Derleek Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 I know absolutely nothing about this stuff. can some one throw some solid resources my way. I'll be personally looking into this in the near future, i was just wondering if anyone had any reliable resources i don't have to dig up! heh... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuhtzu Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Wikipedia maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-608632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 This can be the "SEO resources" topic then. I'll sticky it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-608802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
axiom82 Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 I thought this would be an interesting read on how to build links to your website. http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-609362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sKunKbad Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 I think one of the best SEO "tricks" is to have clean XHTML content. If you look at a website that separates it's content from its style, the content is report-like in nature. For instance, if you take a look at www.csszengarden.com, and any of the different styles that have been applied to its content, and then turn off the style, the result is a pure report-like web page. In Firefox you can use view->style->no style to turn off the style of a page, but to really see what googlebot or the other bots are seeing, you need to turn off javascript, images, and Flash also. I know that Adobe and Google have been working on ways that Google can index Flash content, but being able to provide alternate content has always been an option. The same goes for javascript and images. Noscript tags and alt attributes have long been the friend of the SEO conscious web developer. A great book that I recommend to anyone learning SEO is called "Web Standards Design Guide" by Kevin Ruse. While the book isn't specifically about SEO, understanding the book and applying it to your websites will greatly increase the SEO scores/rankings, probably more so than many techniques you will learn elsewhere. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-612168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atticus Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Great article: http://pdxtc.com/seo101/scotts-articles/organic-search/top-ten-seo-factors.html Video Reviews of Websites (you could submit your for free as well) http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/seo-101/5-minute-seo-review-sociatropincom/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-616481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 @sKunKbad if you use the progressive enhancement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Enhancement) strategy when building websites your website will not only rank better (because of the content first) the website is also much more accessible i think that was what you were referring to Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-618135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sKunKbad Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 @ignace Progressive Enhancement is actually a term that I had never seen. I read a bit of the wiki, and while progressive enhancement seems geared towards browsers, SEO is obviously geared towards search engine bots. The strategy within progressive enhancement is very similar to the type of SEO that I have learned over time, if you consider that the search engine bot is the most basic of "browsers". In that regard, if more people were focused on writing good content, and spent less time making things sparkle, glitter, and shine, they would generally have a webpage that could be viewed in any browser, and it would naturally be well suited for a search engine bot to index. Bot's obviously look at image alt tags and look for alternate content within noscript tags, etc., but the actual text on the page has the highest value. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-618381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rakxzo Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Hello everyone. Been a lurker for some time and I'm working with php sites now so I thought I come back and start checking out some info I needed. Coincidentally I found this new forum... I mean coincidentally because the sites that I'm working on are all php based and I need to work the SEO for them... great idea to put this forum here! Going back to the original post... If anyone else is interested, I have been keeping tabs on a bunch of stuff I follow for SEO. I use delicious and different tags and stuff so if anyone is interested, just use the RSS for any of these to see what I find... - delicious - find me under "muychingon" - look for tags - seo, directory Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-620136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RalphOrange Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 Thanks, will do... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-624197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derleek Posted August 31, 2008 Author Share Posted August 31, 2008 found a pretty good walk through that's definitely worth reading. tizag SEO Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-630559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Very good read, it cleared up a lot of things that I was confused about. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-630793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 SEO is important, but don't tell me that myspace or facebook have done SEO - instead they became so popular that google assigned them an authoritative page rank. - Some food for thought. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-631535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derleek Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 @FilmGod Yeah... but they had to start somewhere, its not like myspace was born with as many users as it has... or was it? anywho, they dont have to bother with it anymore at this point but they very likely had to at the start-up phases Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-631541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyMorgan Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 @FilmGod Yeah... but they had to start somewhere, its not like myspace was born with as many users as it has... or was it? Actually, myspace was jumpstarted by the company spamming 3 million people encouraging them to join up, so in a way they were born with a large amount of users. I agree with FilmGod, some companies don't care about SEO because they've reached their tipping point some other way, and don't need to spend resources and money splitting hairs for a bit more SEO traffic. If you are just starting out you may need that kickstart, but focus on building something people will find interesting, not search engines. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-649016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 http://www.seomoz.org/term-extractor i found this really helpful as it ranks words used in your site seems good for selecting which keyowrds and phrases to use Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-669229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathican Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 This tool is an amazing keyword density analyzer. I find it rather handy http://www.ranks.nl/cgi-bin/ranksnl/spider/spider.cgi?lang= Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-676643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplist Posted November 14, 2008 Share Posted November 14, 2008 SEO is important, but don't tell me that myspace or facebook have done SEO - instead they became so popular that google assigned them an authoritative page rank. - Some food for thought. Yeah, it's true. Make your visitors come back then your website will survive and grow Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-690216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stublackett Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I've also found : http://www.seochat.com/ Pretty useful in terms of finding out, About the Google Spiders etc Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-716671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atticus Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 You may want to check out this keyword resource: http://www.google.com/sktool/# Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-733363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowowl Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 So were talkin about SEO... 1) Backlinks is one of the most important think you will need to do. It's how you can get better rankings. http://forums*digitalpoint*com/ ...replace * with . There are way better forums but DP is good for those who know very little. 2) Keywords. This is also very important. You can reaserch best searched keywords or most related here: https://adwords*google*com/select/KeywordToolExternal There are lots of more things you need to know but I think you can learn basics of them in forum I showed you above. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-770269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Found a nice plug in for Firefox called (oddly enough - SEO for Firefox). After installation, simply visit the site of your choice, then in the top menu, go to Tools > SEO for Firefox > Seo XRay. Makes hunting down which SEO related tags easier to spot (good for rapid SEO trouble shooting). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-829077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruiz Risner Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I think i know most of this stuff because im very familiar with web design and stuff. If i were familiar with those would SEO be easy to me? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-847970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
inovica Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I've found SEO for Dummies to be a really useful resource for getting started - I was skeptical about the dummies series at first but now I'm a convert! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/118258-seo-in-general/#findComment-914642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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