................................................................66
Editing and checking spelling
............................................................66
Ugly doesn t sell
...................................................................................66
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Part
Ih
Building Search
Engine-Friendty Sites..............69
Chapter
5:
Picking Powerful Keywords
.........................71
Understanding the Importance of Keywords
.............................................72
Thinking Like Your Prey
................................................................................73
Starting Your Keyword Analysis
...................................................................74
Identifying the obvious keywords
......................................................74
Looking at your Web site s access logs
.............................................74
Examining competitors keyword tags
..............................................75
Brainstorming
with colleagues
...........................................................75
Looking closely at your list
.................................................................75
Using a Keyword Tool
....................................................................................78
Using Wordtracker
.........................................................................................81
Creating a Wordtracker project
..........................................................83
Adding keywords to your initial project list
.....................................85
Cleaning up the list
..............................................................................88
Exporting the list
..................................................................................89
Performing competitive analysis
........................................................89
Finding keywords more ways
.............................................................92
Choosing Your Keywords
..............................................................................92
Removing unhelpful terms
..................................................................92
Picking combinations
...........................................................................94
Yet More Keyword Tools
...............................................................................95
Chapter
6:
Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
.............97
Preparing Your Site
........................................................................................97
Finding a hosting company
.................................................................98
Picking a domain name
........................................................................98
Seeing Through a Search Engine s Eyes
....................................................100
Understanding Keyword Concepts
............................................................103
Picking one or two phrases per page
..............................................103
Checking prominence
........................................................................104
Watching density
................................................................................104
Placing keywords throughout your site
..........................................105
Creating Your Web Pages
............................................................................106
Naming files
.........................................................................................106
Creating directory structure
.............................................................106
Viewing TITLE tags
.............................................................................107
Using the DESCRIPTION
meta
tag
....................................................108
Tapping into the KEYWORDS
meta
tag
............................................110
Using other
meta
tags
........................................................................
Ill
Including image ALT text
...................................................................113
Adding body text
................................................................................113
Creating headers: CSS versus <H> tags
...........................................114
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Formatting text
...................................................................................115
Creating links
......................................................................................116
Using other company and product names
......................................117
Creating navigation structures that search engines can read
......118
Blocking searchbots
...........................................................................119
Chapter
7:
Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
...........121
Dealing with Frames
....................................................................................121
The HTML Nitty-Gritty of Frames
...............................................................123
Providing search engines with the necessary information
...........125
Providing a navigation path
..............................................................126
Opening pages in a frameset
.............................................................128
Handling iframes
..........................................................................................129
Fixing Invisible Navigation Systems
...........................................................129
Looking at the source code
...............................................................130
Turning off scripting and Java
..........................................................132
Fixing the problem
.............................................................................133
Flush the Flash animation
...........................................................................133
Avoiding Embedded Text in Images
...........................................................135
Reducing the Clutter in Your Web Pages
...................................................135
Use external JavaScripts
...................................................................137
Use document.write to remove problem code
...............................137
Use external CSS files
.........................................................................138
Move image maps to the bottom of the page
.................................139
Avoid the urge to copy and paste from MS Word
...........................139
Managing Dynamic Web Pages
...................................................................139
Determining whether your dynamic pages are
scaring off search engines
.............................................................
HI
Fixing your dynamic Web page problem
.........................................142
Using Session IDs in URLs
...........................................................................143
Examining Cookie-Based Navigation
.........................................................146
Fixing Bits and Pieces
..................................................................................148
Forwarded pages
................................................................................148
Image maps
.........................................................................................148
Special characters
..............................................................................149
Chapter
8:
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
.......................151
Tricking Search Engines
..............................................................................152
Deciding whether to trick
..................................................................152
Figuring out the tricks
.......................................................................153
Do these tricks work?
........................................................................154
Concrete Shoes, Cyanide, TNT
—
An Arsenal for Dirty Deeds
..............154
Keyword stacking and stuffing
.........................................................155
Hiding (and shrinking) keywords
.....................................................156
Hiding links
............................................... ........
.Z . . .Z .
