A couple of posts ago or something I’ve talked about the SandBox in general. If you haven’t read that post the link to it is http://www.4getschool.net/seo_tips_blog/2006/07/26/google-sandbox-an-overview/ . I’ve only scratched the surface in that post, and I hope in this post I could merely show some things that could be helpful to do while in the SandBox that might make your SandBox shorter =).
In regard to keywords you should:
I’m assuming you read my other post. So you know you get into the SandBox for targeting highly competitive keywords. Now, while in the Sandbox your site won’t appear for certain highly competitive keywords. In this period you will probably not get any traffic from these keywords. So my tip for you is try to target other not so highly competitive keywords at the same tiime so you could get some traffic.
In reagrd to your backlinks:
While in the SandBox GoOgle tests your site, finding out if it has worthy content and if it is spam or not. One of the thing that decides this is your number of backlinks. The more the better. Backlinks are like votes to your site so try and mak them worthy. If you want help in this I already blogged 4 or five times about this:
To be continued…
Hi,
It’s not a secret that this is my first site and the only PageRank I’ve evr seen on my site was a beautiful 0, zero 
. Anyways, two days ago I was taking a look at my homepage, and there it was a green color on my Google toolbar in the PageRank part. Now, when you’re a 13 ~ 14 year old like me, this isn’t something you can accept easily. You usually stare to the toolbar for something like 5 minutes. By the time these 5 minutes are over adrenaline has already flooded your body and when that is over you go on checking your at other sites about your own site’s PR. And when you’re sure that PR is correct, you jump singing Halilooya!! Never knew how to spell that word, anyways, coming to the part I’m blogging about.
Google went out and was obviously increasing new sites’ PR. Lots of members in the DigitalPoint forum with new sites have backed me up saying that their PRs have also jumped high in the sky. Most f them jumped to 5/10 ranks. Too bad I wasn’t included 
. Naa, just kidding lol, 2 is in some way meaning I am, in the eyes of Google, a better SEO than some lots of sites. I wasn’t actually working on getting links to my site lately, what a shame. The only time I get a short nap I get a short update LOL.
Just thought I’d write this blog for the people with new sites to go check their PR. Although I’m sure they already did when they read the title of this blog.
Good SEOing!
The GoOgle Sandbox is basically a period of time in which competitive keywords must wait they achieve results on GoOgle SERPs. Some people believe it’s real and some don’t but you’d better believe it if you don’t wanna get crazy . The Sandbox is only for some keywords, not the whole site. For example ::- lets say your site is trying to target these two keywords: “dogs” and ” dog routine and training”. Obviously the keyword “dogs” is gonna be highly competitive but the other one isn’t so highly competitive. So after correctly optimizing your site your site could appear for ” dog routine and training” while it will not show for “dogs” untill it is out of the sandbox.
There is probably no way for you to avoid the Sandbox. Whatever trick you use there is no way to avoid it! But you could do something else which is just avoid using highly competitive keywords but unfortunately you won’t get as much traffic [common sense]. While you’re in the sandbox, the only thing you can do is work on your content and make backlinks.
If you wanna find out if you’re in the sandbox just make a search for allinanchor:”keyword”, if your site turns up in the SERPs then I guess you’re in the Sandbox…
SEO tips and Search Engine Optimization tips…
Hope I helped…
In the last post in this series I mentioned the pros and cons of using dyanamic and static urls. I also mentioned that we’re gonna combine both, resulting in getting a strong powerful page which is partialy perfectly SEO’d. I said we’re gonna use a technique called Apache Mod ReWrite.
Apache Mod ReWrite is a powerful umm technique used to err basically masks a page to show you something. That doesn’t sound right LOL . It actually rewrites urls. So basically you give a url and it interprets it and gives you the result of another page. To help you understand this I’ll try and use lots of examples…
The simplest example would be for you to write index.htm and it prints the value of file.php. The mod rewrite expressions are written the .htaccess file…
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.htm file.php [L,NC]
Line By Line Explanation -::-
- This will tell the server to interpret a URL
- To intepret a URL, you have to define a RewriteRule with the first parameter as the URL you’re gonna give and the second parameter will have the URL of the results you want to be shown…
Now you might be wondering how the hell is that useful? An example would is that I have this file: showbook.php?book=int&type=int . But I want to show it as a normal .htm file, what would you do?
RewriteRule ^showbook-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*).htm showbook.php?book=$1&type=$2 [L,NC]
See? It’s kind of simple.. Now let’s take a look at what this code will actually give out:
showbook-4-5.htm
Will actually give the html code of:
showbook.php?book=4&type=5
*Please note that the variables here are represented with a $ sign and each RewriteRule parameter has a Regular Expression. And there is also no limit for the number of RewriteRules in a .htaccess file, but putting alot could actually cause some heavy load on your server and hence slower code processing..
And by this you get the ability to use query strings and at the same time have good SEO’d landing URLs.
Hope I helped … SEO tips…
Before I can start a discussion about this topic I have to be sure you understand wth I’m talking about , LOL .
Dynamic URL: a url with a query string ex: portal.php?sid=47327&q=er&w=33
Static URL: a url with no or simple query strings ex:portal.html OR portal.php?q=er
Lots of people wonder which one is better, for a first step, we’ll figure out some of the pros and cons of each 
Dynamic URLS:
Pros: It can give very much power to your pages. EX: each different query string could give you a different output/page.
