Submitting you website to search engines and directories is only a small part of the whole site optimization process. The longest, but most effective way of improving website ranking in search engines, is through link building. The more websites link to your page (and the more important they are), the higher the PageRank (although PageRank equation is much more complex than that).
Looking for websites in the domain as yours is the most challenging task. When you find one, you should contact the webmaster to propose a link exchange. Below are examples of ways to find websites related to your page.
How to find related website for link building?
Friday, March 28, 2008
Link building for better ranking
Friday, March 07, 2008
10 advices for better ranking on search engines
Below, you will find a short list of 10 advices for better ranking on search engines. Of course, each search engine is different, but these tips may work for most important search engines:
- Good content: certainly the most important thing for your website being successful on the web is its content. Good content is the basis of a good ranking on search engines.
- 100 first words: the first (100) words on your website are more important than others for a better ranking. If possible use several keywords representing your website in the first few sentences.
- Which keywords: when selecting the appropriate keywords, think of kind of keywords people could use to find your website on a search engine.
- Importance of URL: when choosing your URL on a free website creation service or when buying a domain name (.com, .org, .net) you should consider a name containing important keywords concerning your website. When concatenating several words, use a "-" between them.
- Link building: although manual and sometimes boring, link building is the best way to get visibility on the web. This is a never ending task that you have to do as often as possible.
- Don't cheat: if you try to put keywords not matching your content or put several keywords in the text with the same color as your background, etc... Shortly, if you're cheating, there is a good chance that your website will go down in search results.
- Survey your competitors: look at your competitor websites to see how they optimize it. It may give you an idea about a keyword for example. You can find this information simply by looking at the page source on any browser.
- Keep updating: continue updating your website optimization process even after you achieved your objectives.
- Keep up-to-date: always follow what's going on in the search engine community. You can find relevant link to search engine news on this blog.
- Keep hope: even if you are not seeing improvement within a few weeks, keep hope and go on working on the optimization of your website. It may take some time...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Link building for better ranking
Submitting you website to search engines and directories is only a small part of the whole site optimization process. The longest, but most effective way of improving website ranking in search engines, is through link building. The more websites link to your page, the higher the PageRank (although PageRank equation is much more complex than that).
Looking for websites in the domain as yours is the most challenging task. When you find one, you should contact the webmaster to propose a link exchange. Below are examples of ways to find websites related to your page.
How to find related websites for link building?
Here are two solutions:
Hope this helps!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
How to improve your Alexa rank
Alexa rank provides information about the traffic level of your website. To view Alexa rank you must first install the Alexa toolbar:
Alexa toolbar for FireFox
Alexa toolbar for Internet Explorer
Once this is done, you can see the Alexa rank of your site. The smaller the number, the more traffic you have. Of course this indicator is biased since it only takes into account visitors that have the Alexa toolbar installed. However, the Alexa rank is often used in blog networks and for website advertising. Below is a list of actions to perform in order to increase your Alexa rank:
More details can be found on doshdosh website.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Directories for website listing
One of the most important aspect of website optimization for better ranking is inbound links (links that direct to your site). Adding your page to different websites and blogs by manual contact increase the number of inbound links. Another way is to subscribe to web directories.
Below is a list of directories you should consider for better ranking on search engines:
Major directories
Other directories
