I remember back in the "olden days" of search engine optimization, it was mostly about the keywords in your META tags. Now, that clearly is not enough. I’m curious what I can do to optimizes search engine placement without paying thousands of dollars for someone else to do it for me. What are those people doing to get top placement?

While on some web page, an article popped up from the Los Angeles Times about a woman making 00.00 a month placing ads on the internet. The comments were all scams.

I want to post it again here since yahooanswers gets such high search engine placement. The system is a scam. Here is what is taking place now:

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The company I work for just changed websites and we have taken a bit of a hit in search engine placement because of it. Until we get the kinks worked out as far as SEO, I was thinking of using a Pay Per Click ad service such as Google AdWords. Does anyone have any experience with this? Also, I noticed that Google AdWords places your companies linkback on the side of the google search (the right margin). How do you get it to be placed at the top of the search? Thanks.

Qassia is a new site claiming to help pagerage and search engine results. I was curious if it will have any real effect on my sites search engine placement.

http://boycottchapter27.qassia.com/
Kids…I don’t own this site or need referrals….I just asking

I need to market discounted large format original paintings and don’t want to fight it out with Art.com and others for search engine placement. I’m looking at puting up a website and advertising it on other sites like Craigslist.com. If you know of any other sites like craigslist or have any other ideas on how to market this product I would appreciate any advice you care to share.

Is the domain name vitally important for placing for keywords?

The site I need a domain name for is an affiliate site, so high search engine placement is more important to me than branding. Is it vital that I structure the domain name around my keywords? Is the domain name of minor consequence compared to other factors like title and content? Or does it not matter at all?

Any help is appreciated.

Hi,
I have an e-commerce site selling surfing gear for the past year. I have done some advertising but do not really have search engine placement. My partner wants to advertise, I think its more important to spend our funds on search engine optimization. He also think we can learn to do it ourselves but I disagree. SEO looks like a whole job in itself. Does anyone with experience have any good ideas?

Hi,

I currently run and own a sports related website that consists of sports articles, sports directory and a sports forum. I rank well with MSN, Yahoo and for a few keywords with Google. In fact, my site ranks well with yahoo when searching for sports articles; my site in the top 11.

I’d like to keep my current sports site and design the site more for sports articles and directory, since both are doing well.

That being said, I’d like to open up my own sports cards trading shop. I would sell products in an auction format. Visitors would signup for a weekly newsletter that would inform them of new auctions that have been added.

Should I design this sports auction store as another domain name? It would not hurt my search engine placement, penalize or ban me if I run two sports related websites and link them together?

Again, one of the sports sites I own is just a directory, forums and articles. The other would be my very own sports store in the format of auction style.

There is all this talk that for your site to rank well with google, other websites need to link to yours. How come I see tons of websites
with out a links page that are ranking well? What do they do to get others to link to their website? I would figure most websites would
ONLY link to yours if you link to theirs.

I see tons of webmaster forums online and they all have basically the same content. Yet they have tons of other sites linking to theirs with out them having a links page to exchange links.

Are there other ways to receive good search engine placement?

A few years ago I worked with my father in search engine placement. There was a free online tool that helped us out a lot.
You would basicly type the keyword and hit submit and it would tell you how many times this particular keyword was searched for in the top 10 most popular search engines. Now I have been looking for a couple days and all I seem to find are payed downloads. Not really what I am looking for. This site was free. I just dont remember the name of it anymore. It has been a long time. If you know of such a program that is free and online without downloading please let me know…. Thanks for your help.