I'm looking for a little advice for SEO. I don't know which sources to believe on the internet - many of them are just trying to get me to buy there services.

I have a new site (www.cpuvid.com). Its a database of CPU VIDs and Batch numbers - a very useful tool to the computer enthusiast community.

What I have done so far:
- Used a descriptive home page - key words, but not overly saturated with them.
- Posted it on an overclocking forum that I'm a member of - which is providing nearly all of the traffic so far.
- Tried posting it on other forums - but they thought it was spam. I'm not an established member on many forums.

What would you guys suggest? The site hasn't been indexed with Google yet I don't believe.

As a note - the ads and affiliate program with Newegg.com supports a local non-profit organization.

Thanks for the help and suggestions

It's hard to learn all about seo in one post. Sadly there is a lot of garbage info online, including here. It's especially hard since in the beginning you can't sort out the good from bad.

Here are some articles from SEOmoz. There are a lot of free guides listed. They used to have a Beginner's guide to seo, but I'm not seeing it now. I know it's being rewritten so maybe it will show up again soon or maybe I just missed it.

Another good free guide is SEO Fast Start. You'll have to give out your email address, but it's worth it.

The reason I'm pointing you to the guides is because they'll give you a better overall appoach to seo. SEO is not about making a couple changes here or there. It's marketing. You have to take a step back and see it that way instead of looking for looking for a tip here or there.

Looks to me like you're number 2

Originally Posted by vangogh

It's hard to learn all about seo in one post. Sadly there is a lot of garbage info online, including here. It's especially hard since in the beginning you can't sort out the good from bad.

Here are some articles from SEOmoz. There are a lot of free guides listed. They used to have a Beginner's guide to seo, but I'm not seeing it now. I know it's being rewritten so maybe it will show up again soon or maybe I just missed it.

Another good free guide is SEO Fast Start. You'll have to give out your email address, but it's worth it.

The reason I'm pointing you to the guides is because they'll give you a better overall appoach to seo. SEO is not about making a couple changes here or there. It's marketing. You have to take a step back and see it that way instead of looking for looking for a tip here or there.

Thanks. I will look into those sources. I understand that SEO isn't something simple, but at least this gives me a good start.

Originally Posted by willcode4beer

Looks to me like you're number 2

Hmm - It wasn't on the first page before I posted this.

Does "adding a result" to google help with ranking? I did that and I see that one other person did and the ranking appears to be better.

Originally Posted by eollis

I'm looking for a little advice for SEO. I don't know which sources to believe on the internet - many of them are just trying to get me to buy there services.

I have a new site (www.cpuvid.com). Its a database of CPU VIDs and Batch numbers - a very useful tool to the computer enthusiast community.

What I have done so far:
- Used a descriptive home page - key words, but not overly saturated with them.
- Posted it on an overclocking forum that I'm a member of - which is providing nearly all of the traffic so far.
- Tried posting it on other forums - but they thought it was spam. I'm not an established member on many forums.

What would you guys suggest? The site hasn't been indexed with Google yet I don't believe.

As a note - the ads and affiliate program with Newegg.com supports a local non-profit organization.

Thanks for the help and suggestions

In any situation new site will be indexed and will be in sand box for a period like 1-3 months , may be more.. So after that onle will be any type of penalization or devaluation etc.. so no need to worry much for new sites. do whie hat SEO and moniter the SEO works by third party tool...

I'm afraid good seo can take time. You can increase your standing in forums by contributing more before you mention your own sites and make meaningful contributions also. Could you get respected blogs in your niche to write about your site and give you a link. You may have to pay or write the content for them. Can you generate some sort of 'buzz' around your site so others will naturally link to it.
Again it all takes time - be patient.

To get your site indexed by Google you should create few back links by blog commenting. In this way Google will come to your site and will index it if and only if there are no barriers that might cause trouble for bot to crawl and index your web site. Keep that in mind that blog must b a Do Follow Blog Other wise bot won't come to your site.

Best OF Luck

Originally Posted by shakir

In any situation new site will be indexed and will be in sand box for a period like 1-3 months , may be more.. So after that onle will be any type of penalization or devaluation etc.. so no need to worry much for new sites. do whie hat SEO and moniter the SEO works by third party tool...

Sandboxed for 1-3 months?

I don't think so, I've had new sites receiving traffic from Google within an hour of going live.

Originally Posted by willcode4beer

Also, Does "adding a result" to google help with ranking? I did that and I see that one other person did and the ranking appears to be better.

looks like you answered your own question ;-)

Go through this forums,you may get learned for 95% seo knowledge,trust me.

my suggestions:
firstly, try to set up a site that's easy to indexed by search engine.

secondly, add as many content as you can you think useful to your readers

thirdly, you have to promote it,unless you dont want traffic or sales from it.

good luck.