....................158
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pages and sites
..............................................................158
Page
swapping and page jacking
......................................................159
Doorway and
Information Pages
................................................................159
Using Redirects and Cloaking
.....................................................................160
Understanding redirects
....................................................................161
Examining cloaking............................................................................
162
Tricks
versus
Strategies
..............................................................................163
Paying the Ultimate Penalty
........................................................................164
Chapter
9:
Bulking Up Your Site
—
Competing with Content
......167
Creating Content Three Ways
.....................................................................168
Writing Your Own Stuff
................................................................................169
Summarizing online articles
..............................................................169
Reviewing Web sites
...........................................................................170
Reviewing products
............................................................................170
Convincing Someone Else to Write It
.........................................................170
Using OPC
—
Other People s Content
.......................................................171
Understanding Copyright
—
It s Not Yours!
.............................................172
Hunting for Other People s Content
..........................................................174
Keywords
.............................................................................................174
Product information
...........................................................................175
Web sites and e-mail newsletters
.....................................................175
Government sources
..........................................................................177
Content-syndication sites
..................................................................178
Traditional syndication services
......................................................181
RSS syndication feeds
........................................................................182
Open content and copyleft
................................................................184
Search results pages
..........................................................................185
Pressreleases
.....................................................................................185
Q&A areas
............................................................................................186
Message boards
..................................................................................187
Blogs
.....................................................................................................187
A Word about Duplicated Content
.............................................................188
Chapter
10:
Finding Traffic via Geo-Targeting
...................191
Understanding Geo-Targeting s Importance
.............................................192
Looking Through Local Search
...................................................................192
How Does Local Search Work?
...................................................................195
Search terms
.......................................................................................195
Partner sites
........................................................................................195
IP numbers
..........................................................................................195
Reaching People Locally
.............................................................................198
Registering for Local Search
.......................................................................199
Finding More Local Systems
.......................................................................201
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Part
Uh
Adding /our Site to the Indexes
and Directories
..........................................................203
Chapter
11:
Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
.........205
Determining Why Your Pages Aren t Being Indexed
................................205
Linking Your Site for Inclusion
...................................................................206
Submitting Directly to the Major Systems
................................................207
Why submitting is safe
......................................................................207
Submitting for free
..............................................................................207
Submitting an XML Sitemap
........................................................................208
Creating your sitemap
.......................................................................210
Submitting your sitemaps
.................................................................211
Webmaster tools, too
.........................................................................214
Using Paid Inclusion
....................................................................................215
Excluding inclusion
............................................................................216
Using trusted feeds
............................................................................218
Submitting to Secondary Systems
.............................................................219
Using Registration Services and Software Programs
..............................220
Chapter
12:
Submitting to the Directories
.......................223
Pitting Search Directories Against Search Engines
..................................223
Why Are Directories So Significant?
..........................................................225
Submitting to the Search Directories
........................................................226
Submitting to Yahoo! Directory
........................................................226
Submitting to the Open Directory Project
......................................230
Understanding different link types
..................................................231
Submitting to Second-Tier Directories
......................................................231
Finding second-tier directories
........................................................231
Avoiding payment
—
most of the time
............................................232
Chapter
13:
Buried Treasure
—
More Great Places to
Submit Your Site
............................................235
Keeping a Landscape Log
............................................................................236
Finding the Specialized Directories
...........................................................237
Finding directories other ways
........................................................238
Local directories
.................................................................................240
Bothering with directories
................................................................240
Getting the link
...................................................................................241
Working with the Yellow Pages
...................................................................242
Getting into the Yellow Pages
.....................................................................245
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Chapter
14:
Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
.........249
Why Search Engines Like Links
..................................................................249
Understanding Page Value and PageRank
.................................................251
PageRank
—
One part of the equation
............................................252
The PageRank algorithm
...................................................................253
Huge sites equal greater PageRank
..................................................255
Measuring PageRank
