Comments on: Learn SEO: Maximize Your Time with Google's Spiders

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:28:35 +0000

“…these are just some of the things you can learn, stay up to date with good SEO information not the nonsense you get from forums and a few out of touch blogs…”

Care to share where you keep up to date with such information short of these blogs?

By: Mark @ Travelrobe

Mark @ Travelrobe — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:59:24 +0000

Point taken Stephanie: Thanks

By: Stephanie Woods

Stephanie Woods — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:42:32 +0000

Herman – My apologies for the latent response. You are building up your external links already and that is a great way to get your pages indexed more quickly. In terms of Google finding the links that are linking back to you, there is not much you can do. The reason being is that the spiders need to find the link back to you on other people’s sites; not your own site. Hence you have no control over how other people’s sites (and the links back to you) are spidered.

Mark – You are absolutely correct. There are various paths to take when marketing your site. As I mentioned, the items are only small steps towards a bigger goal. These alone won’t make your site rank #1 in a competitive industry, but they can certainly help. As the title of the post implies, this article is about what you can do with your site to help expedite the spidering process. It’s not about how to market your site. That’s something entirely different. For the sake of brevity, it’s not possible to cover every angle of online marketing in one post without confusing the hell out of people just starting out.

When you end up ranking for terms that you’re not even going for, you’re getting into the theory of the longtail. Some people argue that optimizing your site for longtail phrases that only a few people search for can collectively bring you lots of traffic. There are many facets to SEO and online marketing, however, my intention for the article was to to provide information to people on a pretty basic level – without causing too much confusion!

By: Mark @ Travelrobe

Mark @ Travelrobe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:04:48 +0000

Stephanie Woods: Yes you’re right on keywords in title absolutely, but let me just share this with you, no key phrase is optimized equally, what I mean by that is if you take for argument sake “search engine optimization” and “website internet marketing” and compare the top ten for each you will find that the methods that got them there are completely different, search engine optimization could be heavily weighted on optimization compared to website internet marketing where the method could be backlinks driven, because of the theme, “marketing” although they both need every element to rank well by nature you have to understand what makes your phrase rank well. Here is another example, have you had your site rank for keywords you were not targeting? and your target keywords are nowhere to be found? well that is because your not using the right method to target the keyword. Maybe the top ten does not have their keyword in H1, Alt Tags, Title, whatever the reason, so never assume that just because we know what a good optimization needs that every key phrase needs it. It’s all about tweaking to find the right balance…..

By: Herman

Herman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:13:12 +0000

Came across your post when Googling “how to get google to spider your links” I’ve built 100s of links to a friend’s site over several weeks but Google hasn’t respidered it. How do I speed up respidering when I’ve followed the checklist?

By: Neuro SEO

Neuro SEO — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:06:32 +0000

Ensure your pages have a fast download time – that’s a nice point every website should have…

Nice article.

By: Stephanie Woods

Stephanie Woods — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:17:33 +0000

KJ – I haven’t had time to delve too deeply into Bing as of late. The word on the street though is it’s something we need to start paying more attention to. That’s an interesting comment about keyword spamming I will look further into. Not that I have any intentions of KW spamming!

Nick – SEO can be done by anybody if they learn how to do it. Same goes with building a website. All it takes is time. As for writing, engines are looking for good content, not keywords. Getting keywords into your content should more or less occur naturally since your onpage optimization should be a direct reflection on what the page is actually about!

Mark – You are correct in saying that it doesn’t matter how many keywords are in the title tag (although it certainly does help to have your targeted keywords in the page title). If you look at sites that are doing well in the search engines, you will see that they have the nominal amount of onpage optimization done mentioned here. This article makes no mention of keyword density, just suggests it doesn’t hurt to include the keywords a copy times in the body copy (which shouldn’t be hard if you’re targeting the right keywords in the first place).

NetBiz – Although you sound like a bot, thanks for the compliment. Glad to provide information that you can use. Feel free to drop me a line if there is anything else you’d like to see covered.

By: YourNetBiz System

YourNetBiz System — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:58:14 +0000

To tell you the truth, there are not too many articles out there that cover such seemingly technical stuff in such an easy to read format. I actually learned something!

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By: Mark @ Travelrobe

Mark @ Travelrobe — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:41:06 +0000

Guys, every time I read these comments they get me furious with those people who claim to know it all but knows nothing at all, things like how many keywords to put in the title, description, keyword tag, alt tag, and what density you should have, this is all bogus stuff. Please let me explain, if you’ve done any type of SEO then you probably know the basics, if you do then that’s all you need, the rest is all tweaks, adjustments and monitoring the site to see what works and what does not. Patience is said to be a virtue and it’s completely true in SEO. It’s also good to look at those sites that rank high for very competitive keywords, like Internet marketing, search engine optimization, and many others, look at there source code and see some of the techniques they have employed like instead of titles in links, alt tags and descriptions on images, these are just some of the things you can learn, stay up to date with good SEO information not the nonsense you get from forums and a few out of touch blogs, trust me I was there before I became enlightened, and my advice to anyone is that if the initial thought was negative then it is. Spamming, Link Farms stay away from Black Hat SEO.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:24:14 +0000

I think sometimes people over think SEO to be something that is super technical that requires a programmer. Yes SEO in copy writing will require the writer to be more literal than cute. There is plenty of room for the two to mesh together.