Tips for search engine
optimization.
Strong site promotion is what builds strong customer sales on the Internet.
Marketing and promoting your site in search engines and directories can
bring more targeted traffic more cheaply than banner exchanges, email
blasts or newsletter ads. But great web site design is only one small
part of an effective marketing strategy.
You can submit your website free and automatically to hundreds of search
engines, directories and indexes ... and find yourself on page 50 or 100
where no one will ever find you! Many attractive sites gets lost in the
millions of other sites on the Web because they are not designed with
the search engine criteria in mind.
For example, using frames or javascript in your site design
can often hinder your high placement in search engines. Text which may
read well in a brochure can result in rankings so low that prospective
clients never find your site. Other factors affecting your ranking include
the page title, your choice of keywords, the position of keywords on the
page, how often the keywords are mentioned, links from other sites to
your page, .......... the list goes on!
There's a lot more to web site promotion and high placement in a search
engines than most people think. That's why we offer experienced advice
on techniques that have been shown to work time and time again.
The Magnificent Seven.
When searching the web there are seven search engines which dominate.
- Google
- AltaVista
- Lycos
- Overture (used to be GoTo)
- Inkomi
- Open Directory Project
- LookSmart
The vast majority information found on the Net is found via one of these
magnificent seven or via Yahoo.
Even after you've submitted your web site, don't expect to see your site
in the listings for a few more weeks. Some engines index the pages immediately,
but they don't enter into the ranking system until later on. Others will
enter them into the ranking system as soon as they are indexed. If you
don't get the result you wanted, don't be tempted to resubmit your pages
again anytime soon. If you submit your pages too frequently, you could
be penalised, even banned from that search engine or directory!
What about Yahoo?
Yahoo deserves its own optimization stratergy, because it is the
most important directory.
So what's the difference between a Search Engine and Directory?
The difference is that a search engine will examine and read all the "important"
words on all of the pages that make up your web site.
A directory, such as Yahoo, only allows you a limited number of words
to describe your whole web site. Yahoo currently allows a 25 word description
and a six word title. Having such a limited number of words means that
you must make every word count when submitting your site to Yahoo.
The other thing to know is that it is almost impossible
to change that 25 word description once is has been submitted to Yahoo.
We know how to score on the big seven!
We know which techniques are currently the most effective to obtain high
ranking in each of the major search engines.
We spend hours every week researching the latest information and tracking
results. We keep up with the latest updates about the different search
engines and what changes each have been made to their search software
and ranking system. We also know which techniques should be avoided and
we can tell you why your web site is not being found!
Your web site can be optimized to score well in the
seven major search engines, and you can increase the
traffic to your web site without having to spend large sums on banner
advertising. If you need to increase the traffic to your web site, contact
us for expert advice and consultancy and join the growing list of
past customers who we have helped make a success of their web sites.