..........................................................................256
Leaking PageRank
...............................................................................259
Page Relevance
.............................................................................................260
Hubs and Neighborhoods
...........................................................................261
Trust in TrustRank
.......................................................................................262
Inserting Keywords into Links
....................................................................263
The Googlebomblives
.......................................................................264
Good Links and Bad
.....................................................................................265
Recognizing Links with No Value
...............................................................266
Identifying links that aren t links
......................................................267
Identifying nofollow links
..................................................................268
Recalling a Few Basic Rules about Links
...................................................269
Chapter
15:
Finding Sites to Link to Yours
.......................271
Controlling Your Links
.................................................................................272
Generating Links, Step by Step
...................................................................273
Register with search directories
......................................................275
Ask friends and family
.......................................................................275
Ask employees
....................................................................................275
Contact association sites
..................................................................276
Contact manufacturers Web sites
...................................................276
Contact companies you do business with
......................................276
Ask to be a featured client
.................................................................277
Submit to announcement sites and newsletters
............................277
Send out press releases
.....................................................................278
Create a little linkbait
.....................................................................279
Find sites linking to your competition
.............................................279
Ask other sites for links
.....................................................................282
Make reciprocal link requests
...........................................................282
Use link-building software and services
..........................................288
Respond to reciprocal link requests
................................................289
Search for keyword add
uri
...............................................................289
Contact e-mail newsletters
................................................................291
Mention your site in discussion groups
..........................................292
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Respond to blogs
................................................................................292
Pursue offline PR
................................................................................292
Give away content
..............................................................................293
Advertise
.............................................................................................293
Use a service or buy links
.................................................................293
Just wait
...............................................................................................296
Fuggetaboutit
......................................................................................296
Chapter
16:
Even More Great Places to Get Links
................299
Got Content? Syndicate It!
...........................................................................299
Four ways to syndicate
......................................................................301
Getting the most out of syndication
................................................302
Getting the word out
..........................................................................303
Syndication services
..........................................................................304
Syndicating utilities
............................................................................305
Social Networking
........................................................................................305
Video sites
.....................................................................................................
307
And More
....................................................................................................308
The nofollow Curse
......................................................................................308
Who s Going to Do All This Work?!
............................................................309
Chapter
17:
Using Shopping Directories and Retailers
...........311
Finding the Shopping Directories
..............................................................311
Google Product Search
......................................................................313
Yahoo! Shopping
.................................................................................314
Shopping.com
.....................................................................................316
PriceGrabber and PrecioMania
........................................................318
BizRate
&
Shopzilla
............................................................................318
NexTag
.................................................................................................318
Pricewatch
...........................................................................................319
PriceSCAN
...........................................................................................320
More Shopping Services
..............................................................................321
Third-Party Merchant Sites
.........................................................................323
Creating Data Files
.......................................................................................324
The data you need
..............................................................................325
Formatting guidelines
........................................................................326
Creating your spreadsheet
................................................................327
Getting those product URLs
..............................................................327
Creating individual sheets
.................................................................329
Creating and uploading your data files
...........................................332
Chapter
18:
Paying Per Click
..................................335
Defining PPC
.................................................................................................335
The two types of ads
..........................................................................338
Pros and cons
........................................................................339
The three PPC tiers
............................................................................340
Where do these ads go?
.....................................................................342
It may not work!
..................................................................................342
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Valuing Your Clicks
......................................................................................344
The value of the action
......................................................................344
Your online conversion rate
..............................................................345
Figuring the click price
......................................................................345
Different clicks equals different values
...........................................346
They Won t Take My Ad!
