Archive for January, 2010

hi, i want my company website to be listed on the top 5 of the search engine..
A company has said it will do it for me but can anyone tel me how they do it??

If your site is for your ‘business’ then you should submit it to Google Local Business: this can help you can gain top search results in Google for your business products or services using the Local Business service from Google. You will need to register for a googlemail account then submit your website / business details to Google’s local business centre.

http://www.google.com/local/add

Marketing your Website using Directories and Website Links

The next step is to get links to your website. This is one of the most important things that you can do to help your website with regard to internet marketing and search engine results. To do this you will need to list your website on as many websites and directories as possible. Directories operate in one of 3 ways: Paid Listing Directory, Free and Reciprocal Link Directories.

Paid Listing Directory: for a listing fee your website is listed, often these are higher quality directories as only serious website owners and business’s will pay to be listed. These are usually the fastest way to get listed and get links to your website, as the paid listing directories are run as a business. There are niche/specialist and general directories.

Free Directories: it can take a long time to get your website listed. As the service is free, there may be little or no control of the quality of websites being listed.

Reciprocal Link Directories: these again can take time before your website is listed and your website will only be listed after you provide a link to them.

Website owners wishing to promote their new website in the search engines are often in a hurry to ‘get results’ so the listing service offered by Paid Listing Directories is the fastest way to get links to your website.

1. You should try and get as many links to your websites as possible (add your website to directories)
2. Try to get keyword links, these are links that use ‘content relevant keywords’ as the anchor text.

Good Luck

There is no legitimate ‘white hat’ SEO company that can guarantee search engine ranking in an extremely short period of time (unless they are in bed with Google, and if someone knows one, let me know) If a an SEO company does guarantee results in 72 hours, how is that perceived by the business owner who is their client?
Is it perceived as ‘Cheap Services’ - not justifying the cost of the service, or unethical practices, or simple enough to do on their own?

My perception?

- they don’t know what they’re talking about
- they don’t understand white hat SEO
- they’re overpromising something they can’t deliver
- avoid them like a plaque as their tactics could eventually harm my website

Basically, run as fast as you can away from them.

But then, many people fall for them. And they’ll deliver some keywords showing that the website got top 10 rankings — except that the website has already been ranking for those keywords or they’ll deliver some obscure keywords.

Sometimes it seems as if some of the results from searches are bringing back irrelevant information pertaining to the search, or the search engine seems to be slower than usual, especially with Yahoo, Google, and MSN. Is it just me, or are other people having this problem, too?

What other search engines on the internet do you use?

well i think you are correct. Google had a major hack in china, so that could be the reason why. I also use verizon’s search engine, ask.com, etc. You could google it XD

I have a roofing business that serves the Bay Area of California and I want to submit my website to search engines. How do I make it so that I show up at or near the top of the ranks when people search "roofs", "bay area roofs", etc.?

I would suggest a 2 part process.

Step 1, would be to look at your website to ensure that you have implemented basic SEO
Step 2 would be to submit your website to google local business and to directories.

Take a look at your website to ensure that you have implemented SEO (search engine optimisation)

Good SEO should help people or search engines find your information

So if you build a website that is about ‘roofs’, you should ensure that the web pages are optimised for the content displayed and information offered. This includes using "key words" (keywords) for the product.

Some of the basic steps and considerations for SEO would be the following:

1) Using relevant keywords within the website / page content, the content of the website pages is the top priority for SEO, your website pages should provide good information about the product / service or subject.

2) The website name, or domain name, it can help people or search engines find your information if your domain name includes the product / subject / keywords

3) The page names, you may have lots of information about that requires separate pages, using keywords for the page / file name is good practice,

4) Meta tags, these are parts of the html code that are used by Search engines to help identify the content of the webpage. The html code of the page is not visible to the user unless you select view page source within the browser. You can to add important information about the webpage and products on the webpage to the meta tags, this is where you can add keywords about the products on the webpage.

Important html tags include:

<title>This page is about keywords</title>

<meta name="description" content="This is where you have a short sentence that describes the content of the web page and includes keywords" />

<meta name="keywords" content="add keywords here separated by commas,keyword1,keyword2,keyword3" />

5) Images, you can use relevant keywords for image file names on your webpage. You can also add ‘alternate text’ to the image within the html code, this is designed to help users that may have impaired vision and use computer software called ’screen readers’ which is an audio tool that provides audio description of what is on the screen.

alt tex html tag: alt="This text describes the content / picture on the image and will be read by screen reader and search engines"

Basic Steps to Follow to help improve search engine listings for your website

If your site is for your ‘business’ then you should submit it to Google Local Business: this can help you can gain top search results in Google for your business products or services using the Local Business service from Google. You will need to register for a googlemail account then submit your website / business details to Google’s local business centre.

http://www.google.com/local/add

Marketing your Website using Directories and Website Links

The next step is to get links to your website. This is one of the most important things that you can do to help your website with regard to internet marketing and search engine results. To do this you will need to list your website on as many websites and directories as possible. Directories operate in one of 3 ways: Paid Listing Directory, Free and Reciprocal Link Directories.

