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/SEO Basics

 You can update your Page Meta Content by going to the "Page Settings" area of any of your pages.

YourDomain.com > Pages > Default Group > YourPageName (X.html) > Page Settings :

 

There are several Important SEO settings here.

 

 

Page Meta Keywords

 

The art of listing your web site in search engines like Yahoo! and Google is a very complex and time consuming process.

Meta keywords are a very small factor these days.  Nonetheless, you should list any and all keywords you feel are important here to increase your ability to list in search engines.

There are many, many, many (get my point yet?), many different factors that affect your search engine position.  Let me list a few factors you can take advantage of:

  1. Put keywords in your page titles - Write sentences in your titles that contain as many keywords as you can while keeping them "readable".  Example:  We provide english books, childrens books, magazines, and novels.  Here the keywords are books, childrens books, english books, magazines and novels.  This will provide search engine value to your pages.
  2. Content - Provide a large amount of informational information or artciles making sure to mention keywords and/or phrases thoughout your document.  This both will provide useful information to visitors and provide more "meat" for a search engine to check out.  MAKE SURE you write real articles with useful information.  This, over time, may help your search engine rankings.
  3. Don't submit your site repeatedly - Submit your web site only once and wait.  Your site will eventually become indexed in the search engines and once you are placed anywhere within one search engine.. Others will follow.  Repeated submissions do not provide the value it would seem.
  4. Title images - Get in the habit to put a title under images you are using as visual aids in your page copy.  For instance, if you are selling "Aluminum Radiators" and you are showing a sample on your home page.  Put the word "Sample Aluminum Radiator" or another keywords phrase that makes sense to write.  This can only help.
  5. Don't keyword spam - Spamming is the practice of retyping the same keyword or phrase over and over again.  This will quickly cause your web site to become blacklisted from all the major search engines.  Don't do it.
  6. Don't hide text - Putting white text on a white background (or any combination that hides text) can also cause your site to become blacklisted and removed from search engines.
  7. Share links - Trading links with related web sites that already have very good search engine listings can help your site's rankings too.  It has to be a reciprocal link.  Meaning you put a link on your site and the reciprocating site puts your link on theirs.  One way linking may not work the same.

Page Meta Description

Meta Descriptions are a very small factor these days.  Nonetheless, you should enter a text description of your web site and what you provide here.

The description tag returns a description of the page in place of the summary the search engine would ordinarily create.

 

The above rules apply here as well.

 

Indexed By Search Engines

This option will allow the page to be seen by search engines. 

 

Include in Site Map

This option will add this page into the Sitemap when checked.

WebsiteForge provides an automatically generated Google/Bing Site Map for you. Its URL is http://YourDomain.com/sitemap_index.gz

You can find your specific link to your sitemap in the "Site Template and Settings" area.

 


You may contact support to obtain a free consultation with a search engine expert to learn some ways you can specifically increase your SE rankings..

 

 

 

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