newbie_domain

Hi all, im new to website design. I've just brought a domain name www.doakwolf.com I want to rank well in the search engines, just wondering what other people have tried? paid services? free ones? link trading?

I have read a little on other websites.

I have brought a domain at www.cheapdomainseller.com and hosting. They have a traffic product on there, would this be recommended or go else where?

Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreicated.

0xide

Make sure ur site is xhtml and css aproved... it also helps if you have alot of hits etc...

newbie_domain

I've actually tried googling a bit to find out what this xhtml and css approved is, and haven't had much luck do you have any good website about this?

I got a PM from tolkein, http://www.namepros.com/for-sale-advertising-board/129913-my-2-month-old-site-sold.html

I'm posting here just in case it helps others. No info on the css and xhtml stuff found yet.

slaydragon

have many inbound linkd to your site...making youe site ranked better in google.ccom

dna

I assume Oxide means this for CSS approval:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

Or this for XHTML approval:

http://validator.w3.org/

I don't believe these approvals matter to the search engines.

I suggest that you find your catagory in DMOZ and submit
your website for inclusion in the DMOZ directory. DMOZ
selects websites based on quality, not popularity. A few weeks
after you are in the DMOZ directory, Google will list you in their
DMOZ equivalent directory, at the bottom. As your site moves
up in popularity, you move up in the Google directory, and
eventually the Google search engine should bring you visitors.
I had to wait 6 months.

MSN and Yahoo search engines should be sending you visitors
soon after your submission to DMOZ. But you need
to select a title for your webpage that is an overture search
term. But don't select a search term that is too popular or
you will be competing with too many websites. I suggest
that you choose a title for each of your web pages with
an overture of around 1000.