I don't clain to know very much about SEO but I do know that when I re-built my site trying to keep it sematically correct I went from page 16 to page 1 when looking for the domain name without the .net on google and hardly any one really comes to my site and I haven't ever submitted it to a search engine.
So to my limited knowledge semantics are great for SEO! Cheers Pete On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:20:40 +0000, Andy Budd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David R wrote: > > > There are claims that sites manually submitted to Google reduces your > > pagerank by a few points because it didn't find your site by being > > linked to it. > > This is actually a widely held belief that's been around for ages. I > honestly don't know if it's true or if it's just another SEO meme. > However it does sound credible. Basically the idea is that a site found > naturally by Google in the process of it's regular crawl are worth more > than one submitted by hand because they can easily be found on the web. > This is exacerbated by the number of auto submission tools which spam > the submission form, making submitted sites less valuable. > > > So can I hear it from the experts (ie: you guys) what the truth behind > > SEO really is. Are semantics worth anything? > > There is a difference between SPAM and legitimate marketing. If you're > selling "Grow it big" cream, you'll send out million of unsolicited > emails in the hope that a few people will bite. It doesn't matter if > your domain name gets blackholed or your server taken down after a > week, because you'll just set up another one. However if your a > legitimate company that wants to build it's brand and credibility in > the market place, you're unlikely to resort to spamming. > > The same is true of SEO. There will always be a market for spamdexing > but if you're a legitimate company wanting to be around for a while, > why take the risk? Rather than spamming, you want to build a long term > SEO strategy that will deliver search engine results over a sustained > period. To do this you want to create a site with great content that > people want to link to. > > Andy Budd > > http://www.message.uk.com/ > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- -- Peter Costello www.domestik.net ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