Paid Listing Directory: for a listing fee your website is listed, often these are higher quality directories as only serious website owners and business’s will pay to be listed. These are usually the fastest way to get listed and get links to your website, as the paid listing directories are run as a business. There are niche/specialist and general directories.

Free Directories: it can take a long time to get your website listed. As the service is free, there may be little or no control of the quality of websites being listed.

Reciprocal Link Directories: these again can take time before your website is listed and your website will only be listed after you provide a link to them.

Website owners wishing to promote their new website in the search engines are often in a hurry to ‘get results’ so the listing service offered by Paid Listing Directories is the fastest way to get links to your website.

1. You should try and get as many links to your websites as possible (add your website to directories)
2. Try to get keyword links, these are links that use ‘content relevant keywords’ as the anchor text.

Good Luck

Please send Hyperlinks.

You don’t need a TOP registar for generating traffic to your site, but if you weave key words into the content of your website that people are actaully using when going to big engines like Google and Yahoo….your pages will in the top 20 or 30 search lsitings.

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I want to get my website on the first page of google and maybe on other search engines as well. Anyone care to show me the way?

It can be done but it’ll take more than a simple answer, you need specific training.
If you’re asking because you have a brick and mortar business then check to see if Gil Corner is doing one of his free webinars sometime soon (http://www.gilscorner.com/webinar). It’s a complete training with actionable steps (and it doesn’t cost anything so that’s a plus).
For any other virtual business that’s online, you’ll need a different tutorial.
Basically you want to do keyword research to find out what are the search terms you want to get ranked for. You can use google’s keyword research tool and microsoft’s online commercial intent tool to find that out and make sure those are buying keywords. Just do a search for these tools and you’ll find them.
Then I suggest you download a free tool called traffic travis that will tell you what needs to be done to your website to have it be more search engine friendly. I believe the site’s at http://www.traffictravis.com

Once you’ve done all that, you need to constantly get backlinks to your site (links from another site to your own WITHOUT you linking back). Search for angela’s backlinks and you’ll find a very cheap way to do that.

There’s a lot more to it but those are the steps that make all the difference.

I read an article this week and then heard mention of something on the news as well. One of the most popular search engines has been criticized for censoring and not giving people certain answers, particularly when it comes to political questions and things of that nature.

What search engine to you use more frequently?
Do you ever experiment and seek information using other search engines? Is so, what the the ones you use more regularly?
Note that I put this in politics and the accusations were with regard to political searches.

Sweetie, the censoring has been happening for a while.
When I really got involved in this forum during the 2008 elections, I would find an incriminating article or video about His Majesty, bookmark it, and it would be gone in a matter of days, if not hours.
My answers have been deleted with regards to Internet Czar, nothing outside of the Terms….
I don’t know if it’s any particular search engines, although granted Google is literally in bed with the current administration, and they probably all have a vested interest ($$$) in "net neutrality."
Disgusting. But what I noticed were actual newspaper articles, from the Chicago Trib, for example, that went missing.

Please tell me how to be in first few pages of google search engine?

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user - is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Good luck!

P.S. Here’s a search query which brings up some 17.6 million search results. And the no. 1 PR is a website using the above techniques. The query is [with removal of the quotes and spelling out Los Angeles; not L.A. which means Louisiana]: "sandwiches downtown los angeles."

How important is it to put a BLOG on the top level of a DOMAIN in terms of search engine Optimization?

I’m guessing that you are asking whether your blog should be installed in the domain’s root directory (and have the blog’s home page be the same as the site’s home page) or if the blog should be installed in a subdirectory or subdomain (and have a link to the blog from the domain’s homepage–or from elsewhere on the site)

As far as SEO goes, it doesn’t really matter much whether the site is in the root directory or a subdirectory. Installing it in a subdomain is a different matter, though. At Metapilot, we tell clients that as long as you have links pointing to the blog from other areas of the domain (and from other domains of value), the blog will most likely get crawled and indexed by search engines. If your blog posts are well focused on keywords and phrases, the posts can show up in at the top of the search results, provided the posts have enough links pointing at them from other web pages of quality.

There are plenty of examples of sites with blogs installed in the root directory and in subirectories, as well as in subdomains. If the whole reason for having the domain is to have a blog on it, then you have every reason install it in the root directory. If the blog is not to be the main focus of the domain but the blog’s content is relevant to the main focus of the site but the information on it will be complementary to the rest of the site, why not install the blog in a subdirectory.

If the blog covers an entirely different topic than the primary purpose of the domain, install your blog on a subdomain. The search engines will treat the subdomain as an entirely different domain and though, from an SEO standpoint, it won’t directly benefit from the authority and popularity of your top level domain, its presence won’t confuse your visitors, either.