Can anyone tell me more about website recognition on search engines?

Question

I have a website and I am wondering if anyone can tell me the easiest way to alter the code or add keywords to gain high recognition on search engines? I do not maintain the actual website, but I do own the rights to it. I would like my site to be listed in a higher ranking. Should I go with a contracted service or is this something I could do on my own? Has anyone ever done this successfully? Please only serious replies. Thank you.

Answer 1

It would really depend on how much access you have to the website. To add keywords, content, descriptions, change titles, etc., you'd need access to the code of each webpage and you'll have to alter the code in an editor, such as Microsoft Frontpage, or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Adding keywords and other meta tags to each page is pretty easy and can be done with a minimal time investment.

However, just adding keywords isn't going to dramatically improve your search engine results. For that, you'll need to start getting links into and out of your site.

Reciprocal links are links that you exchange with a site, meaning you link to a site and they link to you. These can help you, but reciprocal links are being discounted by Google and other search engines in favor of one way links.

One way links are definitely preferable to reciprocals. Outgoing links where you link to another site are good, because the search engines can guage more of what your site is about by analying the links you have that point to other sites. But be careful about just dumping a bunch of links into a "Links" page with no content or context for the outgoing links. Build meaningful content around your links, and they will be more important.

Another point about outgoing links is that you shouldn't worry about "If someone clicks on a link, they'll leave my site." This is not something to worry about. You can have links open in new pages, for one. But mainly, if someone is going to leave your site, they'll do it with or without a link on your page. At least a link on your page may allow the visitor to return later, rather than them Xing out of their browser.

Incoming one way links are also important, but the same principles apply. Don't pay for 100's or 1,000's of incoming links from "link farms," or sites that just post links. You may want to submit your site to any number of free or paid directories that let you include content about your site, and place your site among hundreds of other relevant sites.

There are tons of ways to make your site more visible. Just focus on contributing to the web in meaningful ways. Blogs, forum posts, article submission sites, press release sites, etc., etc., etc. will all help.

Plus, hopefully you haven't overlooked the basic fundamentals, I hope: submitting to the major directories and search engines, like Google, Yahoo!, the Open Directory Project, etc.

We've done this before and have doubled our visibility in a few weeks, and continue to contribute to the web in ways we feel are meaningful. It takes some time in the beginning to get going, but the maintenance once you are set up is minimal and interesting. You have the chance to learn and grow by your contributions.

Good luck, have fun,

ForeclosureFish
http://www.foreclosurefish.com

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Website Recognition

Answer 4

Hi,

This stuff is about SEO. Yes, you need to know more about web marketing and SEO. If you would like to do this on your own, at least you need someone who is very knowledgeable on this field. Try hiring a specialist and tutor at the same time. That would be the best option you got if you are trying to really uplift your website to SEs pages.

However, I would also like to stress that you should be careful in choosing an expert. SEO is very tricky and most of the time, too, many use "black hat" (unlawful) SEO. See to it that everything is done legally so your site won't end up being blacklisted.


Mary
http://onlinepr.gbwatch.com/

Answer 5

Whenever you move a site, it will not be recognised unless it has the same domain name. It takes time for the web crawlers to go through it and determine its' relative usefulness and interest. Only if it meets the crawler specification of such a site will it appear early. The actual hosting site does not have anything to do with it, it is the domain name.

Answer 6

Serious Questions Only

Why would we consider someone who has a cutesy avatar and silly name that has no contact allowed, no profile information and no 360 page as someone who is serious?

Answer 7

Is your site W3C compliant? If you can answer that question then maybe you can do it yourself.