Posts Tagged ‘search engines’
Finally google has been doing some gardening and has cut out most of the weed. About time!
Now, not to worry, big G didn’t devaluated the directories all together. Google simply have some more and better algorithms in place to determine whether or not the directory owners are taking it seriously.
In other words; most directories are still there, it just the crap-, the fake- and the spam-directories that have been filtered out and lost all their pages from the google index and of course their PR just as well. No real loss …
Still, it’s a good opportunity to upgrade the way we process your directory submissions just as well. The best way to do so is to use more different descriptions. So from now on we’ll use 5 totally different-unique descriptions, instead of 3 more or less different descriptions.
For our most popular package; the 250 homepage + 5×50 deep-link = 500 manual directory submissions package, this means that we’ll prepare 30 totally different-unique descriptions.
Especially for the deep-links it makes a significant difference; we combine 5 different titles and 5 different descriptions, which gives 25 variations. So, each deep-link you get will be much more unique. This does gives more link-love!
We could do even more, but writing these descriptions takes times of course, and all those variations also slows down the submission process, so we already have to raise the prices. Still, I’m only doing this as I believe that the results will be much higher than the price increase, so you do get more bang for your buck.
250 homepage + 5×50 deep-links = 500 directory submissions :: $150
30 titles and 30 unique descriptions!!
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To start with, you need to let search engines come across your website. Search engines use a computer program called Spiders to find new websites. As soon as spiders find your website, they will put it in their databases. However, for brand new websites, it is hard to get found by search engines.
What a lot of webmasters do is to submit their sites to Google and Yahoo by hand, but there really is no need to do that. Here are 5 ideas to get your website indexed by search engines fast:
- Include a sitemap.xml file in your root directory. This xml file is like a list of the URLs of all pages of your website. This will help the spiders of the search engines with crawling your website. Once you have uploaded it to your root directory, you should set up an account at Google Webmaster Tools. Here you can submit the sitemap.
- There are a few barricades that prevents spiders from reading the content of your site. Get rid of them. If your website is coded in flash or frames, it is hard for spiders to crawl your website. The spiders prefer languages as HTML or PHP. If spiders cannot crawl your website, they won’t be able to index it either and it will not appear in the SERPs
- Submit your site to social bookmarking platforms. A good way to get your website detected by search engines is to let them naturally find it. A way to let this happen is to submit your site to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, and Del.icio.us. Spiders generally visit these sites several times per day. If your site is listed on one or more of the bookmarking sites, chances are high that it will be found and indexed.
- Get a link pointing to your site from a website with high PageRank (PR). Getting a high PR backlink to your site certainly helps successful indexing and it is also possible to get good organic rankings on search engines. Directory submissions are one of my preferred ways to get links pointing to a website. Chose directories with high PR and submit your website to them. Some of the popular directories such as Yahoo need payment before you get included, which could be well worth the money.
- Write articles and submit to popular article directories. Article marketing is a popular way to get your site noticed by search engines, and it can also attract some traffic to your website. Write an interesting article and include a link in it pointing to your website. Then submit it to popular article directories as WebRaydian and ArticleCube. Spiders are known to visit article directories frequently and once they crawl your article, they will follow the link in it and find your website.
Getting your site crawled by search engine spiders is undeniably a necessity in order to have good rankings in the SERPs. Try some or all of the ideas above and get your site indexed quickly.
Posted in manual submissions, search engine optimization | 
Tags: indexing, search engines, spiders | No Comments »
In order to get the best rankings in the search engines, you need to understand how they work. Regrettably, the answer is complex, and actually secret as well. It all has to do with SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization. In fact, very few SEO experts, SEO consultants, SEO software and SEO companies can actually give you a perfect SEO explanation, simply because nobody knows the exact truth.
We do know the basics of how search engines work, for more detailed information, you can read on at other blog posts or contact an SEO expert offering SEO services.
Here is what happens in short:
- The search engines visit your website every now and then, and store information on your site in a database.
- Then they compare different factors of your site to the factors of other websites in their database.
- The search engines then rank the websites for each keyword searched, according to different parameters set, with the best website on top.
If you have a website or blog, you probably want to get it to the top search engine rankings, because that will bring in a lot of visitors. With a little bit of money you can hire an SEO consultant to help you with it. Some SEO companies also have simple packages of SEO that you can buy.
You can also do some basic SEO by yourself. This way you can save some money, but you will have to spend quite a lot of time. SEO is a time consuming job, not only applying of SEO techniques is time consuming, it does also take time before you can see results of your efforts. Even an SEO expert will need at least a couple of months to improve rankings of a website.
For DIY-ers, your first step would have to be reading more about the topic – reading about meta tags, keyword research, link building, and organic SEO. Inform yourself on free SEO tools and services and SEO software. This blog is a good place to start with.
Posted in search engine optimization |
Tags: rankings, search engine optimization, search engines, seo | 1 Comment »
