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SEO means Search Engine Optimization. So an optimized page would normally have good ranking in search engines. Since I know quite a bunch about SEO, I'll make a "SEO guide".

 

Which search engines?

Firstly, you should know what search engines that are actually important.

Around 50-60% of all searches are made in Google. So Google is the major search engine world wide, and this is the most important engine.

Yahoo and MSN Search engines are also large, and have around 30-40% of all searches world wide. Yahoo is a bit more used than MSN.

The rest 5-10% are other search engines. So, optimizing your site for Ask Jeeves, AllTheWeb etc. would be a waste of time.

 

Submitting your site

If you're not already indexed, you should submit your site. There are many submissions services. This search gives you a bunch of submission services. But you should also submit the sites directly to the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) manually.

 

Note: A submission service submitting your site to 10,000 engines is not better than a service submitting your site to the 20 major search engines. 9,980 engines would just be small engines which would give you 0,5-1% more traffic.

 

Google sitemaps

The Google Sitemaps is a service by Google where you can submit an XML sitemap. This will make it easier for Google to crawl your site, thus increasing the chance for getting indexed and getting good ranking.

If you don't know any XML or need a generator, you can try this script which will crawl your site and generates a sitemap.

 

Incoming links

This is an important part. If you don't have any links from other sites to your site, you won't get a good rank, as the search engines will see your site as an unimportant one. Link farms are usually not a good place to advertise your site in, and many of them are actually banned from some engines.

 

You should also be sure to submit your site to directories such as DMOZ.

 

Content

Unlike what many people believe, the content is more important than the incoming links.

 

If the keyword is "anime" and you expect people to visit your site by using that keyword, you should not just write a lot of stuff about japanese drawings without mensioning the word "anime". The more often the word appears, the better. But remember to have real content, and not just writing "Anime is cool, Anime anime anime".

 

The site should also be updated pretty often. Old sites that are not updated will usually lose their good rankings.

 

Also, good grammar is actually important. A site with lots of grammar errors will not get good ranking.

 

You may also try to look at sites that are similar to the one you want to promote, and see what they have and you don't.

 

Coding

This is also an important part. Firstly, you should have all styles in an external CSS document. Also, the site should not have many HTML/XHTML errors. These can be found using the W3 HTML Validator. (A CSS validator may be a good idea too.) Your site should validate as XHTML 1.0 strict or HTML 4.01 strict.

 

All images should have descriptive alt= tags:

<img src="animegirl.jpg" alt="An anime girl">

Note that the alt tags are required for valid HTML/XHTML documents anyway.

 

You should NOT use images as your content, and the content should not be in flash or java. If you do this, the search engines will not see the actual content, and it won't get good ranking.

 

The <title> tag is also very important. If you have a site about anime, you should have the word anime in your title. But the title tag should not be too long, since each word will then be less "valuable".

 

The keyword and description tags should be as short as possible, but you should include a good description about your site. If you have an anime site, you should not have lots of keywords such as "computers, software, new york, google, cool, search" etc.

<meta name="keywords" content="first keyword, second keyword, third, fourth, etc"><meta name="description" content="A brief description of your site">

NOTE: If you are using html, the end tag should be /> and not just >.

 

The header tags are also important. <h1> is the most important tag, and should be used in the headers. <h2> is less important, but still more important than normal text. Since headers often are what you want you want people to search about, you should use <h1> and <h2> tags on the headers (other <h> tags works, but the higher the number is, the less important will it be).

 

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Well, I'm pretty sure I forgot something, but that's all folks.

robots.txt will not do anything to the subdomains. From what I've heard, some bots sees the subdomains as external sites. But after what I've experienced, that's partially wrong. My site is not indexed, and none of the subdomains are. Seems like the domain is banned for some reasons, and that the subdomains are banned too.But bots follows external links too, so if you have links to the subdomains from your main page, I'm sure the subdomains will be crawled too.

It is not because of the sandbox. Firstly, if my site would have been in the sandbox, it would be indexed, but without a good ranking. But it's not indexed AT ALL. Secondly, my site has been up for quite a while now, so it should be out of the sandbox.

You can check this topic, where I have explained what I have done to get ranked:
http://forums.xisto.com/topic/28321-my-new-site-not-on-google/

Well, this is what I have done, so people won't suggest it tons of times again :- The site does not have any programming error and is in valid HTML / CSS- I have submitted my site manually to the major search engine- I have used submission services such as http://www.addme.com/- I have many (over 30-40) incoming links, and it is in my signature on most forums I use.- The site is updated pretty often- The keywords, such as "RuneScape" and "skill" appears often. From my point of view, it's both good written for search engines and visitors- Very good content (as mentioned above)- Submitted the site to Google Sitemaps- I have a standard HTML sitemap in addition to the XML one- I'm even using Google Adsense, and they don't even index me! And, lastly, probably one of the most important things: The site has been online for quite a while now.

Thanks! It works now

cmatcmextra, I don't have if ($_REQUEST["id"] == "1") in view.php. This is what I have:

$id = $_REQUEST['id'];

Well, I am making a full CMS system for my site, and want to make the index.php file to include the view.php?id=1 file. I tried with this code, but it didn't work:

<?php include 'view.php?id=1' ?>

This is the error I get:

Warning: main(view.php?id=1) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\server\xampp\htdocs\test\index.php on line 1Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'view.php?id=1' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\server\xampp\php\pear\') in C:\server\xampp\htdocs\test\index.php on line 1

So what can I do?