..............................................................................346
Automating the Task
....................................................................................348
Part V: The Part of Tens
.............................................351
Chapter
19:
Ten-Plus Ways to Stay Updated
.....................353
Let Me Help Some More
..............................................................................353
The Search Engines Themselves
................................................................354
Google s Webmaster Pages
.........................................................................354
Yahooľs
Search Help
....................................................................................354
MSN/Live Search s
SEO
Tips
.......................................................................355
Ask.com FAQ
.................................................................................................355
Search Engine Watch
...................................................................................355
The Official Google Webmaster Help Group
.............................................355
Google s Inside Scoop
..................................................................................356
WebMaster World
.........................................................................................356
HighRankings.com
.......................................................................................356
Yahooľs
Search Engine Optimization Resources Category
....................356
The Open Directory Project Search Categories
.......................................357
Get the Search Engine Buzz
........................................................................357
Chapter
20:
Ten Myths and Mistakes
...........................359
Myth: It s All about
Meta
Tags and Submissions
......................................359
Myth: Web Designers and Developers Understand Search Engines
......360
Myth: Multiple Submissions Improve Your Search Position
..................360
Mistake: You Don t Know Your Keywords
.................................................361
Mistake: Too Many Pages with Database Parameters
and Session IDs
.........................................................................................361
Mistake: Building the Site and Then Bringing in the
SEO
Expert
...........361
Myth:
$25
Can Get Your Site a
#1
Position
................................................362
Myth: Google Partners Get You
#1
Positions
............................................362
Mistake: You Don t Have Pages Optimized for Specific Keywords
........363
Mistake: Your Pages Are Empty
..................................................................363
Myth: Pay Per Click Is Where It s At
...........................................................363
Chapter
21:
Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
....................365
Creating Multi-Line Search Results
............................................................365
What Is Enhanced Image Search?
...............................................................366
Checking Your Site Rank
.............................................................................366
Checking for Broken Links
..........................................................................368
Google Toolbar
.............................................................................................369
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Alexa
Toolbar
................................................................................................370
Install Firebug
...............................................................................................370
Seeing What Search Engines See
................................................................371
Finding Your Keyword Density
...................................................................372
Analyzing Your Site s Traffic
.......................................................................373
Checking for Duplication and Theft
...........................................................374
More Tools
....................................................................................................375
Using
301
Redirects
......................................................................................375
What Is Universal Search?
...........................................................................375
Don t Forget the Search Engines
................................................................376
Appendix: Staying Out of Copyright Jail
......................377
If It s Really Old, You Can Use It
.................................................................377
If the Guvmint Created It, You Can Use It
..................................................379
If It s Donated, You Can Use It
.....................................................................379
It s Only Fair
—
Fair Use Explained
............................................................380
Index
........................................................................381
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Introduction.
. 1
About This Book
.1
Foolish Assumptions
.2
How This Book Is Organized
.3
Part I: Search Engine Basics
.3
Part II: Building Search Engine-Friendly Sites
.3
Part III: Adding Your Site to the Indexes and Directories
.4
Part IV: After You've Submitted Your Site
.4
Part V: The Part of Tens
.4
Appendix
.4
Icons Used in This Book
.5
Part
h
Search Engine Basics
.7
Chapter
1:
Surveying the Search Engine Landscape
.9
Investigating Search Engines and Directories
.10
Search indexes or search engines
.10
Search directories
.11
Non-spidered indexes
.12
Pay-per-click systems
.13
Keeping the terms straight
.13
Why bother with search engines?
.14
Where Do People Search?
.15
Search Engine Magic
.19
How do they do it?
.19
Stepping into the programmers' shoes
.20
Gathering Your Tools
.21
Search toolbars
.22
Alexa
toolbar
.24
Chapter
2:
Your One-Hour Search Engine-Friendly
Web Site Makeover
.25
Is Your Site Indexed?
.25
Google
.26
Yahoo! and MSN Live Search
.28
Yahoo! Directory
.28
Open Directory Project
.29
)C¡¡
Search
Engine
Optimization For Dummies,
3rd
Edition
Taking Action If You're Not Listed
.29
Is your site invisible?
