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Originally Posted by PosterBoy
You must be an SEO expert.  |
Hardly the expert and you know... I really try to avoid the term "SEO" because I believe the traditional SEO as we once knew it is dead for the most part.
There are several factors that are involved in making a page rank high and it first starts with the reputation of your site as a whole.
My site 2createwebsite.com is 5 1/2 years old, and for a website these days that's considered somewhat mature. I have a ton of backlinks from other sites and my site has a bunch of pages all centered around website building, promotion, etc.
When I create a page I use meta tags just like any other webmaster, but as far as using some formula where I sit and try to decide how many times to use a certain word in a page or making sure I mention the target phrase in the first paragraph, etc (I call it old school SEO). I really don't do that anymore. That's why it's important to build up your site's reputation in whatever niche you have. The search engines will begin to respect you and it will be easier to rank higher for certain keywords.
I was in a forum the other day and these guys were arguing over what google looks for in the keyword tag and how far in advance you should add a keyword link, etc. It was crazy. Back in 2000 all that stuff mattered, but now it's all about your site reputation as a whole.
Of course you still use the meta tags and mention your targeted keyword and variations of it throughout your page, but I really don't spend much time trying to rank high. I just write for the humans (instead of spiders) and it seems to work best.
