New reply needed for general help

From: captainart (captainart_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:35:05 -0800

Could someone look at my original question, Jon's reply and possibly give
answers to my new questions below

Jon, your reply was helpful, but as I said I am a real novice
(computer/web/Front Page) If it is not too much to ask could you give me a
little more detail on the following:

You spoke about headings & gave an example. Where do they go? How many
headings can you have on a page? Are they exactly like you typed? <h1>Lake
Erie Walleye Charter fishing</h1>, for example

What are CSS tags and how do you apply them?

What do you mean by making the links absolute & how do you go about it?

How do you make an alt tag & where does it go?

And finally......You told me to have our link as <a
href="http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com">Fishing On Lake Erie</a>, exactly like
this with a space between the a and href?

More detail explanation would be greatly appreciated.

Art

"Jon Spivey" wrote:

> Hi,
> I'd probably focus on the first domain. It's true that getting keywords in
> your domain can give you a slight advantage in Google but it's less
> important than content and incoming links. The new domain to my mind is too
> long for people to remember let alone give to each other eg over the phone
> etc
>
> There's more effective things you can do to get your site ranked well - I'm
> assuming "Fishing on Lake Erie" would be the main phrase you want to target
> 1/ Get your keywords in the title, H1, H2 tags and well sprinkled throughout
> your home page body text. So for example you have this text at the top of
> your page
> <p align="center"><i><font face="Arial Black" color="#FF0000">Enjoy Lake
> Erie
> walleye charter fishing with Captain Art Miller and</font></i></p>
> This should be a heading
> <h1>Lake Erie walleye charter fishing</h1>
> Search engines place greater emphasis on text in heading tags than <p> tags.
> Using CSS rather than font tags will also help you
> 2/ Make all the links in your navigation absolute eg
> http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com/page.htm rather than page.htm this is a
> little trick to make google think you have incoming links to your site.
> 3/ Link that picture of a boat to http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com and make
> the alt tag "Fishing On Lake Erie"
> 4/ Get some more links to your site - basically set up a links page on your
> site and email every site you can find that has anything to do with fishing
> boats tourism or lake erie and ask to exchange links. Make sure they link to
> you as Fishing On Lake Erie
>
> As it stands you already have a Page rank of 4 which is a very good start.
> The steps above should boost your PR nicely and get you ranked higher.
>
> I'd just leave the new domain pointing to your site as you have it.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Jon
> Microsoft MVP
>
>
> "captainart" <captainart@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B5F8F987-8B96-4A45-B010-E4DB24FB5C12@microsoft.com...
> >I am a novice with a very small fishing website. It is currently listed in
> > the google directory and I am in the process of changes to make it search
> > engine friendly (I hope) It is http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com ; I bought
> > another domain name so it has keywords within the name. It is
> > http://Lake-Erie-Walleye-Charter-Fishing.com. ; The new domain is currently
> > aliased to the old old one. What I am wondering is what do I do now. I
> > have
> > some people tell me to leave it alone, others say to add a re-direct. I
> > do
> > not want to loose the links I have now or the listing in the google
> > directory
> > but I do want to use the new url and resubmit to the engines when I have
> > the
> > content done. If a re-direct is the answer how do I go about it?
> >
> > Art
>
>
>

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