For SEO, how many times a month should I update my small business website?
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There is no perfect answer.  A rule of thumb is that more frequently updated your website the more it will be appreciated by search engines and your visitors.\n\nSo post news about your business or to your sector, highlight sales and promotions, and even better, start a blog.
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Build inbound links to your website.\nMost of the directories online charge a one time fee to review your site and add it to their index. Here are three of my favorites:\nhttp://www.avivadirectory.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=kahmer\nhttp://www.kahmer.com\nhttp://www.joeant.com\nThe more inbound links to your site, the better you will rank\nwith Yahoo / Google / MSN.
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The best way to do this is to find similar sites to yours (similar key words) and try to get text links from those sites to point to your site.  [Before you do this you must make sure that the key words that you want are set.  DO NOT use a 1 or 2 word key word, you will NOT get good placement anymore.]  This will take several rounds of the engines spidering known sites which can take 6 weeks each -- so don't get frustrated, it'll take a few months.\n\nWhen known sites with decent rankings point to your site, it's an indication to the search engines that your site is important.  When I sell text links on my site to other sites they typically purchase the links for 3 to 6 months (sometimes up to a year).
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update the contents regurally -search engines love sites that are updated; find people that are willing to put link on their sites to your site - the more links you have to your site the higher the se4archability ranking will be; focus on a particular segment . thats what i think
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First, cheat and look for your site by name to ensure it's even "in" the index.  Then, there are programs out there that you can buy that'll "scroll through" those 40+ pages for you and let you know where you're at.  Submission Wizard is one such program, but I know there's many more.
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There are some constants in search engine optimization; some factors that, by necessity, must be considered by all the major engines. These are the factors you need to play around with to make sure you get top ranking in all the search engines: \n\nAge = the older the website, the better. There is this thing called "sandbox" where new websites are not shown until several months later\n\nContent = you need to have content related to a similar theme. The better your content and the more original your content, the more likely other websites will want to link to you and audiences will come back to your site\n\nKeyword density = the overall percentage of your page content that is made up of the targeted keywords. An additional factor in keyword density is the percentage of your keyword content that uses special formatting such as bold, italic, anchor text, etc.\n\nHow it fares in the results = the search engine knows when you have clicked on a result. They also know when you have returned to the results to try another site.\n\nSite structure = The way your site is structured determines how easily a search engine spider can get through it, the priority is gives specific content, and how much code the spider has to weed through to get to your content.\n\nBacklinks = With backlinks, as with websites in general, it's quality that counts. \n\nGeneral timeline of getting your site ranked well \n\n2 - 3 months: MSN rankings secured \n4 - 6 months: Yahoo! rankings improving \n6 - 8 months: Yahoo! rankings secured and Google improving. Many secondary phrases are attained on Google. \n8 - 12 months: Google rankings secured. \n\nI suggest you read the following articles:\n\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm
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Hire me if you need to increase your traffic
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Word of mouth, posters, other mailings.  I have a website of my own I set up and as soon as I sent out a mailing to the group I'm involved with, I got 300+ hits (almost 400 now) since the beginning of the year.  With a member base of only 250, it's still pretty decent, although "past performance does not guarantee future results."\n\nAlso, make sure that your site is laid out nicely for the search engine crawlers so that they can index your pages for you.  People use search engines when they can't remember your web URL, so make sure they can find you on MSN, Yahoo, and Google for starters.
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About once a month, according to their website.
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After 5 years of running my site I am getting and average of 1000 hits per month.\n\nTry free banner exchange, try mentioning your site in your discussion forum, or even in yahoo answers like I did over here. even if your site is listed in Google it will not be displayed on the top. So the site is as if not listed.