Cons: GoOgle itself says:
/*/
If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few. /*/
I guess that is one big advantage for static URLS.
Static URLS:
PROS: Easier to crawl by bots and better for search engines, thus better for SEO.
CONS: Using a dynamic url would give you lots of more options and power to control your site.
Yes, I feel both are lovely too lol , and I’m not ready to give up one one. In the next post of this series I’ll show you how to combine Query strings into a url while it’s a static url using the Apache Mod ReWrite .
SEO tips..
Before I can start a discussion about this topic I have to be sure you understand wth I’m talking about , LOL .
Dynamic URL: a url with a query string ex: portal.php?sid=47327&q=er&w=33
Static URL: a url with no or simple query strings ex:portal.html OR portal.php?q=er
Lots of people wonder which one is better, for a first step, we’ll figure out some of the pros and cons of each
Dynamic URLS:
Pros: It can give very much power to your pages. EX: each different query string could give you a different output/page.
Cons: GoOgle itself says:
/*/
If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few. /*/
I guess that is one big advantage for static URLS.
Static URLS:
PROS: Easier to crawl by bots and better for search engines, thus better for SEO.
CONS: Using a dynamic url would give you lots of more options and power to control your site.
Yes, I feel both are lovely too lol , and I’m not ready to give up one one. In the next post of this series I’ll show you how to combine Query strings into a url while it’s a static url using the Apache Mod ReWrite .
SEO tips..
We all know search ebgines are kinda buggy, or the write word is “picky”. If it was a human it would be hated as it offers no energy when needed . All the great search engines, GoOgle, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.. like clean code. Clean code could mean alot, but in simple words it’s code that looks good.
Web pages are interpreted by browsers when they take a look at your code. HTML is kind of loose. Different browsers could interpret it differently sometimes. As it isn’t always written very well. HTML could have unclosed tags, unused tags, etc.. Now, XHTML is totaly different. There is no kidding in it, what you gotta do you gotta do. You have to close tags, put self closing tags etc.. Now what does this have to do Search Engines? It has alot to do with it actually.
I believe by now, you could imagine that XHTML is prefered by search engines, ’cause it is strict . A big part of SEO is making a bot successfully crawl your page. For search engines’ bots to successfully crawl your site you have to have clean code. Why? For lots of reasons that include getting the actual content/text from your page. So if they get wrong things from your site you could result in getting an SEO disaster.
You can find out if your code is validated at the following web page:
The W3C Markup Validation Service :: XHTML & HTML validation
SEO tips..
There are many strategies out there, in this blog, I’ll disuss only a crippling little number of them.
Starting off, I’ll go with a sub-title like: “Add your URL to every freakin website you come accross to”. Hmm.. an interesting sub-title LOL. Many sites wanna look fancy by giving people the chance to add their url to their site. To find these sites, you might aswell use GoOgle, and search for,err…for example “Add URL” I think that would be enough to get you thousands of links to your site..
Sub Title : “Just ask a webmaster for a link..”. This is probably the easiest way of all. If you find a site that discusses a similar topic to yours, just send the webmaster of that site an e-mail. If you’re site is good enough he will probably add a link to your site. This method always works just fine!
Sub Title : “Offer things”. This is a very ast subject too, but you might as well summarize it to: Offer someone an ad on a newsletter of yours, offer a freebie file, and make the site to add your link,offer to put a banner on your site in exchange for a text link etc…
Sub-title: “Press Releases”. Many websites offer free press release publishing services. Usually, these sites are visited often by search engine bots. Try to write press releases and enclose your link in them, that will also provide you with valuable links.
Getting Links To Your Site | Part 3 | Mixed Strategies to be continued…
Reciprocal Linking: Reciprocal linking is a mutual linking between two sites.
Reciprocal linking is alot easier to get than trying to get a single direction link as you just put a link on your site and another puts your site. Reciprocal linking is usually used to get high rankings in search engines.
When reciprocally linking remember to:
- Accept reciprocally linking with sites with high PRs.
- Accept reciprocally linking with low Alexa Ranks, the less the better.
- In the link’s text, remember to include your keywords.
- Don’t put too many links in one page, GoOgle penatalizes on that, and counts it as a Link Farm.
I reccommend you to use Link Market. It is a very good link exchanging directory with a blowing PR5. This is just an overview. Hope it helps.
Oh and your site’s PageRank counts on the other sites’ PR linking to yours. But this has a special post.
In this post, i’ll discuss keywords weight using header tags.
First of all header tags are:
h1
h2
h3
etc.. Please note that I separated them with spaces so they aren’t actually counted as html code.
Now as we know, keyword targeting is based on keyword density, how many times it has been put, and the keyword’s weight. To increase the keyword’s weight we need to emphazize the keyword we are targeting. There are many words to emphazize them, in this post, I’ll be talking about emphazizing them using header tags.
Header tags’ values are greater the smaller they are, for example a value of a tag is greater than the value of an tag. Now, believe it or not but GoOgle finds text in tags more important than the meta keywords tags itself. So, in order for you to properly optimize a a keyword it is very important to include it in header tags,, especially the very valuable ones.
Don’t forget, GoOgle loves structure so it is better to correctly order your text..
I.E:
h1 Very important text
h2 Important text
h3 A little less important text
And so on…..
May the Keyword Weight & Density Series begin…
