For me personally, it helps visitors to find the meaning of the website when user removes the 'picture' options in their browser. Though Chris mentions it's not important, however, after browsing through the nets of top ranking sites, it appears most have the above attributes mentioned.

However, to target very very competitive niche, perhaps listening to Chris' advise is necessary. The tilte tag and the whole lot is just white belt seo in my personal opinion. However to go into the depths, that's where internal linking, site structure, site visibility, css style design and links building comes into play. That differentiates an seo blackbelt with an seo whitebelt.

By the way, Chris, would you be kind enough to provide concrete examples of your points. I believe then this discussion will become more clearer and that the seo tactics that is mentioned is not seo at all.

Regards,
Jerry

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The thing that is mentioned about seo is very basic. Just type in google and say free seo training and you can have tonnes of similiar content. I believe many have followed the same advice that is given in the report, videos etc as found from it, but truthfully, how many really get #1 in google for their targetted keyword.

Personally, I found those with good unique keyword rich content practically dominates the search engines adn these give us a good clue what google really wants. Good content and popularity.

However, that two factor are the most difficult factors in SEO. If one can master these two, good ranking in search result is a guaranteed!

Jerry

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wow such a nice thread .......from ur conversation i got a lot ........i read it from first to last .......its really helpful for me to know about seo ......and chris one question may i know the diff between alt tag and meta tag .......and what is the key factor of seo ........i mean a big or single point from where we can start ........

can I answer this? i know just a few.

alt tags use for labels or name of the images, this could help in targeting certain keywords
meta tags use for bots or tell what bots can see in your site, like, description, title and keywords of your site.

WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Alt "tags" don't exist. http://www.webmaster-talk.com/seo-ta...nd-values.html

meta elements contain information about the data (page) AND the title is NOT a meta element

"key factor of SEO"? good content.

thanks a lot chris ......u clearly define the difference .......i just read the link u provide me which is absolutely amazing to understand what actually alt and meta tags are ......the conclusion i got is ....there is no such thing Alt tag .....but problem here is that most of the SEO's guiding us wrong or may be they are not professionals ......than how we understand the basics of SEO

but problem here is that most of the SEO's guiding us wrong or may be they are not professionals ...

Maybe or just plain dumb!

I agree to that. Most especially to anchor text. For me, proper anchor text is a big factor in ranking into a certain keywords.

In fact, one can find quite specific data on the Internet about the best amount of words/width of text/colour schemes, etc. but sometimes you also need a bit of luck to get to the top

Originally Posted by sunsiena

In fact, one can find quite specific data on the Internet about the best amount of words/width of text/colour schemes, etc. but sometimes you also need a bit of luck to get to the top

I'm curious about how you feel that text width and color schemes affect SEO. Could you expand on that please?

1.content
2. relevant keywords
3. domain name + domain trust
4. description
5. site map

Thanks For Best Information About Top Ten SEO Factor....
After Read This Post I Personally Think Contents Are The King For The Websites....

Do every thing what you think is right.
Google will do what it thinks.

Google will decide the top factors.

isn't that just G.O. rather than S.E.O. dyer?

I'm curious about how you feel that text width and color schemes affect SEO. Could you expand on that please?

He's thinking that if you use a lot of non-black text, you can do "black hat" seo but make it look other colours. Possibly. Otherwise it's just mad really. What in hell has colour got to do with anything (why do I find myself saying that so often these days?)

Originally Posted by witnesstheday

isn't that just G.O. rather than S.E.O. dyer?

If they really would like to test, we can conduct a SEO contest for a bran new website with same niche for same keywords.

what ever they think is right in SEO they can do.

Final decision will be Google's at the final day of contest

you may imagine, but for me the final decision is always made by my bank balance and its relationship with the famous indo-arab number "zero"!

I am a SEO learner and my order of preference is here.
1. Unique, quality content (I mean a bit keyword rich)
2. Title
3. Relevant backlinks from authority sites
4. Anchor text you use
There are many other small factors that I believe are a bit useful, like URL structure, keyword-rich domain, etc.

Submit into free directory and social bookmarking site are might be helpful for your seo.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

1. Nobody will disagree on this point.
2 NOPE!
3. even more definitely NOPE
4 No such thing READ This
5. there is no such thing as a header tag, Headers are HTTP responses sent by the server in response to a user agent HTTP request.
There are heading elements however.
6 anchor text is only SEO on your own site
7 Nope, Nothing at all to do with SEO
8 Not SEO at all, but advertising

So, Chris would you care to explain why you say "Links are advertising, Not optimizing". I think, You need to change that signature and posting "Not SEO at all, but advertising" kind of posts.

Do you think, Google doesn't give any importance to (quality) backlinks?

If links are advertising, To whom are they advertising? Are they advertising of your site to the visitors? or Are they advertising of your site to search engines?

Please clarify those doubts. If you don't clarify soon, my head might explode like a dynamite . Thanks.