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Business
Associates
Links to some of the business that I deal
with.
Computer Clubs
List of Australian clubs, providing information, training and social
actitities.
Dates
A list of venues.
Finding a Vendor
Table layouts showing where the vendors are/were located at the market.
Free
software
Links to Freeware sites.
News
Important information on issues that affect you.
Other
markets
A list of other computer markets in Australia
and overseas.
Site Map
Web pages found on this site
Tips
Tips and other useful information for Windows
users.
Trading
Want
to sell at the market?
Provides details and a vendor registration application.
Private sellers are also welcome.
Training
Computer courses available in South East
Qld.
Vendors
A comprehensive list of vendors and their
contact information.
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FOR WEBMASTERS
This article came from APC - Australian
Personal Computer magazine June 2003, page 146
"Secrets to being a Google king".
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10
point checklist so budding Webmasters can improve their site's
prominence on Google's results page.
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1..
DOMAIN NAME AND SERVER
Choose
an Australian .com.au domain if your
audience is local.
Ensure
your Web Hosting service provides you with a unique IP address.
eg 123.456.789.
Use
a domain name that is relevant, eg computerbrisbane.com.au
will rank higher higher in the SERP's
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2..
PAGE TITLE
Text in the site's <TITLE>
tag must be brief and clear.
Avoid flowery words and punctuation marks "", start
with the most important keywords , eg Servicing
the Brisbane area, not Fredd Bloggs,
MBSc, MSCE, JP Qual.
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3..STYLE
SHEET
Place style definitions in a CSS file. This moves the body of
the text close to the top of the document and shrinks the page
size.
Fast loading pages are important to visitors and Web crawlers.
Don't have too much content on one page. Make multiple pages.
They are smaller and you can track the web hits easier.
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4. META
TAGS
Some search engines use the KEYWORDS meta tag for ranking while
Google ignores it. An extract from the DESCRIPTION meta tag
sometimes appears in the Google SERP. Snippets from the body
text will appear.
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5.. BODY
CONTENT
Brett Tabke of Webmastersworld.com
recommends building "theme pyramids" where the directory
structure follows a particular theme within your site. EG, if
you sell new cars, used cars and care servicing, yoiu would have
three branches, each containing pages relevant to that theme.
Place key phrases towards the top of the pages and in headings
tags such as <H1>, but don't
get hung up on a single keyword for the whole site. Pick different
keywords for different pages so that you have more ways to be
found
Links to popular causes, memorial ribbons, HTML validation, page
counters and the like could lower your ranking and distract visitors
to other sites Likewise, consider placing non-commercial pages,
such as personal hobbies, genealogy and so on, at a secondary
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6.. LINKS
AND FOLDERS
Links a site map from the home page so that crawlers can find
the rest of your pages. Link each page to the home page and to
others in its logical group. The anchor text muse use key phrases
and words. Use keywords for directories, image names and ALT text |
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7. NEIGHBOURHOOD
WATCH
Get quality incoming links. Withgout referals, it;s nearly impossible
to be visisted by Googlebot. Grab such links from sites with
page ranking levels of three (PRS) or better, not from link
farms that are clearly built to foot search engines. Avoid links
from sites with PRO. Make it earier for other sites to use keyword-loadded
phrases in the links, such as by offering cut and paste slice
of HTML anchor code. Links from lower ranked peers won't penalise
you, but they won;t raise your PR either.
Add a judicious
number of outbound links to topica peers of the same o better
calibre. Google likes links to authoritative sitse, but don't
overdo the external links. Although such sites might not overtly
link to your site, their site statistics file might get crawled
and constitute a link back to you.
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8. CLOAKING
is generally a bad practice which hides content from humans
and search engines. Two good reasons for using it includes hiding
part of your optimised pages from competitors and showing different
pages to different visitors based on their browers.
Subscriber-only sites also manage to get into search engines
using a cloaking practice known as "agent name delivery",
which is a slab of code that checks whether the visitor is a
crawler o a human. Crawlers see the whole site, but others are
directed to a sign-up form.
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9. AVOID
- Gimmicks
JavaScrift effects, such as cursor trails, and transitions.
Your content needs to be close to the top of the page.
- Bad
HTML code eg <INDEX, NO
FOLLOW> asks for the site to be indexed by the web
crawler bnot to follow the links. If you copy code from another
site, know what the code means.
- Mutliple
sites with duplicate content and multiple
domains aliased to the same server are considered to be spamming.
Use a permament (301) redirect
on all secondary sites to point to the main domain.
- Multiple
copies of the same page
typically this is an entry page optimised with varying keywords
to lure different people (for example: crackz.htm, serials.htm,
passwords.htm and so on)
- Hidden
content
this can be text on the same colour background or a layer
with coordinates that are off the visible page.
- Flash
only pages
to avoid being penalised for a slick startup animation, have
a user agent entry check that displays Flash to enable browsers,
but plain HTML to crawlers and human visitors.
- Frames
Googlebot
will crawl links in the <NO FRAMES>
text, but not ones in the framed pages. Other search engines
might not crawl frames, so it's best to use tables. If you
must use frames, ensure that you use the correct DOCTYPE declarations
for frames.
- Submission
software or services
these submit your site to thousands of serach engines. You'll
get planty of spam, abuse and possible inclusion in link farms
that will ruin your reputation in Google's eyes.
- Session
IDs
sites that require session IDs from crawlers will get poor
visibility because the previous sessions will have expired
by the time Googlebot returns
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10. PATIENCE
Submit your site to other quality search
engines.
Increase the content and number of pages.
Get free or paid listings in Googleadwords, Yahoo!, Dmoz
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Disclaimer
The Sunday Computer
Market takes no responsibility for any of the information contained
on the linked sites.
If any of these links fails to work, please contact me at cwilkes@ine.com.au
Lasted updated 27 December, 2004
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