Hi. An agency just finished my website. Now I would like to get listed?

Question

in search engines. I don't have the funds to pay the agency to also do that, can I do it myself even if I don't have any programming knowledge?

Thanks so much...!

Answer 1

Yeah you can but its cheaper and easiers to get other media outlets to talk about your blog or website but doing it yourself is like doing surgey on yourself you would rather let the doctor do it

Answer 2

7 Steps to an Effective SEO Strategy

Here are 7 steps to an effective SEO strategy. They are based around what some of the Google® ranking factors are and how each step will impact them.

1. Keyword research - The keywords you use for your website will determine so many ranking factors such as:

    * Title tags

    * Meta tags

    * Keyword usage in the body

    * Header tags

    * Domain name (if applicable)

    * Type of websites you link to

These are just a few, there are more, but keyword research is the first step towards successful SEO strategy.

2. Relevant content development - try creating 20-30 pages of original, relevant, content to what your keywords are. Search engines rank the websites based on the keywords and the websites that have relevant content to those keywords. Your content can easily make you or break you in the search engines so make sure its original, and once again, relevant to your keywords.

3. Design your website to be "linkable" - Internal linking of your website, which is the number and importance of internal links pointing to a page, and external links from other websites pointing to your website are important to SEO. In some cases as important to your keywords. This means making your website more navigable and user friendly by linking your internal pages on your website and keeping your site design simple will make it more appealing for quality external websites to link to it. The structure of your internal linking and quality of external links play a huge role in effective SEO strategy.

4. Sitemaps - An often overlooked aspect of effective SEO strategy which goes in line with internal site linking. Its quite a simple concept, if you have a sitemap then the spiders can access the content on all pages of the website. Take it one step further and create a Google® Sitemap and submit it to them. This will tell the spiders exactly how your website is laid out, all the pages and it will let them know how often they are updated. For more information on creating Google Sitmaps go to http://www.sitemaps.org

5. Submit and forget (sometimes) - Submit your websites to DMOZ and other relevant directories and then forget about it. Why? DMOZ can take up to 6 months or more to make a directory listing. Its ok to check back after a while when submitting because its not an instant occurrence. This doesn't mean its not important, a listing in DMOZ has been known to boost search engine ranking exponentially. Submit your website to article directories by writing a short informative article about one of the topic of discussions on your website. It can give you great linkbacks from good external link websites, which will boost your search engine ranking. If you don't think anything about your business is interesting enough to be worth a 400 word description then what makes you think anyone else will (think its interesting).

6. Study your Stats and make adjustments - Your website should have statistics actively tracking from day one. Make sure they are comprehensive enough to track what keywords are popular and what people are typing in the search engines to find your website. Also they need to track what websites are referring to yours and how you were able to be linked by those websites. Then make adjustments, build more content around the more popular keywords, and the more popular referring websites. This will make your content more relevant to the search engines.

7. Keep your content fresh - Remember the search engines rank websites primarily according to content, not domain name, or how much you spend in pay per click ads, or even the number of hits you have. All of those listed above play a small role in your ranking, but content is king. A simple way to keep content fresh is to have a blog on your website. This will not only keep your visitors interested in your websites content but the search engines will see that its newer, and unique and improve your rankings because of your content.

Answer 3

google adsene

Answer 4

You are going to need to change the title tag and body copy to include specific keywords you want to rank on. Hopefully you have access to the website they created for you.

Start a blog on Blogger.com and link it to your website. This will allow the website to get crawled more often.

Also get as many links as you can to your website with the keywords that you want to rank on.