> >> Was just looking arround my stats and looking at what keywords people use
> >> .. then I found out something. On several of the major search engines
> >> that the people are using to find my site I am withing the top 10 .. and
> >> in most searches I am in the number 1 position. Never thought that would
> >> happen before.
> >What are the keywords they are using?
> perl
> script
> archive
> .htaccess
> tutorials
>
> these are the most commonly used keywords .. most the searches are with
> "perl script"
Part of what I do, is assist other people in dealing with search
engines -- finding which phrases and keywords are used by people searching
for things on the web, and how to tailor content so as to get more
relevant hits.
I took a peek at your home page (perl2000) and here is what I find.
First, I ran a quick query on our search engine query database.
Here is a list of queries that were run on various search engines in the
last two weeks for any of the terms "perl script archive cgi cgi-bin
shopping webmaster server":
THIS WEEK
RANK # QUERY TEXT
261: 28: shopping
758: 13: webmaster ch
807: 13: javascript
900: 12: movie scripts
1115: 11: cgi
1344: 9: webserver and software
1572: 8: waiting for server
1592: 8: terraserver
1965: 7: scripts
2020: 7: perl
2048: 7: mp3 archives
2594: 6: mp3 archive
2669: 6: jscripts
3126: 5: the html and javascript online
3519: 5: java scripts
3520: 5: java script
3604
LAST WEEK:
RANK # QUERTY TEXT
370: 97: shopping
507: 78: javascript
1758: 34: java and script
1937: 32: cgi
2785: 24: scripts
2953: 23: perl
2969: 23: mp3 archive
4412: 17: mp3 and archive
5159: 15: online shopping
5184: 15: mp3 and archives
5239: 15: java script
5328: 15: european shopping sites
5434: 15: archives
5554: 14: shopping cart
5608: 14: quake servers
6058: 13: terraserver
6082: 13: sql server
6305: 13: javascripts
-...
Seems you may be missing a number of the plain "scripts", "perl", and
"cgi", as well as "shoppingcart" queries if your most common queries are
"perl script" You could put more emphasis on cgi and scripts (plural) in
your header lines.
Also, inspecting the home page, I see no META KEYWORD tag. It really
does help some engines. Omitting the META DESCRIPTION tag is kind of like
bricking up your store windows...
See http://www.mall-net.com/se_report/ for similar reports. Also,
you might check out http://www.mall-net.com/se_tech/zero.html on how to
get low competition keywords.
> >I have a site which is framed and still not getting any search engine
> >hits. I haven't had time (or money budgeted) to see where search
> >engines are dropping out (as they have hit the site).
If you are not examining your logs, you... well, let us just say that
I examine my logs every day.
> >The site I am tracking is getting hits from this:
> >http://www.infoseek.com/Topic/Home_maintenance?sv=IS&lk=noframes&svx=related
> >I wonder how infoseek rates these sites? Or how they find them?
They have crawlers that follow URL's everywhere. Many engines will
poll other engines for leads now and then, sometimes not very
intelligently! I ran a search engine myself for a while. Will probably do
it again soon.
As to the exact algorithms, I don't know; but in general it seems
that words appearing in the header lines get more rating than words
appearing in the text lines. Some engines pay a lot of attention to meta
tags, and others don't seem to. http://www.searchenginewatch.com has more
information on some of that.
I've tried some of the submission engines, but have found that a lot
of them use submissions as an excuse to spam you with all kinds of stuff.
On another site, a low volume specialty site, I made up special pages
to submit, so that the only links to them would be from the search engines
that accepted then. Instead of a lot of hits on those pages, general site
traffic picked up by about a third. As did spam, mostly on how to "get
better search engine position" for that site.
I kind of have to laugh. Gee, um... Is having the site on page one
as the first, second, or third entry on most engines not good enough?
Heck, we had a new category put in at Yahoo just for that site! And these
guys say they can get me better position than being the ONLY site in that
category??? The "problem" with that site is not that it has bad search
engine position, the problem is that the topic of the site is an uncommon
specialty in the area of religion.
The site owner does not want high traffic; the site owner wants the
right traffic. Judging from the keywords used to find the site, vs the
kinds of queries we find in the search engine reports, the site is getting
the right hits. There just are not that many people interested in that
specific topic.
It is particularly important to get relevant hits if you have chat
pages or order forms, because some people who stumble upon sites not
targeted towards them, may vandalize chat pages and submit junk in the
order forms. This is particularly true in hot topics like religion.
targeting your meta tags, header lines and text with specific phases used
in search engines, helps insure you get more relevant hits than
disappointed mistakes.
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