[Prestige1]

Just would like to pick someone’s brains, is it correct that sites such as Google will prioritise sites they think are more important, and judge this by how many links are on the site to other web sites? If so do you think it will be a good idea for us to promote each others sites on our own web sites? Obviously you wouldn't have links to someone who can compete in the same area, but theirs no problem for my site to be on a cleaner’s site in Wales?

I am sure BSF, Paul or Edd will know?

[Art]

If you go onto the scsf, Chris is clued up on websites


Arthur

[BSF]

Hi,

A couple of key search engines operate differently than the others, Google is probably the most important, while Yahoos primary results continue to come from its own directories, the secondary results come from Inktomi.

Googles search engine looks at how many sites link to ur site, as a proxy for how popular or interesting your website is and uses the results to rank ur site in its search engine results.

The type of site linking to you is important, a link from a popular site (ie one that has many other linking to it) counts for more than a link from a wallflower site that has few linkers of its own.

Getting a site listed with the major search engines can take a lot of time and effort, don’t ever submit your site to a search engine repeatedly, they are programmed to exclude sites which “spam” them, this can mean:

cloaking: when one page is served to search engine crawlers to get a good ranking but a different version of the page is served to search engine users. Sometimes involves changing of meta tags after positioning

Domain spamming: Identical sites found under different domain names to increase search engine traffic.

Tiny text: overused to hide keyword stuffing

Invisible text: used to hide keyword stuffing by making the stuffed keywords the same colour as the page (white on white, blue on blue etc)

Deceptive title and meta tags: Irrelevant keywords in the title and meta tags

Deceptive/misleading links: seting up pages/links for the sole purpose of deceiving search engines

Over submitting: using the AddURL form to submit hundreds of deceptive pages.

Sorry for such a long reply but it is very interesting how they work, honest

So to cut a long story short Phil, yes links do help…

Regards

BSF

[Prestige1]

Thanks for such a comprehensive answear. anyone want there site linking on my page and you can do the same for me? kind regards Phil

[BSF]

anytime if you need more advice let me know!

[Prestige1]

Whats to stop you putting a logo say coke a cola and put their web site link on your web site? and would think its wrong but would you get caught? regards Phil

[handyali]

Hi. thought I would post a link to my husbands forum about this subject. Must admit the subject bores me solid but thats life 

And I quote :

Google success is NOT dependant on how many links you have OUTGOING.  What is more important is INCOMING links.  There are many other things too.  I have started a SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) topic on the Anything IT forums here:

 

http://www.anything-it.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=54

 

[BSF]

Hi. thought I would post a link to my husbands forum about this subject. Must admit the subject bores me solid but thats life 

And I quote :

Google success is NOT dependant on how many links you have OUTGOING.  What is more important is INCOMING links.  There are many other things too.  I have started a SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) topic on the Anything IT forums here:

 

http://www.anything-it.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=54

 

And

Is their an echo on this forum

[BSF]

Whats to stop you putting a logo say coke a cola and put their web site link on your web site? and would think its wrong but would you get caught? regards Phil

It wouldnt do you much good, but it would if they entered a link to your site

You can put a link to them on your site, it wouldnt get you any higher in the rankings though, you couldnt get into trouble for it.

What is meant by the Deceptive/misleading links: is yoiu setting up loads of dummy sites and putting a link to your real website on them.

If a good site links to you, it will help

[handyali]

maybe there is an echo but only trying to help as i know he knows what hes talking about. a bit of free advice thats all  :