.30
Unreadable navigation
.30
Dealing with dynamic pages
.31
Picking Good Keywords
.32
Examining Your Pages
.33
Using frames
.34
Looking at the TITLE tags
.35
Examining the DESCRIPTION tag
.36
Giving search engines something to read
.37
Getting Your Site Indexed
.39
Chapter
3:
Planning Your Search Engine Strategy
.41
Don't Trust Your Web Designer
.41
Understanding the Limitations
.42
Eyeing the Competition
.43
Going Beyond Getting to
#1.47
Highly targeted keyword phrases
.47
Understanding the search tail
.47
Controlling Search Engine Variables
.50
Keywords
.50
Content
.50
Page optimization
.51
Submissions
.51
Links
.52
Time and the Google sandbox
.52
Determining Your Plan of Attack
.53
Two Things to Remember
.55
Chapter
4:
Making Your Site Useful and Visible
.57
Revealing the Secret but Essential Rule of Web Success
.59
The evolving, incorrect "secret"
.59
Uncovering the real secret
.60
Showing a bias for content
.61
Making Your Site Work Well
.62
Limiting multimedia
.62
Using text, not graphics
.62
Avoiding the urge to be too clever
.63
Don't be cute
.64
Making it easy to move around
.64
Providing different routes
.65
Using long link text
.65
Don't keep restructuring
.66
Editing and checking spelling
.66
Ugly doesn't sell
.66
Table
of Contents
Part
Ih
Building Search
Engine-Friendty Sites.69
Chapter
5:
Picking Powerful Keywords
.71
Understanding the Importance of Keywords
.72
Thinking Like Your Prey
.73
Starting Your Keyword Analysis
.74
Identifying the obvious keywords
.74
Looking at your Web site's access logs
.74
Examining competitors' keyword tags
.75
Brainstorming
with colleagues
.75
Looking closely at your list
.75
Using a Keyword Tool
.78
Using Wordtracker
.81
Creating a Wordtracker project
.83
Adding keywords to your initial project list
.85
Cleaning up the list
.88
Exporting the list
.89
Performing competitive analysis
.89
Finding keywords more ways
.92
Choosing Your Keywords
.92
Removing unhelpful terms
.92
Picking combinations
.94
Yet More Keyword Tools
.95
Chapter
6:
Creating Pages That Search Engines Love
.97
Preparing Your Site
.97
Finding a hosting company
.98
Picking a domain name
.98
Seeing Through a Search Engine's Eyes
.100
Understanding Keyword Concepts
.103
Picking one or two phrases per page
.103
Checking prominence
.104
Watching density
.104
Placing keywords throughout your site
.105
Creating Your Web Pages
.106
Naming files
.106
Creating directory structure
.106
Viewing TITLE tags
.107
Using the DESCRIPTION
meta
tag
.108
Tapping into the KEYWORDS
meta
tag
.110
Using other
meta
tags
.
Ill
Including image ALT text
.113
Adding body text
.113
Creating headers: CSS versus <H> tags
.114
Search Engine Optimization For Dummies,
3rd
Edition
Formatting text
.115
Creating links
.116
Using other company and product names
.117
Creating navigation structures that search engines can read
.118
Blocking searchbots
.119
Chapter
7:
Avoiding Things That Search Engines Hate
.121
Dealing with Frames
.121
The HTML Nitty-Gritty of Frames
.123
Providing search engines with the necessary information
.125
Providing a navigation path
.126
Opening pages in a frameset
.128
Handling iframes
.129
Fixing Invisible Navigation Systems
.129
Looking at the source code
.130
Turning off scripting and Java
.132
Fixing the problem
.133
Flush the Flash animation
.133
Avoiding Embedded Text in Images
.135
Reducing the Clutter in Your Web Pages
.135
Use external JavaScripts
.137
Use document.write to remove problem code
.137
Use external CSS files
.138
Move image maps to the bottom of the page
.139
Avoid the urge to copy and paste from MS Word
.139
Managing Dynamic Web Pages
.139
Determining whether your dynamic pages are
scaring off search engines
.
HI
Fixing your dynamic Web page problem
.142
Using Session IDs in URLs
.143
Examining Cookie-Based Navigation
.146
Fixing Bits and Pieces
.148
Forwarded pages
.148
Image maps
.148
Special characters
.149
Chapter
8:
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
.151
Tricking Search Engines
.152
Deciding whether to trick
.152
Figuring out the tricks
.153
Do these tricks work?
.154
Concrete Shoes, Cyanide, TNT
—
An Arsenal for Dirty Deeds
.154
Keyword stacking and stuffing
.155
Hiding (and shrinking) keywords
.156
Hiding links
.".
'.Z'.'.'.Z".
.158
Table
of
Contents
Duplicating
pages and sites
.158
Page
swapping and page jacking
.159
Doorway and
Information Pages
.159
Using Redirects and Cloaking
.160
Understanding redirects
.161
Examining cloaking.
