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Oh boy, this is fantastic.
I’m not making this up, I swear.
If you miss this, you’ll be kicking yourself.
It’s totally FREE!
Tons and tons of traffic and all UNIQUE!
It’s so simple and so brilliant.
You just have to get involved.
I did and WOW!

Unless you’ve been living on a desert island, you could hardly fail to notice that the official word is that Google and Bing do not use the keywords meta tag.
Why? Well basically the keywords meta tag allows a site owner to suggest what their site is about without actually paying any attention to it’s real content and purpose. If you think about it, it really is quite pointless. It’s a bit like asking the author of a book what the story is about and whether it’s any good. Far better to read the book and form your own opinion – well Google’s or Bings’ opinion anyway.
I still find it quite amazing that websites providing site analysis still flag up major alerts about failing to provide keywords – there’s actually little point in it (and yes I know mine still includes it). When we get the nod that Yahoo have spotted its futility, I shall be getting rid.
It kind of makes sense that you should just be concentrating on good quality content and not having to bother how the search engines perceive it. Create an XML sitemap and keep your site informative and useful then let “BinGoo” tell us what it’s about. Nuff said!

It really isn’t difficult to rank in Google very quickly. There is one big factor you must consider, you need a well established site that has plenty of unique already listed content in Google. Ah! you might say but, put the time in now to put together a site that has plenty of useful and/or informative content and you will be able to do the same.
There is another consideration, in my honest opinion, dot com sites will rank quicker than others and no one has proved me wrong yet – perhaps you can? Two important plugins are required for WordPress in my honest opinion: “Google XML Sitemaps” and “All in One SEO”. “Google XML Sitemaps” is the MOST important one, it puts together two files which it then sends to Google, Yahoo and Ask (Ask always comes back with an error for me but, that’s not so important as Google).
This is the basis for having a WordPress based site that will eventually rank posts quickly in Google.
Get in there and do it, you’ll be impressed by the results but, be patient in the early days if your domain is new.

It’s very simple really. Get tons of quality websites to list your URL then the traffic will flow because everyone can now find you.

Well let’s face it, not everyone wants to pay hundreds of $$$ or £££ to a slick professional SEO company who has steadily built links and done deals with other big companies so as soon as they place your URL in their SEO link building robot, hey presto, your Google rank shoots up.

Apparently there are other ways to address the “Getting Ranked” issue but, they take time and dedication. You are simply going to have to trawl the internet for websites that offer to scan your site for free and will then list you. There are quite a few of these but, they take a while to find and then register with. A trick I used was to follow a key site I know of, that belongs to someone who works for a venture capital company. They specialise in SEO and business marketing. I then attempted to register with these sites and after two or three days, my Alexa ranking drastically improved. However, it is now steadily slipping again which clearly indicates that you have to keep on top of it all by constantly finding new sites to get listed with. The big SEO companies will always have the advantage because they have automated systems that crawl the internet for places to list and new methods to keep people watching. You can do similar things but you have to know what works and that is going to take time and dedication. Trial and error is your only way through.

If you listen to the marketing gurus, they will tell you to make a video that advertizes your site and services but, not everyone is good at this sort of thing. It’s worth a shot though, it doesn’t cost anything but your time to post a video to YouTube. Well I’ve got to go now but I’ll be adding to this post so keep watching.

Giving value to your blog or website is like giving value to anything. People just want something useful in life. I am aiming to give value from my IT knowledge and expertize.

This is the one thing I have learned from reading masses of SEO literature. If you think you can get anything out of a blog that just babbles on about anything and nothing then it will have no value to anyone. So now I’ve wasted months just waffling, it’s time to give value and share my IT know how gained from 20 years in the industry.

If you’re stumped about an IT issue then please drop a comment into either this post or into the “Ask me” page comment box.

Desktop, Server, Switches, Routers, Virtual systems, VoIP, MS Windows, Linux Distros. Even MAC-not my area really but, I’ll give it a shot.