php-general Digest 27 Sep 2010 07:24:19 -0000 Issue 6961
Topics (messages 308316 through 308322):
SEO Experts?
308316 by: David Mehler
308317 by: tedd
308319 by: Nathan Nobbe
308320 by: Al
308321 by: Shreyas Agasthya
308322 by: john.johnallsopp.co.uk
Re: Array question
308318 by: tedd
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Hello,
Do we have any SEO experts on this list? I'm not one, learning only,
reading a book and a few articles/tutorials from webmasters, and I'm
wanting to optimize an existing site to get the best search rank
possible. Some techniques, dos and don'ts would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave.
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At 8:09 AM -0400 9/26/10, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,
Do we have any SEO experts on this list? I'm not one, learning only,
reading a book and a few articles/tutorials from webmasters, and I'm
wanting to optimize an existing site to get the best search rank
possible. Some techniques, dos and don'ts would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave.
Dave:
That's far too broad a question. SEO can't be broken down into a few
do's and don'ts that can be listed on a post. That's like asking
"Anyone have any do's and don'ts about PHP?"
Please be reasonable with your questions.
Cheers,
tedd
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Dave,
the general advice I can give you is focus on fundamentals not on fads.
domain name, h1, h2, title tags and alt attributes are key tools to tell
bots what your pages are about. view your pages without javascript or css
to see how a bot will view them.
links from other sites are important as well, but don't forget internal
links. if you have links pointing from several pages on your site to one
important page, search engines can tell that.
unique content is also great as it distinguishes your site from competitors.
-nathan
On Sep 26, 2010 6:10 AM, "David Mehler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> Do we have any SEO experts on this list? I'm not one, learning only,
> reading a book and a few articles/tutorials from webmasters, and I'm
> wanting to optimize an existing site to get the best search rank
> possible. Some techniques, dos and don'ts would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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On 9/26/2010 8:09 AM, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,
Do we have any SEO experts on this list? I'm not one, learning only,
reading a book and a few articles/tutorials from webmasters, and I'm
wanting to optimize an existing site to get the best search rank
possible. Some techniques, dos and don'ts would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave.
Google "Webmasters" is a very good resource.
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Avoid 302's as mush as possible.
--Shreyas
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Al <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> On 9/26/2010 8:09 AM, David Mehler wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Do we have any SEO experts on this list? I'm not one, learning only,
>> reading a book and a few articles/tutorials from webmasters, and I'm
>> wanting to optimize an existing site to get the best search rank
>> possible. Some techniques, dos and don'ts would be appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>>
>
>
> Google "Webmasters" is a very good resource.
>
>
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Regards,
Shreyas Agasthya
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> On 9/26/2010 8:09 AM, David Mehler wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Do we have any SEO experts on this list? I'm not one, learning only,
>> reading a book and a few articles/tutorials from webmasters, and I'm
>> wanting to optimize an existing site to get the best search rank
>> possible. Some techniques, dos and don'ts would be appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
Sure, it's what I do.
Well first you need to work out which keyphrases to optimise for, and
that's not obvious. Search Google for "keyword tool external" to find a
Google tool that tells you something about the demand for a phrase and the
competition for it.
What you are trying to find are phrases that a) are very very relevant to
your client, b) have lots of demand traffic, and c) don't have too much
competition.
The other thing to check is whether anyone else is making money at your
selected phrases, so search for them in Google and see if people are
advertising.
Then group your phrases: so "wet dog" becomes a keyphrase group that
includes phrases like "getting rid of wet dog smell", "avoiding wet dog
shake" and so on.
You are building a site to satisfy the keyphrase groups you've identified,
so then one way or another you want a "wet dog" page that's optimised for
that phrase, which means you mention "wet dog" a few times especially in
the headline and page title and don't mention lots of other things.
Then you want some links from other people's pages, Twitter, Delicious,
YouTube and so on to your wet dog page, preferably text links that include
the phrase "wet dog".
Then you watch your Analytics data to check that people who arrive on your
site are satisfied and covert into sales (or signups or whatever you are
doing). If not, you run a Google Website Optimizer test to improve things
like your headline, photos and so on.
If you like, run through http://www.flowmarketing.co.uk and fill in the
form where you get stuck. It's obviously a work in progress :-) and I'll
complete the page that you end up at.
By all means email me the website and I can be more specific.
Good luck :-)
Cheers
J
http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk
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At 3:31 PM -0500 9/25/10, MikeB wrote:
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My question, in the loop, why does tha author use:
$results[] = mysql_fetch_array($result);
instead of (as I would expect):
$results[$j] = mysql_fetch_array($result);?
What PHP magic is at work here?
Mike:
That's just a shorthand way to populate an array in PHP.
One of the reasons for this feature is that somewhere in your code
you may not know what the next index should be. So, if you use --
$results[] = $next_item;
-- then the $next_item will be "automagically" added to the next
available index in the array. So you may be right in calling it "PHP
magic" because I have not seen this in other languages.
Understand?
Cheers,
tedd
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