Do a little on-site optimization as well from what i see your root page doesn't have a - title tag (very very important in SEO) also,
- use your meta tags:description, keywords, robots etc
- bold your main keywords (you can also put a relevant link to some of the) quality links count a lot in SEO even if they are on-site,
- create a html sitemap for your site to make it user friendly
- customize your 404 page to make your site user friendly
- create a XML site map for google

P.S. This is what i've seen in a quick look. Note this frist make your site user friendly and afterwords think about search engines spiders,your trying to get clients not spiders!

P.S.S Don't forget about off-site SEO (directories, articles, press releases, social bookmarking) etc.

Originally Posted by eollis

looks like you answered your own question ;-)

Originally Posted by theheaven

Go through this forums,you may get learned for 95% seo knowledge,trust me.

my suggestions:
firstly, try to set up a site that's easy to indexed by search engine.

secondly, add as many content as you can you think useful to your readers

thirdly, you have to promote it,unless you dont want traffic or sales from it.

good luck.

1. What would you suggest for that? Currently its a simple wordpress site, made in under an hour. Only a few pages and the titles of the pages are reflected in the URL.

2. In the future I hope to be able to add a blog with links to reviews and other news.

3. Working on it. I already showed it to people on overclock.net, which it was a pretty good success. If anyone is members on other computer enthusiast forums, feel free to share the link. Its hard for a new member to go around sharing the link because they will mark it as spam.

Originally Posted by El3m3nT

Do a little on-site optimization as well from what i see your root page doesn't have a - title tag (very very important in SEO) also,
- use your meta tags:description, keywords, robots etc
- bold your main keywords (you can also put a relevant link to some of the) quality links count a lot in SEO even if they are on-site,
- create a html sitemap for your site to make it user friendly
- customize your 404 page to make your site user friendly
- create a XML site map for google

P.S. This is what i've seen in a quick look. Note this frist make your site user friendly and afterwords think about search engines spiders,your trying to get clients not spiders!

P.S.S Don't forget about off-site SEO (directories, articles, press releases, social bookmarking) etc.

use your meta tags:description, keywords, robots etc
- Yes, did that already
bold your main keywords (you can also put a relevant link to some of the) quality links count a lot in SEO even if they are on-site,
-Bold keywords? Why would this help?
create a html sitemap for your site to make it user friendly
- Currently the site doesn't have an embedded pages, but I will keep that in mind as it expands.
customize your 404 page to make your site user friendly
- Thanks, I will do that.
create a XML site map for google
- That was another thing on my to-do list. I believe Wordpress has something built in to automatically create that for me. THen I just have to submit it.

Thanks for the help guys.

For onsite seo, make sure you "sprinkle" keywords (don't spam) into title tags, description and keywords tags, h1-h6, alt text, content and page and picture urls.

For offsite, seo, try social bookmarking - eg digg propeller mixx oyax, putting your signature links on forums (link juice is pretty low), directories, commenting on relevant blogs (again low link juice), squidoo, articles such as ezine or goarticle.

Good luck. Don't lose heart if your site is new - Google often penalises new sites, but build up your links and get your onpage seo right.

time is normally needed to build traffic from Google. Work in the mean time on back links as mentioned above and do not forget Google loves content so make maybe some more pages about the subject written from different angles.

all you need to do is to apply and test what they are telling to you because this is the only way to determine which are effective and which are not.

Originally Posted by loniperpento

...do not forget Google loves content so make maybe some more pages about the subject written from different angles.

Users like good content even more than Google. So make sure there is a good reason for someone to actually visit the site.

What's the point of a high google ranking if folks just click "back" after seeing your site?

Here's a suggestion to help you save time trying to read all the posts in seo threads:
Do a search for posts by one of the moderators, like, chrishirst or willcode4beer, and their comment often confirms that some idea in the previous several posts is a valid one, or debunks some idea that doesn't really work.
I've learned alot from them, & their comments have saved me several times from wasting time trying out some method that doesn't work well or is obsolete.

blog commenting is the best way to get your sites indexed and ranking well. you should leave your links with good text anchor of keywords.

The site is indexed with google now. Try to get links on pages that are relevant to the keywords that you are trying to rank well. If you can't find relevant pages to get your links on, then just focus on getting the links and not worrying about the relevancy. Forums and blogs are good for links, but make sure that they are dofollow.

Learn your self some seo tactics and also if you have no time than hire one seo expert for your site. You can find many seo expert here in this forum also.