Getting Your Website Seen! HELP!

[Dr. V] · June 18th, 2007

It's quite simple really...

I need to get my customer's website out there and really known to the search engine world and just give him a nice presence. Please help me out!!!

I don't know really an advertisement company, or certain things that need to be in the sites for these engines to find them and give him hits! He really needs some traffic to get some business, so please try and help me out guys!

Welcome to Ken Edge Music

THANKS!!!

Zambini · June 18th, 2007

If I knew the answer to that, You'd all be at ZambiniDirect.com right now. LoL.

Best thing I can say is tell your friends about it, or you could advertise with your car.
How to Turn a Car Into a Moving Advertisement - wikiHow
or show him this too
How to Advertise Your Home Business Online - wikiHow

[Dr. V] · June 18th, 2007

Well a lot of the info that's on that second page is what I'm talking about. Using banners, advertising online - how should I actually go about doing that?

How do I tell a website to advertise my banner for me...or get search engines to actually bring up the website when I type in even the name of it (go ahead, type in ken edge music into Google, you won't get the site) - I just don't know this aspect of the web designing spectrum. There has to be a logical, systematic way of getting this done...I just can't seem to figure it out.

**Capper** · June 18th, 2007

honestly, everything is based on traffic. sites that have fresh content and are linked by other sites get ranked higher.......which isn't great for a small company like that with a pretty static page.

All I can say is try to get his site linked on other sites, preferably high traffic and well established sites.....be warned that most times they will not do it for free though

google sitemaps - Google Search

Zambini · June 18th, 2007

Most websites have an "Advertise with us" or something of the like button. Just hit Control+F and type "Advertise" and you'll find something.

Hit up the demographic of ur customer's site.

robodude666 · June 18th, 2007

No search bot or search engine will every find that website. Why? Because its all images. Search engines relay on keywords when searching pages. They can't read images, sorry.

One thing you could do is be a cheap @$$ and put a whole list of popular keywords on the bottom in comments.

Oh, P.S.... HTML is all lowercase, no caps.
oh, P.S.S. Its missing a DOCTYPE :)

[Dr. V] · June 18th, 2007

I'm gonna be honest and say I have no idea what you meant by the PS and the PSS...

But the keywords make sense. How do I make the comments? I completely forgot...

Basically if they're in the HTML code, the search engines will pick up the words. I understand that part, which helps a great deal. Now just to get them in there as only comments.

Also, the sitemaps is something I had set up for him, he just hasn't decided whether or not he wanted to continue them. I'm going to encourage him to do so. As for looking for sites, I will try my best to find ones to advertise on for free or rather good rates.

Thanks guys!

If you got more, keep 'em comin'! This could be great help for more than just me!

robodude666 · June 18th, 2007

Uhhh, what I ment by the P.S is this.

In the website's source you have something like so:

Code:

<A 
    HREF="venues_sm.html"
    onMouseOver = "rollover('home7')" 
    onMouseOut  = "rollout('home7')" 
    ><IMG 
    SRC="images/venues_button_1_sm.jpg" 
    NAME="home7" 
    ALT="Contact Information" BORDER=0 
    ></A>

This is wrong. The correct way is:

Code:

<a href="venues_sm.html" onmouseover="rollover('home7')" onmouseout="rollout('home7')" title=""><img src="images/venues_button_1_sm.jpg" name="home7" alt="Contact Information" border="0" /></a>

Setting border=0 is nice, but why do that for all images if you can have
img{border:0px;}
in the CSS?

As for the DOCTYPE, I suggest using this at the top of the page:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Either one of those would work. But XHTML strict is mostly all CSS and no tables, center tags, etc. center doesn't exist in XHTML.... And all tags that don't have a close tag need a / at the end, for example:
<img src="" alt="" />
<br />
<hr />
etc... Oh, and all anchors should have a title and all images should have an alt... Even if they are blank. But try to use them. It helps with accessibility if a person with poor vision comes on the site, their reader program can help guide them.

As for comments....

Code:

<!-- Comment here -->

On second though, it won't work because comments are for human eyes only.

You can add keywords into meta tags... If you never used them before, heres a simple meta tag generator:

META Tag Builder

Just fill in the fields press create and copy the meta tags from the output into the head as shown.

[Dr. V] · June 19th, 2007

Whoa that's a really good generator. I'm actually going to get to that either tonight or tomorrow night (depends on when I have time).

Thanks!

robodude666 · June 19th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by ST!X

Whoa that's a really good generator. I'm actually going to get to that either tonight or tomorrow night (depends on when I have time).

Thanks!

No problem :)

June 18th, 2007	#1
[Dr. V] They calls me [Dr. V] Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,633	Getting Your Website Seen! HELP! It's quite simple really... I need to get my customer's website out there and really known to the search engine world and just give him a nice presence. Please help me out!!! I don't know really an advertisement company, or certain things that need to be in the sites for these engines to find them and give him hits! He really needs some traffic to get some business, so please try and help me out guys! Welcome to Ken Edge Music THANKS!!! Last edited by [Dr. V]; June 18th, 2007 at 08:33.

June 18th, 2007	#2
Zambini Lvl 1 College Student Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St. Mere du SantaCruz Posts: 1,888 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Getting Your Website Seen! HELP! If I knew the answer to that, You'd all be at ZambiniDirect.com right now. LoL. Best thing I can say is tell your friends about it, or you could advertise with your car. How to Turn a Car Into a Moving Advertisement - wikiHow or show him this too How to Advertise Your Home Business Online - wikiHow

June 18th, 2007	#3
[Dr. V] They calls me [Dr. V] Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,633	Re: Getting Your Website Seen! HELP! Well a lot of the info that's on that second page is what I'm talking about. Using banners, advertising online - how should I actually go about doing that? How do I tell a website to advertise my banner for me...or get search engines to actually bring up the website when I type in even the name of it (go ahead, type in ken edge music into Google, you won't get the site) - I just don't know this aspect of the web designing spectrum. There has to be a logical, systematic way of getting this done...I just can't seem to figure it out.

June 18th, 2007	#4
Capper The Final Word Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 5,546 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Getting Your Website Seen! HELP! honestly, everything is based on traffic. sites that have fresh content and are linked by other sites get ranked higher.......which isn't great for a small company like that with a pretty static page. All I can say is try to get his site linked on other sites, preferably high traffic and well established sites.....be warned that most times they will not do it for free though google sitemaps - Google Search INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU

June 18th, 2007	#5
Zambini Lvl 1 College Student Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St. Mere du SantaCruz Posts: 1,888 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Getting Your Website Seen! HELP! Most websites have an "Advertise with us" or something of the like button. Just hit Control+F and type "Advertise" and you'll find something. Hit up the demographic of ur customer's site.

June 18th, 2007	#6
robodude666 "...a happy ending" Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 324	Re: Getting Your Website Seen! HELP! No search bot or search engine will every find that website. Why? Because its all images. Search engines relay on keywords when searching pages. They can't read images, sorry. One thing you could do is be a cheap @$$ and put a whole list of popular keywords on the bottom in comments. Oh, P.S.... HTML is all lowercase, no caps. oh, P.S.S. Its missing a DOCTYPE :) Last edited by robodude666; June 18th, 2007 at 19:00.

June 19th, 2007	#9
[Dr. V] They calls me [Dr. V] Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,633	Re: Getting Your Website Seen! HELP! Whoa that's a really good generator. I'm actually going to get to that either tonight or tomorrow night (depends on when I have time). Thanks!

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