Well, it really depends on what you want to do. But http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/error.htm?aspxerrorpath=/ should be a great place to start, that's where I learned it

AWESOME TUTORIAL, I was just looking for this!!! Thanks alot, I hope it will work Thanks once again (But why all those \\\ everywhere?)

You should make sure google has accepted to add your site. And make sure you have make a CSS sheet for google to use to look for you site. PM me if you want to know how to make one or if you want me to create one free.. I am willing to help if you really needed it. So remember to PM me if you still cant get your site on google. 

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I already have a stylesheet for the site, and it is made in valid HTML 4.01 (I'm planning to make it valid XHTML strict, but that will take a while...

 

The best possible way of getting your site ranked in Google is to mind your sites' content. My website got in Google only in 15 days. The best possible way i would suggest is dont build your site for google build it for your customers. The more precise you are about your content the more quiker you will get into google.

Lastly dont waste your time in exchanging link with FFAs try and make quality link partners. this will certailny help

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The site content is good, actually very good. Keywords like "runescape" and "skills" can be found everywhere, especially on the pages that are actually about "skills". Also, the visitors loves the content of the site, so I don't think the content is bad at all - not for the visitors, nor for the search engines.

 

hmm...

 

have you used the site submission of google. Try searching add url or site submission in google.

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Yes, I've submitted tons of times since I bought the domain name, but nothing happens...

 

I think there is some special optimization to do to help your site get listed.

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After many months of researching on search engine optimization, I am way more experienced than many who offers such services. Many of them are actually scam, no-one can guarantee good ranking on a search engine.

 

I guess you need to wait a bit longer to see your site shown on google results. And believe me, they'll always give a preference place in the order of results to their sponsours (don't get upset, that's perfectly normal) unless your site is kinda 'unique'.

 

Besides that, I'd suggest you visit this site: http://www.addme.com/ I guess they have pretty nice tools and you can find more free search engines submission in google

 

Cheers!!!

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Well, don't tell me that I haven't waited. The site was started in SEPTEMBER, now it's january. So, I have waited in 4 months...

 

And yes, I have used all kinds of submission services, but it still doesn't help.

 

Your website looks great. I?m sure you?ll get good results in google with a bit more time and the advices of people here in this forum. Try to see things other way and instead worrying for not being up in google, you have to be happy to be so popular on msn. If your website last, you will get more visitors, more links and higher positions.

 

Good luck! 

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Yes, the site is getting more and more popular, and I have many, many incoming links. But since I have spent months on finding more about search engine optimization, I know pretty much everything I need to know about it

 

  It still doesn't appaer to be indexed. I hope you have been spending the last few months getting it optomised so when it gets seen, it will get the PR you are after.

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It is being crawled daily, actually hourly by Googlebot. So it is seen

There is no official WHOIS site, as far as I know. Also, I don't know if you can make a PHP script showing WHOIS information...

Keep in mind that this is MS proprietry (read non-standard) code and doesn't work in other browsers.

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Yes, it does work in Opera too

 

By the way, those scripts are only CSS and Javascript, not HTML or PHP

 

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Thanks alot By the way, I also have a background color. But thanks for the code, especially to you Tyssen (the CSS guru )

I actually like how the render is made. Normally, people tries to blend it, but you have just cutted it. I like it, it's pretty good Cool render too, by the way

Not bad, although you have made better I think the background and render is kind of "white-ish", with too much white in it. That's the only bad side with it.

lol, kelvinismyname, you're right, Micro$oft normally lies about the release dates. In addition, they are planning much for the new releases, but only a few of their ideas are actually done in their releases...

I thought Opera Mini already existed? They obviously have made it better, but Opera has been for phone browsers for ages now.

I never turn it off manually, I always go to start > turn off, except if the computer stops responding, and I have to turn it off manually.I've also heard that it might hurt the computer / components, but I really don't know anything...

A world without computers is currently unbelievable, really. I just can't think how it would be! I am spending lots of time, and I absolutely really don't know what I would do without... Umm, the world would be boring without computers.

Wow, I actually didn't know that. Does it work in all browsers supporting CSS?Anyway, thanks alot, I'm sure that will help me!!

Hi, I think you're actually wrong. The script doesn't tell how fast the page loads for each visitor, but how fast the page is generated. "Page loaded in 0.371 seconds" would be very fast, and I would love that the internet was that fast. But I think it's the time the page is generated in. Correct me if i'm wrong Anyway, thanks for the code, it might be useful, and I may use it

Isn't there any manual or something like that?

I'm never using Windows Media player anyway. I use to listen at an internet radio, but Windows Media Player is so slow, so I use WinAmp. It is also my default sound and video program.And if I listen to songs on my computer, I am just using the library in my p2p-program...But I guess I could give Windows Media Player 11 a try when it's released

Very good tips I have never had problems with spywares, viruses or adwares, and am always keeping my security softwares up-to-date and scanning very often, but I am not using Internet Explorer anyway, and rarely, I use other sites than the ones I use to So I guess they don't really help me much, but I am sure there are others out there that will find it useful!

Well, the title says what I need. Basically, I want a background image that can be used in the body or inside a div (or table), which is centered.