Dec 312010
 

One of the hardest parts about doing internet marketing and search engine optimization is getting pages indexed in Google. In some cases, this just does not happen. I am not sure why, but there must be something Google does not like about the page. Now if your entire sites isn’t indexed (I know what that is like) that is another mystery altogether. What I am talking about is one or more pages not indexed. Right now, I am working on a exchanging personal injury links and trying to get a new page indexed to facilitate the link exchange. The link page is on a personal injury site and I have done some exchanges that are on hold until my new page is indexed. Perhaps I should have placed the links on an older indexed page.

What I typically do is to build the pages way a head of when they will be needed. That way by the time I get to them, they are indexed. Linking can be one of the most beneficial elements of improving your ranking in Google. One of the better methods I have found is to place an rss feed of your site, or the page in question into feedage.com. Feedage is an RSS directory and Google crawls it many time and hour. Therefore, if you have feeds lists in their directory they should end up coming to your site. If you use wordpress or any program that generates an rss feed automatically it makes this process much easier. If you are not using wordpress, Feedage has an “html to rss” tool that will convert a page to an rss feed which then you can submit.

Dec 132010
 

Isn’t this what most small businesses want?

WordPress (wp) is by far one of the best options for building a website inexpensively that does well in Google. Besides doing very well in Google, it offers many important free plug-ins and hundreds of free designs (templates). Another big plus is the many free feature built in to the program. For example, the ability to have many users with different levels of access and control. You can password protect certain pages. One of the most important features is a revision option to let you go back to a previous page or post version if there is a problem. These are just a few of the many reasons why I think it is a valuable program and easy enough for anyone to update and maintain.

To continue on the path to the best return on investment (ROI) I recommend a hosting company that has a simple one button install like fastdomain.com. Fastdomain offers unlimted website hosting on their account for around $80 per year. Each account includes one free domain. Additional sites only cost the price of a domain. Domains should be no more that $10 per year, which can be purchased within the same account.

Use this link http://hosting.fastdomain.com/track/seodoesmatter/CODE47 Use your business name or as get as close as possible for the domain for your main site. You should build other sites and they should be based on keywords and built for lead generation expectations only.

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