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Originally Posted by Richard M
Don't use any company which claims to be able to submit your site to thousands of search engines and get you a top 10 ranking because:
a) There aren't thousands of search engines, only 3 or 4 of them matter anyway
b) To get you a higher ranking they will put your link on "link farm" pages, it works in the short term but you will most likely find your site banned from Google within two months. |
Yeah, i had heard some of the practices weren't that good.
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Originally Posted by Richard M
The best way to get a good ranking is by using standards complaint HTML markup and by getting descriptive links back to your site from others.
For example, a link like this:
link is not as good as:
cable tv information site |
All well and good, but unless you get established, how are people to know you are there? - unless you start spamming peoples sites, which obviously isn't a great idea, how are you supposed to get people to link to you?