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One article that I found very useful is "7 Steps to Successful Web Site Development" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol142/website.htm as it takes to you all the decision steps that you need to take when starting an online business. \n\nLike any other business, startup period is full of "should I do this" or "should I do that" questions. The article is useful because it helps you think through every step of the way - from why do you want a website to who is your audience to how will you create your website to how you will market your new website.\n\nHere are the steps you need to take when creating your online business:\n\nSTEP 1: Set Your Goals - Why do you want a web site? What is the size of the online market? What are the goals for your website?\n\nSTEP 2: Develop Your Web Site Strategy - Who is your website target audience? What typically appeals to your target audience? How are the other websites (your competition) reaching out to this target audience? How will you measure your performance?\n\nSTEP 3: Set-Up Implementation Plans - What name will you give to your site? How do you envision the design of your web site? How will you create your website? How will you create your content? How will you maintain your website?\n\nSTEP 4: Start the Ball Rolling - Do you have a logo? For e-retailers, do you have the critical components needed to run an e-commerce site? How are you going to host your site?\n\nSTEP 5: Create and Launch Your Web Site - Have you uploaded your site with your chosen web host provider? Are the scripts and application you need for your website functioning well? Have you tested your website? \n\nSTEP 6: Promote Your Web Site and Measure Its Results - Do you have a plan in place to market your website? Do you regularly review your traffic logs and web site performance tracker? How are you going to get sites to link to you? Do you know the search engine keywords that you rank well? If your site is not visible in the search engine results pages for its keywords, what strategies do you intend to do? \n\nSTEP 7: Maintain Your Website and Grow Your Web Business - Continue to find ways to grow your web business. How do you intend to continue your education on web development?
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If I understand your question accurately, you want to know how to make sure your small business website is highly visible in Yahoo (and I'd assume Google as well).\n\nOne idea is to give MerchantCircle a shot. MerchantCircle is a small business website that gives you a free web listing, which is automatically indexed by Google and other search engines like Yahoo.\n\nWhat indexing means is that these search engines come and look at your listing and then put it in their engine so when searchers come by, they can find your business. MerchantCircle is optimizing those listings somehow, so the businesses show up more visibly.\n\nEven if you already have a website, you can claim your free web listing on MerchantCircle, and then link to your existing website so they both get a lot of traffic and new customers. \n\nThe cool thing I heard about on MerchantCircle, is that you can get free Google advertising. I think that if you invite other businesses to join, you can get free credits that can be spent on Google advertising. This is in addition to the work they're already doing with the search engines.\n\nCheck it out: http://www.merchantcircle.com
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With search engine algorithms changing every 6-12 months developing a syllabus that was meaningful and current would be extremely difficult to say the least. SEO encompasses many different aspects, including but not limited website design, marketing, conversions, ROI, link development, programming, information architecture and more. At this stage it's hard to come to a consensus what is SEO and what's online marketing.\n\nA great place to start is <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/">Webmaster World</a> or <a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com/">Digital Point</a>. The best book to help you get up to speed is <a href="www.seobook.com/'>SEO Book</a> by Aaron Wall.\n\nThere are a lot of other forums however they aren't as well suited to people with little experience.
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Go to Guru.com or Elance.com and bid for SEO projects.\n\nI also suggest you hang out in forums such as Webmaster World http://www.webmasterworld.com as there are a lot of SEOs out there. That will help you continue to sharpen your SEO skills and find out what others are doing with regards to canonical problems, getting out of Google sandbox, optimizing for Google Big Daddy changes and other issues with search engines
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Sit down with a cup of coffee and the cell phone off and read through this excellent tutorial http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php\n\nSEO is hard work if done properly and do not be tempted into any silly short-cut schemes you may read about on the net.
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there is no set time, all major search engines are constantly combing the net for updated sites, it can take from hours to days.  Best practice is to use search tags that are unique to you (if possible) try not to put your tags within frames in the main page (search engines like plain html on the main page) and if you are desperate for listings consider paying fro them, for a business this could be worthwhile (but remember only certain key words can be listed).  Hope this helps :)
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That's a pretty broad question and hard to answer without details, but I'll try.\n\nOne of the first steps is SEO (search engine optimization). There are tons of SEO companies out there. www.stepforth.com provides this service for my website.\n\nThe quality of your website is useless unless people can find it at the moment they want to. Pay per click advertising is the quickest way to get on the search engines. Again, StepForth provides these services for me. \n\nYou should also consider reciprocal linking. A company called www.domaindrivers.com is doing this for my website.