I am building a website for a realtor. It seems that if the domain contains the search words (e.g “homes” and “Denver” and “realtor” to denverrealtor.com or denverhomes.com) it would rank higher in search engines than those with those words only as metatags.

Is this true? What is the ideal way to get high on the list?

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Answer by mavinakdel
metatags are important. Use all affiliated tags possible, homes for sale, homes, denver, real estate, realtor…you get my drift. Secondly….search engines browse your content looking for the same text that is in your meta tags. Make good use of your text. The more you use your tags in your text, the superior the engines like it

3rd. Let the search engines know you are out there, submit your site to as many as you can.

4th Links, Get as many reputable sites to link to you as possible, Link to reputable sites yourself. I can’t stress how important it is that sites you let link to you and that you link to be REPUTABLE.

5th. Keep your content fresh. Update your site weekly

6th. Networking, good old fashioned networking among your peers is still as important as it ever was.

7th. Emails, email your peers and let them know your site is there, traffic plays a role in SEO

good luck,

mavin

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Question by Timbuktu:
PHP/MySQL case question?
in my search engine script, i have the “select * from table1 where column1 like %$ _POST[search]% or column2 like etc”. But when i conduct the search, things appear to be case sensitive. For example, when searching for date, e.g. June, if i typed june, i could not find anything, only if i typed June.

i could use the “strtoupper” function like:

$ _POST[search]=strtoupper($ _POST[search]); before the query above, and then search all in CAPS?

any other solutions which will make things case insensitive?
or put differently: how do you make a query result case insensitive?

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Answer by Palash
just try this code

“select * from table1 where column1 like ‘%$ _POST[search]%’”

bsc your query is string not integer thats why your query not working properly.
Thanks

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Question by Shaun:
How do I align a google search engine code for a website *noob question *?

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Answer by Roxon
I am not 100% sure what you are asking, but if you want it aligned to the right you can do this:

If you want it in the bottom right, that will be trickier. It will require CSS and absolute positioning. You can read about that here:

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/csslayout.html

Hope this helps, and maybe you can post another more specific question.

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Answer by Velocity
Not to be cocky and answer with a question, but is not your question more specifically rooted in the legitimacy of this service, and the ethics behind it quite possibly being founded upon preying on sheer ignorance- hence breeding laziness within society?

If you recieved a legitimate answer, I am sure the suits would be on this topic and in a number of minutes it would never exist.

Charming.

But to answer your question at face value, people are lazy. This site caters to their laziness and your frustrations are ill-spent- its not that people do not know how to use a search engine. As Homer Simpson once said: “Can’t someone else do it?” He used it for a campaign, and he won Springfield’s support. Its the same here. Taking out the garbage is not that difficult.

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http://www.raz-sports.com/. My article section ranks well with all the search engines. Same goes for some of my directory pages. That being said, before I begin a large site promotion, I’d like to receive more feedback.

Before I start, I am have re-designed the site. However, during the time I been working on other prospects, including some scripting.

Now onto the website

What I would like to add is add the following features:

1. Score Board—> would include scores to MLB, NHL, NBA, NFL and so on.

2. Polls ——-> Asking different questions regarding sports such as your favorite baseball card.

3. Athlete of the week—> would like to have an athlete of the week for each sport.

4. Tools section—-> Will consist of future sports tools for webmasters.

My question is how should I break this site down?

Should I keep the navigation as is but add to it?
Example: Sports Articles/ Sports Directory/ Sports Forums/ Scores/Polls/Tools.

Or should I break the site into sports?
Example: create a baseball page that would list
sports news and facts. On this page would be links named as the following?

1. Baseball Directory–> links to baseball related websites.

2. Baseball Articles

3. Baseball Scores

4. Baseball Tools

and etc? Or would that be like spam?

Currently I do not believe my site spams. Do you agree? Any suggestions?

All your input is greatly appreciated.
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I guess the question is multi-fold.

1) Why is it people ask for people to do their homework for them? First of all, they will not get an answer right away, like they could with a easy google search using the EXACT SAME WORDING… and secondly, what makes them think they have the right to circumvent their own learning by having other people do the work for them?

2) Why cannot people figure out how to use a search engine? Seriously… type your question in the search box, and browse the first 3 or 4 results, and WHAM, there is your answer! Whatever happened to the drive to solve your own problems through personal research, instead of asking everyone else out there to do the research for you? Seriously, you could easily answer half of the questions asked by simply doing your own Google searches, but instead people impose on others to answer the question for them? *sigh*

3) How often are we going to see “How do I make a website?” questions? SERIOUSLY! I see like 4 or 5 of these per day!

4) When will people realize that there is a difference between programming and scripting? C++ : programming. PHP: Scripting. VB.NET: Programming. HTML: Scripting…

So yeah, some of this question is based in frustration… some of it is just my cynical humorous way of looking at the world.

BEST ANSWER is the one that makes me laugh the most.
Just to be clear, I know there are a lot of really good questions on here, and these are the ones I look for and attempt to answer… this place certainly serves a wonderful purpose…

But seriously, it’s filled with junk questions that are easily answered with a tiny desire to do so.

The question is, I have purchased an article submission software that needs me to manually submit my original articles to a list of article submission sites.

Is this good for SEO? because i know that search engine penalization occurs when theres duplication of content. I dont get penalised, but its the article submission site that gets it, so they like exclusive content to the ones that are widely distributed.

also, whats your take on content-spooler? its a script that scrambles your articles to make many version of it, that is unique, yet readable

Thanks for the time and input, greatly appreciated

and what do you

now the question: i wish to create a “”click next” button so that the user can navigate to the next 20 then next 20 and so on. how can i go by doing that? if i had 1 million records, of course when the user runs the script he or she will see a large large page and will take time for dquery to run. what is the solution here?

of course i have a search engine, which will help search by certain criteria, but i wish the user to access the whole data as well.
Xizzi, thanks a lot, that should definitely help, up to the point. Good place to spend the weekend for me
great answer.
Bernz, good points, thanks a lot.

didnt know dreamweaver could do that, seems like it is time for me that i used it.