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Old 03-08-2007, 01:53 AM How to know that a website is SEO friend
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I have few question:

-How do we know that a website is SEO friendly or not and how to verify?
-Is there any benefit to SEO by making frequently updating your website every day automaticaly?

I expect few points and inputs from all of you.
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Old 03-08-2007, 02:55 AM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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Automatically updating it every day is much worse than never updating it. If you use software to generate a bunch of random keyword, that's something you could get banned for. Or grabbing content from other sites, even ones like Wikipedia ( which is all "open source" GPL or Creative Commons licensed ), isn't helpful.

On the other hand, updating your site by writing some new content, is something the search engines love.

The main way to tell if a page is SEO friendly is whether it's user friendly. If anything is flashing, it's not friendly. If it has good info that's unique, it's very friendly. And then, to a lesser degree, you can make sure it has a good title, and the text content is broken up under hx tags - typically one h1 per page, and then however many lower ones as necessary.

If it's anything interesting, that can't be found somewhere else, people will naturally link to it, and the spiders will be happy when they crawl the site. Which is more often if the find changes when they visit.
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Old 03-08-2007, 03:47 AM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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1.if you get knowledge and found interesting..
2.definitely yes

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Old 03-08-2007, 06:25 AM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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Check the site if it has quality and fresh content. Content is the king of the site and the site must give valuable and interesting information. The site must build community that will help interact to the user. This through discussion board, guestbook or contact information.

Yes it will benefit to SEO if they update the site regularly
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Old 03-08-2007, 09:48 AM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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No offense. I don't get what quality, fresh and unique content means...
If i am running a small retail store, what i have to do to get quality, fresh and unique content? All online book stores can't become amazon.com There are only 10 places. Of course, you can if you have ENOUGH fund.

On the other hand, if you want to make your existing site SE friendly, consider good usability, as forrestcroce said, use title tag, only one h1 per page, write for clients (not for SEs).

Other points are avoiding image navigation at top, using breadcrumb link trail, good inner linking of pages, using site maps, avoiding javascript links, placing styles and scripts in external files will make your site SE friendly.
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Old 03-08-2007, 02:25 PM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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No offense. I don't get what quality, fresh and unique content means...
It means "content" ( text, illustrations, movie footage, music, interactive Flash, sample code, or whatever else ) that's interesting, fascinating, cool, and also not spread out across a few million web sites. Because in all honesty, if I can get something here, I won't go to a site I've never heard of before.

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If i am running a small retail store, what i have to do to get quality, fresh and unique content? All online book stores can't become amazon.com There are only 10 places. Of course, you can if you have ENOUGH fund.
All online book stores don't put together the content and interactivity ( reviews and such ) of Amazon. But you know what else? Most online book stores are crap. I'd rather go to the neighborhood book store, where I can pull a book off a shelf and flip through it, then poke around JoesBookz.com.

You only get out what you put in. Amazon put in some fancy programming, built a cool system, allow for reviews of all their wares from the general public, and rating those reviews, they make it easy to find things, and suggest other things you might like based on your surfing. There are a lot of mini-articles, like the top 10 things to pay attention to when you buy a widget.

All in all, Amazon is pretty cool, and why would you go somewhere else? Well, maybe on price, but they refer you to other places with lower prices, where they still get a cut. Maybe impatience, you want the book right away, so you go somewhere brick and mortar. Or maybe politics - Amazon makes heavy donations to the Republican party, while Barnes & Noble donate to the Democrats. Notice that "because some other web store exists" isn't a reason people will avoid shopping at Amazon?

You can take the approach that Amazon already beat you to it, that you're a store selling things, and don't need or can't have unique, quality content. I don't know why anyone would, as this relegates you to an also-ran, and forces you to work ten times as hard targeting obscure keywords that are almost never searched. I really don't see why this approach is so popular?
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Old 03-08-2007, 02:55 PM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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Kirtan, that new pic is kinda scary-looking.

On #1. Clean code, unique content, built for its users, tags used appropriately, nothing sneaky or spammy. Basically, SEO is becoming more and more about the user experience and less and less about things like keyword density and link building.

On #2: Updating, yes. Automatically, no. There really isn't anything automatic that would be done on a daily basis that wouldn't be harmful.
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Old 03-08-2007, 04:38 PM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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Check the site if it has quality and fresh content. Content is the king of the site and the site must give valuable and interesting information. The site must build community that will help interact to the user. This through discussion board, guestbook or contact information.

Yes it will benefit to SEO if they update the site regularly
Even though sites does not have a fresh content, it is still SEO friendly as long as the content can grab large amount of traffic and viewers can put their link as a reference.
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Old 03-09-2007, 12:41 AM Re: How to know that a website is SEO friend
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