110% inexperienced newbie-Please help ;-)

I fully share your views on wagering requirements and newbies – it’s a diaster of huge dimensions. Wagering requirements is not a common search term. So, include that word in your site a whole lot.

There is really no way anyone could explain SEO to you in a post. Your site should have light weight pages and repeat your keyword a lot. Then go to the search engine and type in your key words – like wagering requirement or wr or whatever.

Google takes time to find you – you should be able to see in your logs how often you get spidered. Enter your site by hand in all the engines you can.

UKplayersguide,

Welcome to the boards!!!!

Let me see if I can help you through some of the SEO fog.

First off, when you design a page, you need to find out what the person is going to type into the search box to find you. This is called your keyword phrase. This keyword phrase is sprinkled all over your page. By looking at your page I’m guessing that the keyword phrase you’ve optimized for is UK Players Guide. If I’m wrong let me know.

I took the term UK Players Guide and plugged it into Wordtracker and found out that no searches have been done for that keyword phrase. Meaning no one is searching for your keyword phrase!

Wordtracker is a tool you’ll want to become very famliar with. It’s a database that tracks how many times a keyword phrase has been searched. It also shows other keyword alternatives. If you want traffic, you have to optimize your pages for keyword phrases that people search for!! Be careful not to choose a keyword phrase that is too generic. There will be too much competition for you and you won’t get ranked high.

I did a search on wordtracker for the term UK Casinos and found out the following:
Keyword Count Predict
best casinos online uk 22 21
uk best casinos online 22 21
uk online casinos 22 21
list of online casinos uk 21 20
online casinos uk 20 19
top casinos on the internet uk 18 17
uk list of online casinos 18 17
uk top casinos on the internet 18 17
uk casinos 15 14
fun casinos in uk 3 3
fun casinos uk 3 3
hampshire casinos uk 2 2
online casinos in the uk 2 2

Count is the number of times that keyword phrase appeared in the Wordtracker Database.

Predict- This is the maximum total predicted traffic for all of the major search engines/pay per bids and directories today.

With regard to Google, Google determines page ranking by using a sophicasted forumla. This formula isn’t published for obvious reasons but people have somewhat figured somethings out.

There are 2 ways you need to optimize your page

1-On the page rankings- These are things that need to be done on the page Such as using title and heading tags.

2- Off the page rankings- Getting people to link to you!

Google cares more about what other people think of you than of what you think of yourself!!

My site is registerd with google (about a month ago),

BTW, your site wasn’t registed with google, the google spider found your site and indexed it.

Google takes time to find you – you should be able to see in your logs how often you get spidered.

Excellent tip Dominque!!!! When looking at your logs search for the word googlebot

Enter your site by hand in all the engines you can.

Dominque, I respectfully disagree with you on this. There are only about 6 major search engines out there. All of which use a spider. So eventually his site will be found by the rest of them. These 6 SEs provide the results to all the others. If you were referring to PPC (Pay Per Click_ search engines), then I’d agree with you.

I hope I haven’t thrown too much at you. If you want to learn more about SEO and internet marketing in general. I would go to SelfStartersWeeklyTips Lynn Terry runs this site and I can’t speak highly enough of her!!! She is the best and everyone there helps each other out! I think you could get a ton of questions answered, while learning a ton at the same time.

I hope this helps!!

Scott

You got some great start info there.

I have to agree/disagree with Scott on some of this:

Eventually is not good enough as you want to be found ASAP. Results vary considerably in listing priority between the search engines and once you have been listed you have to do some manual searching for the keyword phrases you were hoping to list for.

My experiments prove to me sites can be listed very quickly with little actual content if cross linked from as little as 2 regularly spidered sites that already have listings if not actual PR in Google.

My personal belief is you do not have to have a huge network of links and I have formed this opinion via experimentation. Experiment!