Optimizing a Website (Help -- Vanity)

Greg F | 4/9/08 | Greg F

[Greg F]

And I’m not sure how I got that giant bold up there in the post . . . not intentional.

[jdm]

I had a financial setback and to help me through a buddy is going to pay me $1,000 a month to keep a website optimized.

He doesn't happen to have a second web site he needs optimized, does he? :O)

[CharlesWayneCT]

Because you probably were trying to say “use the BOLD marker for key content, and you actually put the bold marker there, and it made the next paragraph bold.

And then it stopped because the bold here stops at a line break, I believe to keep it from spreading to other posts.

Which would be an example of coding html without including the end html character.

[jdm]

I don't know what you mean. It looks fine on my screen.Just teasing. :O)

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Search-engine hit-optimization is a brutal, cut-throat world.

You're going to be competing with guys who have all the scruples of the Russian Mafia or the Chinese Red Army.

NOT for the faint of heart.

If his entire business model depends on search-engine hit-optimization, then be prepared to wake up with fleas after having slept with dogs.

[Greg F]

It’s in a competitive area so his experience is that it takes about 20 hours work a month to keep it high in the search engine rankings.

[Greg F]

LOL — you could be right . . .

[jdm]

You used the < h1 > tag in your code; that’s why that happened.

[DieHard the Hunter]

www.webexpress.co.nz — ask for “Bruiser” and tell him “Chieftain” sent you. He’d probably optimize it for you for $500 per month if you asked him nicely, leaving you $500 to the good. Just an idea...

*DieHard*

[jdm]

$50 an hour ain’t bad work.

[Greg F]

Not bold ; ) but another marker

[jdm]

That’s not any good. Greg F wants the whole $1,000, I’m sure!

[bcsco]

And I’m not sure how I got that giant bold up there in the post . . . not intentional.

Here's the culprit: "increase the links to the site, use h1 marker for the key content, make the site active and changing, make sure the html has the closing signals so the spiders don't get confused. /h1"

I had to take the brackets out surrounding the 'h1' code, otherwise the above would also be larger. Somehow this font code got placed where it did.

[Greg F]

No it’s not. I’ll have to put in more time at first though . . .

[Greg F]

Yah, JDM is right, particularly since I may have the other opportunity through my friend’s communications firm.

[Greg F]

Short term have to do it myself to learn.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> That’s not any good. Greg F wants the whole $1,000, I’m sure!

Me, I’m just a lazy bugger, and time is at a premium. Why work hard for $1000 when you can get another guy to work hard for $500 and pocket $500 for your trouble by doing stuffence?

Hey, it makes perfect sense to me...

[BubbaBasher]

You are already in way over your head. Your friend will go broke before you figure it out. Tell him you appreciate the offer but you're not qualified. Really. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass but if you can't figure out the HTML here at FR you don't have a chance. Save your friendship and back out.

Search Engine Optimization is a black art for only the best of the best. The secret strategies these people have developed are among the most closely guarded secrets around. Search engines like Google and Yahoo have teams of programmers whos job is to get around the most popular ways people use to boost their rankings. They are constantly changing the method they use to rank pages so by the time you learn something it's no longer valid.

[jdm]

1. Go to the downtown library
2. Get administrative permissions
3. Password protect the machines
4. Install Firefox on all their computers
5. Install the "Reload every" add-on
6. Set all PCs to reload the website every second
7. Go back the next day and repeat

/sarc