Hi Rick, >From Google: http://www.google.com/technology/
A couple of useful commands in a Google search: index:www.mysite.com Shows which pages Google has indexed, if any, and is a way to see indicate whether a site may have been banned. links:www.mysite.com Shows how many back links you have. Take a look at the page your link sits on. If it has a low page rank the link is actually hurting your rankings, not helping. (These commands also work on MSN and Yahoo.) A useful way to see if you have bad links is an undocumented search command on Yahoo: linkdomain:mydomain.com This will show you all Yahoo back links to any page in your site. A useful way of finding out if you have links on good pages. Also, download the Google tool bar http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/options/ Google Tools: Toolbar This will show you the page rank on the page you are currently browsing. Don't even bother posting your link to a page if you see it has a PR below 3. Be very careful about following dodgey techniques that may get you a quick ranking until Google sees the cheat and may even bar the site completely. It can take months to get a site listed once it has been barred. Don't over do keyword useage hoping to score points. Get the keywords into key positions, but don't drown your page in them. High scoring positions for keywords are <title> <h1-h6> <b> <i> <ul> <ol>. first and last words read be the SE on your page. To see how the SE sees your page a useful tool is http://www.goodkeywords.com/ which is also pretty good for keyword research. Keyword density is key. No more than 8 words in your page title, no more than 248 characters in your meta (or some search engines will reject your submission altogether). A pretty good piece of software to research and see how you are doing in rankings and back links is www.webceo.com (there is even a free version). SEO isn't everything. It is possible to spend huge amounts of time on SEO (and money) and get nowhere (in highly competitive markets) for a very long time and it may be as well to spend on Google Adwords to gain traffic either while you are waiting for SEO positioning, or even ditching SEO completely. First and foremost to get a good ranking is to have a site with good unique content that is easily navigable and easy to read. If you need any more pointers, or even my SEO consultancy, please drop me an email off list. Hope this helps, and good luck! Jenny >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: 21 February 2006 04:54 >>To: CF-Talk >>Subject: OT: Google indexing >> >> >>Okay... do a google search for "bob guiney" >> >>http://www.google.com/search?q=bob+guiney >> >>His site (which I built) is the first link.. which is good. And google >>also lists direct links to a couple of subpages.. BGB Imagery, Bob >>Guiney's Online Diary, Music, etc. >> >>How does google decide what to put up there? Click popularity? Of >>course they can't tell when you click on something, so maybe link >>popularity? >> >>Anyway, I didn't notice that google was doing this until just now when >>Bob asked me if we c ould axe the diary link from google. My initial >>idea is to just use a robots.txt file to prevent the diary from even >>being indexed.. clearly that would solve the problem, but is it the best >>solution? >> >>(vent: why doesn't Mozilla Thunderbird's built in spell checker know >>how to spell "Mozilla" and "Thunderbird"?) >> >>Rick >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233051 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
