search engine ranking

OK. I've read the entire SEO guy tutorial. (haven't fully digested and implemented, but am at least familiar with his strategies.) I have a couple specific questions for you. 1). What is the significance of the first line of your code on your index page? I did not see any reference to this in the tutorial. I see other high ranking sites have this also. 2). Meta name=keywords...does this mean that your keywords are on an external page that is being referenced as opposed to listing them directly on your page?

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

1). What is the significance of the first line of your code on your index page? I did not see any reference to this in the tutorial. I see other high ranking sites have this also.

Are you asking about this?

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

2). Meta name=keywords...does this mean that your keywords are on an external page that is being referenced as opposed to listing them directly on your page?

No. Meta information such as "keywords" and "description" is defined in the "head" section of a document.

06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Blackwell

Are you asking about this?

No. Meta information such as "keywords" and "description" is defined in the "head" section of a document.

Yes, that is line I am asking about.

And where are your keywords listed?

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

Yes, that is line I am asking about.

That is a document type declaration (DOCTYPE).

"The document type declaration names the document type definition (DTD) in use for the document."

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

And where are your keywords listed?

Code:

 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html> 
<head>
<title>Sales and Marketing Forums - SalesPractice&trade;</title>
<meta name="description" content="Sales and Marketing Forums, Directory, Books and more.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Sales and Marketing">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.salespractice.com/style.css">
</head>

I was curious because I didn't see a list of keywords. For example, this is #2 on Yahoo for the search term "sales":

<META NAME = "keywords" CONTENT = "Sale Creators,consultants, marketing, sales, business, retail, sales and marketing consultant, sales consultant, marketing, CONSULTING, SALES,starting a new business, new business, Internet design, Internet marketing, Internet promotion, better web site, maintenance of Internet site, more sales, promotions, sales training, Spokane, Washington, positive sales environment, marketing campaign,.... "

It goes on for 10 more lines...

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

I was curious because I didn't see a list of keywords.

Exactly!

OK, Sneaky Pete! I'll stop poking.

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

OK, Sneaky Pete! I'll stop poking.

People view my source code all the time. I don't mind... as long as they don't copy my code of course.

As for SEO, I can't tell you how much misinformation is out there.

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Blackwell

People view my source code all the time. I don't mind... as long as they don't copy my code of course.

As for SEO, I can't tell you how much misinformation is out there.

That's an understatement. Thanks for letting me pick your brain as I know you have achieved high ranking for sales and marketing and provide quality content for those terms (an admirable achievement). I'm not trying to steal your trade secrets, but I thought you might be able to point me in the right direction. I figured you wouldn't mind, as I am not a competitor for you (unless, of course, you suddenly decide to go into the coupon business

)

Off topic a bit, but I'm curious if you have ever experienced this before: I had a flukey day where my site received 20 times the typical traffic. I was flooded with email and coupon requests that day. It was very exciting, but I have no idea what caused it. It must have had something to do with search engines, but it only lasted a day.

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

That's an understatement. Thanks for letting me pick your brain as I know you have achieved high ranking for sales and marketing and provide quality content for those terms (an admirable achievement). I'm not trying to steal your trade secrets, but I thought you might be able to point me in the right direction. I figured you wouldn't mind, as I am not a competitor for you (unless, of course, you suddenly decide to go into the coupon business

)

Believe it or not, I offer free SEO advice to competitors in my industry [real estate] at RealEstateWebmasters.com.

I also offer SEO advice at DigitalPoint.com. If you visit either forum my username is "ResaleBroker."

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Originally Posted by RainMaker

I was flooded with email and coupon requests that day. It was very exciting, but I have no idea what caused it. It must have had something to do with search engines, but it only lasted a day.

Sure, that happens all of the time. I too would attribute a spike like that to a change in search engine placement. It just goes to show you how much traffic can be generated from the Search Engines.

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RainMaker	Re: search engine ranking OK. I've read the entire SEO guy tutorial. (haven't fully digested and implemented, but am at least familiar with his strategies.) I have a couple specific questions for you. 1). What is the significance of the first line of your code on your index page? I did not see any reference to this in the tutorial. I see other high ranking sites have this also. 2). Meta name=keywords...does this mean that your keywords are on an external page that is being referenced as opposed to listing them directly on your page?

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RainMaker	Re: search engine ranking I was curious because I didn't see a list of keywords. For example, this is #2 on Yahoo for the search term "sales": <META NAME = "keywords" CONTENT = "Sale Creators,consultants, marketing, sales, business, retail, sales and marketing consultant, sales consultant, marketing, CONSULTING, SALES,starting a new business, new business, Internet design, Internet marketing, Internet promotion, better web site, maintenance of Internet site, more sales, promotions, sales training, Spokane, Washington, positive sales environment, marketing campaign,.... " It goes on for 10 more lines...

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RainMaker	Re: search engine ranking OK, Sneaky Pete! I'll stop poking.

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