I agree with Spectre. There is nothing better than quality content. Basic reason for this? Google is always adjusting their methods to make sure the search results are of a high quality. SEO freaks often go overboard which is a waste of time and sometimes they simply jump the gun like a race horse that was given too much steroids.

Make your site with good content that people are interested in. Then continue to expand the site adding pages every other day until you have noticed other sites linking to you. Now you can expect to see some movement in the search engines.

I once created a site giving away free images to use as navigation images with no SEO at all and only a few relevant keywords in meta tags. After spending 2 to 3 months building the site with my partner we started looking at log files and discovered we had been getting about 10,000 unique visitors per month and they were staying on our site for an average 17 minutes each. This was amazing considering at the time the owner of bingo.com had been bragging in an interview that they had a stickyness factor of 11 minutes or so. If you build it they will come and keep on coming! Even 6 years after the domain expired I can still find sites with bad links to the site that doesn't exist anymore. This is why domain hounds buy up domains only to fill the slot with some search engine portal, they know there will be residual traffic leftover from when there was quality content to be had. (vultures)

One of the sites that was in the top 10 tried all sorts of tricks to get back the spot that my site took. They tried taking apart pages with 20 images each and making instead one page for each graphic image. They looked at the size of our site and must have thought that size would be the only deciding factor in search engine placement. Fools, they never did back on top!

You might not think much of this story until I tell you the keywords were "free buttons".
I still think back to the day we saw our site on the first page of results on goolge, altavista, MSN, yahoo and even the number one spot for about 10 days on altavista. There were plenty of search results for free buttons even back then. We were number one for a while and top 10 on a regular basis out of hundreds of thousands of other web pages with very little SEO and absolutely no internet marketing efforts. Everyone else was trying to figure out how we did it, trying to get above us in the results by making links back and forth and all sorts of tricks when all they needed to do was create pages and pages of quality content.

The best way to get your site on top of google is CONTENT! Just like most of the people who replied say.
Affiliate program also works. But content is still the best. Post a good/credible article and let people link back to you. I believe google rate sites by the number of "reliable" links to your site.

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This post has been edited by linekill: Nov 7 2007, 01:27 PM

Correct me if i'm wrong, but the amount of veiws, the amount of pages are the key points of the page rank.

If you've created 300 pages, yourself. And not just php scriptted pages, would be a higher ranking then a site with 1 page. But you must have a link to each page on each page. The more related page links you have, the higher the ranking.

The amount of customers you have also promotes the sites page ranking, the more people veiw pages, the more page ranking it gets.

For optimizing my site 1st: I do swapped my post title with my site title. I think it is better for google search, because when someone try to search the words with google search, the result of google search will be appears with your post title (article) than your site title. Usually it appears site title and than post title (article) 2nd: I use meta tag description that explain more specific about my site 3rd:Try to interlink the article inside my site.

Words in the tags <H1> и <P> is good promostep...

hi im a little new to the web development seen and have some questions i want to share

1.) if people visits your site, will google/other search engines will see your website? your rank goes higher?
posting on forums/shoutbox and others can help promote my site because from what i have seen google sometimes add the last post on a site in there search. is this a viable option?

2.) my friend has a blog that has a minimum of 500 visits per day and ranks no.1 to 5 on that catergory. he told me to create a blog version of my site even if the content is different and link the two together. make it in blogger because he said that because its google owned and must have a automatic but not perfect listing of your site so it will soon be in google search. and link the two together is this true?