Hello everyone,

I'm very to new to this, but I'm reading a lot on this website that it's important for your content to get recognized by the search engines. Could someone explain that more or give me a good website to go to?

Thanks so much!

As I've learned from Lisa and others on here, go to www.selfpromotion.com It explains everything you need to know about do-it-yourself search engine optimization.

I'll do my best to explain the basics and please some of you more experienced folks chime in if I've missed something.

Let's say you want to build a site that gets found for southern cooking.

Step 1 - buy a domain name with the keywords you want to target, for example southern-cooking-recipes.com

Step 2 - Start building your content. You are going to want to create as many pages possible on southern cooking. Add recipes, maybe some background information (history) on southern cooking. You could even setup a section where people can submit their own recipes to help your site grow.

Step 3 - start submitting to the major search engines as described on www.selfpromotion.com Also follow the guidelines for your page structure to make sure each page is optimized. For example you have to add meta tags at the top of every page. This is HTML code that tells the engines what each page is about.

Now it's up to you to keep building content and continually promoting your site. Write articles for article directory sites. Create a blog and link your blog to your site. Partner with other webmasters with sites on cooking to help draw in inbound links.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell. I have learned a lot from Lisa's site and can write about it but I haven't put my plan into action yet. Hopefully I'll have the success story to go with my knowledge soon.

Anyone have anything else to add?

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Great overview, danap. I think the bottom line is search engines now care more about what other people think of your site than they do your on-page criteria. And it starts with great content.

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I was lucky with regards to search engines. I currently have a Web site that is indexed by Google. I simply included a link to my new blog on that site and a few days later my blog was starting to get listed in Google.

I also wonder if the fact that I use Blogger helps since Google owns Blogger. Hmm....

Anyway, remember that content is the key to getting listed-lots and lots of unique content.

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Pretty good TechieGuy. So you actually are getting decent traffic too? I know a lot of people get listed right away but the traffic is usually minimal at first or for less competitive keywords.

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Sadly I'm not yet getting decent traffic. My blog doesn't have much content, as of yet. I'm trying to aim for 3 posts a week. I'm hoping as I get more content then I'll get more traffic.

I do use Google Analytics to monitor my traffic. It's interesting to see that most people use similar keywords to find my site on Google.

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As the old age saying goes, content is king.
With blogging you will have to try to get fresh content daily.

Yes, a link to your main site from a blogger account can help you get listed in Google.

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There are many ways to get your site indexed in search engines. These are
1) Using the search engines suggestion form
2) By posting a link to your site at another website that is already indexed
3) Through blog comments
4) Through forum signatures
5) By buying a link at a web directory

However, you should ensure that any of these are done only after your have created pages targeting all of your keywords. Search engine index is updated only once a month or so. It is a bad idea to stay in the index for 1 month with only one page with "welcome to our new site"

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The problem nowadays is that webmasters write for the searc hengines and not for the people that viosit the site.

Simply write quality unique search engine friendly (not spamming) content and the result will follow itself.

Write for your visitors.

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