Search Engine Optimization - Optimizing a site for the ability of being found by the search engines and making it more available to show up in the results pages and to be able to make a site to be returned in the top of those results pages.

The way you optimize the website is by making sure that the copy text is relevant enough to be found and also be portrayed as being the best to show up in the top results. Links from relevant sites help this process. Making sure that you use headings and proper html coding, never waste html space as this is only what the robot can read. It reads and not sees of course, so having images, flash, etc taking up space without content is a big mistake that is often done. Of course other things need to be beefed up if someone wants to use flash and other space taking items. A website does need at least one link from an already established site to be found by a search engine crawler.

One needs to make sure that they can make their code as clean as possible. This makes the over all site less in size making the site download quicker also. You need to make sure that your site is readable in all type browsers, this way you know there isn’t any hick ups in the code that could cause the robot not be able to read your code clearly. Although, this isn’t a large necessity for SEO it might help more than manually submitting your site to search engines. If you feel you need to do something clean code before submitting.

Well have you ever tried to help someone and they cheated you? Yep, it has happened to me. I should have seen it coming though, but still wanted to help this person out. I paid for some sponsored and featured ads in her newly made directory in June. I paid up for a year. The total was over $140, the site was up for approximately 2 months, I got less than 2 months worth of featured and sponsored listings. Am I mad, of course I am! She stole my money! So I am going to spread the truth about her lies, and her credibility will be diminishing. I feel she owes me back my money as I did not receive what I was suppose to. Since, I can not do a charge back as it is over 45 days I will put everything I can that I know about her, except for the direct use of her name. There might be some to figure out who it is.  - My links are to the left, top 5 of the sponsored links, starting with “The Bear Facts”.

This person claims to be an SEO, but actually after some investigation it appears that it isn’t as it seems. It is a lot of talk mostly. What was found during researching was she actually had help from other people to do her SEO, yet she claims to have done it. I found her asking for help on an SEO forum, yep asking for help to SEO one of her sites. I think she blows a lot of smoke LOL!!! I am using one of her phrases she used when describing some of my advice I gave to her a few months ago, on another SEO forum.

Proof of asking for help:

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30332 ,

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30035

As you can see for those of you who have figured this out, that she is’t all of who she says she is like an expert in SEO.

She should have followed my advice, as she is losing things like her blogs. The funny thing is that she actually claims she closed them herself to add Adsense, now why would someone shut down blogs that had PR and a lot of content. She claims she was going to move them. Here is the common sense part, a person would keep them up until all the information got transferred to the new blogs right? You can view this one: http://learnseo.wordpress.com/, if you read the TOS you would probably notice the do not use for spam, use to boost search engine rankings of 3rd party sites. Guess what, this was violated, yep too many blogs created to artificially boost links and ranking for her other sites. She should have read my article “To Blog or Not to Blog“.

At any rate I hope she can rest well after stealing money from me,(or others as I have found out) or of the lies she tends to do. She claims to design websites, this isn’t true either. There is someone who does the graphics, why he does them and let her take the credit is beyond me. Grow up and tell people the truth!  Not only that the two are not even doing web design, they are changing pre made templates available from Shopster. Make a template from blank HTML, then they would designing, until then they need to stop taking people’s money for something they are not doing.

One last thing, not only have I figured out that she isn’t who she says she is, her past websites ventures have been failures. This was for 2 websites, a gift basket site and a mall site (huge, yep same domain she is using now).

There I feel better. Now, if she reads this and wants it removed she needs to give me back my money for the months I didn’t get, and the partial payment for the month of July cause it went down about the 28th.

Getting stressed by your webstats or add impressions compared to clicks? Here is some advice from one who used to be worried and stressed about their stats, impressions, and clicks. One should not get alarmed when they know the reports are not working correctly, give it a few days if there is a bug or problem with servers. Most stat programs are not the best at showing exact results.  You will have more time to do other things if you don’t stress and check these things daily.

I used to stress out with my oldest site and watch the stats. It was like a frenzy daily hoping more visitors come. It can really strain a person mentally. Once you get in the state of mind of not watching the pot to see if it is going to boil your time will pass by quicker and soon you will see your stats jump, which feels a lot better than moving up a few or less than a few when checking daily. I don’t check some of my sites. It can be months before I check and see how they are doing. It is less stressful not worrying if they are gaining more visitors or not. I find it is better to use your energy by adding more content or links which can be more useful in gaining more targeted traffic.

Now this advice can be the same with watching SERPs(search engine results pages). So many people feel they have to watch certain SERPs daily. They check the top 3 search engines and they are consumed with it. I can be asked by people have I checked Google lately since they notice something going on in the SERPs, of course, I haven’t noticed as I am not checking everyday.:-)

What I am trying to say is the more relaxed I was and just let the time go by and busy myself with other things I seen results, as time needs to go by before seeing results. This also helps you be less stressed as stress can really harm your health, especially for those who lose sleep over their stats and adverts. Trust me I know a few people who loose sleep.:-)