162
Tricks
versus
Strategies
.163
Paying the Ultimate Penalty
.164
Chapter
9:
Bulking Up Your Site
—
Competing with Content
.167
Creating Content Three Ways
.168
Writing Your Own Stuff
.169
Summarizing online articles
.169
Reviewing Web sites
.170
Reviewing products
.170
Convincing Someone Else to Write It
.170
Using OPC
—
Other People's Content
.171
Understanding Copyright
—
It's Not Yours!
.172
Hunting for Other People's Content
.174
Keywords
.174
Product information
.175
Web sites and e-mail newsletters
.175
Government sources
.177
Content-syndication sites
.178
Traditional syndication services
.181
RSS syndication feeds
.182
Open content and copyleft
.184
Search results pages
.185
Pressreleases
.185
Q&A areas
.186
Message boards
.187
Blogs
.187
A Word about Duplicated Content
.188
Chapter
10:
Finding Traffic via Geo-Targeting
.191
Understanding Geo-Targeting's Importance
.192
Looking Through Local Search
.192
How Does Local Search Work?
.195
Search terms
.195
Partner sites
.195
IP numbers
.195
Reaching People Locally
.198
Registering for Local Search
.199
Finding More Local Systems
.201
Search Engine Optimization For Dummies,
3rd
Edition
Part
Uh
Adding \/our Site to the Indexes
and Directories
.203
Chapter
11:
Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines
.205
Determining Why Your Pages Aren't Being Indexed
.205
Linking Your Site for Inclusion
.206
Submitting Directly to the Major Systems
.207
Why submitting is safe
.207
Submitting for free
.207
Submitting an XML Sitemap
.208
Creating your sitemap
.210
Submitting your sitemaps
.211
Webmaster tools, too
.214
Using Paid Inclusion
.215
Excluding inclusion
.216
Using trusted feeds
.218
Submitting to Secondary Systems
.219
Using Registration Services and Software Programs
.220
Chapter
12:
Submitting to the Directories
.223
Pitting Search Directories Against Search Engines
.223
Why Are Directories So Significant?
.225
Submitting to the Search Directories
.226
Submitting to Yahoo! Directory
.226
Submitting to the Open Directory Project
.230
Understanding different link types
.231
Submitting to Second-Tier Directories
.231
Finding second-tier directories
.231
Avoiding payment
—
most of the time
.232
Chapter
13:
Buried Treasure
—
More Great Places to
Submit Your Site
.235
Keeping a Landscape Log
.236
Finding the Specialized Directories
.237
Finding directories other ways
.238
Local directories
.240
Bothering with directories
.240
Getting the link
.241
Working with the Yellow Pages
.242
Getting into the Yellow Pages
.245
Table
of Contents
Part
ÍV:
After
^oix'Ve
Submitted \lom Site
.
2Ц1
Chapter
14:
Using Link Popularity to Boost Your Position
.249
Why Search Engines Like Links
.249
Understanding Page Value and PageRank
.251
PageRank
—
One part of the equation
.252
The PageRank algorithm
.253
Huge sites equal greater PageRank
.255
Measuring PageRank
.256
Leaking PageRank
.259
Page Relevance
.260
Hubs and Neighborhoods
.261
Trust in TrustRank
.262
Inserting Keywords into Links
.263
The Googlebomblives
.264
Good Links and Bad
.265
Recognizing Links with No Value
.266
Identifying links that aren't links
.267
Identifying nofollow links
.268
Recalling a Few Basic Rules about Links
.269
Chapter
15:
Finding Sites to Link to Yours
.271
Controlling Your Links
.272
Generating Links, Step by Step
.273
Register with search directories
.275
Ask friends and family
.275
Ask employees
.275
Contact association sites
.276
Contact manufacturers' Web sites
.276
Contact companies you do business with
.276
Ask to be a featured client
.277
Submit to announcement sites and newsletters
.277
Send out press releases
.278
Create a little "linkbait"
.279
Find sites linking to your competition
.279
Ask other sites for links
.282
Make reciprocal link requests
.282
Use link-building software and services
.288
Respond to reciprocal link requests
.289
Search for keyword add
uri
.289
Contact e-mail newsletters
.291
Mention your site in discussion groups
.292
jCi/ltí
Search
Engine
Optimization For Dummies,
3rd
Edition
Respond to blogs
.292
Pursue offline PR
.292
Give away content
.293
Advertise
.293
Use a service or buy links
.293
Just wait
.296
Fuggetaboutit
.296
Chapter
16:
Even More Great Places to Get Links
.299
Got Content? Syndicate It!
