I don’t know if or how I can do meta-tags on a WYSIWYG template like Website Tonight.
You will need to learn some HTML; or get a freelancer to help. But $1,000 is crazy. More like $50 to just fill in some meta tags.
I’m looking at someone else’s site who offers similar services. He has his own site. He also has a blog on a standard blogging site. All his blog entries link to his site.
If you only made your site just recently, it takes Google a while to index it. So don’t panic if it’s not showing up in your searches just yet - it might take a week or so.
http://guides.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization has some useful advice; you want to make sure there are links to your site in as many different (relevant) places as you can - better still if those links are made up of your keywords, rather than just the URL itself, but the more links leading to your site, the more Google and other search engines think you’re important.
I would also emphasise the advice above not to pay for anyone to magically optimize your site for you. Particularly not to the tune of $1,000.
Would this help get noticed?
As far as header tags, does Google only look at H1 and H2? I’m currently using both plus H3 on a site I’m putting together for a friend of mine.
Is it worth creating a site map if the final web site is only going to contain three or four pages?
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