.299
Four ways to syndicate
.301
Getting the most out of syndication
.302
Getting the word out
.303
Syndication services
.304
Syndicating utilities
.305
Social Networking
.305
Video sites
.
307
And More
.308
The nofollow Curse
.308
Who's Going to Do All This Work?!
.309
Chapter
17:
Using Shopping Directories and Retailers
.311
Finding the Shopping Directories
.311
Google Product Search
.313
Yahoo! Shopping
.314
Shopping.com
.316
PriceGrabber and PrecioMania
.318
BizRate
&
Shopzilla
.318
NexTag
.318
Pricewatch
.319
PriceSCAN
.320
More Shopping Services
.321
Third-Party Merchant Sites
.323
Creating Data Files
.324
The data you need
.325
Formatting guidelines
.326
Creating your spreadsheet
.327
Getting those product URLs
.327
Creating individual sheets
.329
Creating and uploading your data files
.332
Chapter
18:
Paying Per Click
.335
Defining PPC
.335
The two types of ads
.338
Pros and cons
.339
The three PPC tiers
.340
Where do these ads go?
.342
It may not work!
.342
Table
of Contents
Valuing Your Clicks
.344
The value of the action
.344
Your online conversion rate
.345
Figuring the click price
.345
Different clicks equals different values
.346
They Won't Take My Ad!
.346
Automating the Task
.348
Part V: The Part of Tens
.351
Chapter
19:
Ten-Plus Ways to Stay Updated
.353
Let Me Help Some More
.353
The Search Engines Themselves
.354
Google's Webmaster Pages
.354
Yahooľs
Search Help
.354
MSN/Live Search's
SEO
Tips
.355
Ask.com FAQ
.355
Search Engine Watch
.355
The Official Google Webmaster Help Group
.355
Google's Inside Scoop
.356
WebMaster World
.356
HighRankings.com
.356
Yahooľs
Search Engine Optimization Resources Category
.356
The Open Directory Project Search Categories
.357
Get the Search Engine Buzz
.357
Chapter
20:
Ten Myths and Mistakes
.359
Myth: It's All about
Meta
Tags and Submissions
.359
Myth: Web Designers and Developers Understand Search Engines
.360
Myth: Multiple Submissions Improve Your Search Position
.360
Mistake: You Don't Know Your Keywords
.361
Mistake: Too Many Pages with Database Parameters
and Session IDs
.361
Mistake: Building the Site and Then Bringing in the
SEO
Expert
.361
Myth:
$25
Can Get Your Site a
#1
Position
.362
Myth: Google Partners Get You
#1
Positions
.362
Mistake: You Don't Have Pages Optimized for Specific Keywords
.363
Mistake: Your Pages Are Empty
.363
Myth: Pay Per Click Is Where It's At
.363
Chapter
21:
Ten-Plus Useful Things to Know
.365
Creating Multi-Line Search Results
.365
What Is Enhanced Image Search?
.366
Checking Your Site Rank
.366
Checking for Broken Links
.368
Google Toolbar
.369
Search Engine Optimization For Dummies,
3rd
Edition
Alexa
Toolbar
.370
Install Firebug
.370
Seeing What Search Engines See
.371
Finding Your Keyword Density
.372
Analyzing Your Site's Traffic
.373
Checking for Duplication and Theft
.374
More Tools
.375
Using
301
Redirects
.375
What Is Universal Search?
.375
Don't Forget the Search Engines
.376
Appendix: Staying Out of Copyright Jail
.377
If It's Really Old, You Can Use It
.377
If the Guvmint Created It, You Can Use It
.379
If It's Donated, You Can Use It
.379
It's Only Fair
—
Fair Use Explained
.380
Index
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