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How to get your website to come up in google search results..
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Getting noticed on the search engines is an ongoing chore, some of the reply posts have been excellent with some great links for information, there are some good free online tools to find out how your website is performing one of the better ones is free online link popularity checker, which checks where you site is seen in some of the major search engines.
Theres other tools also to check page rank of a site as well as the amount of links to and from a site, all of which can be useful is working out how visible your website is.Its a jungle out there...0 -
Have you thought about Googles Adwords, yes you have to pay, but you can set your daily budget to £1 or £2 and set your CPC to something like 20p and you only get charged when people click on your link. Your site comes up in the sponsored links on the right hand side of a google search results page based on keywords you set within the adwords control panel.
www.adwords.google.com
To repeat what other people have said get listed on as many search engines, business directories etc. Also make sure your Index page title contains a few of your most important keywords, so long as the title still makes sense. Pay attention to your meta tags they do help, in particular Keywords and description.
This should be somewhere between <head> and </head> section of the HTML for your index page.
Example:
<head>
<title>[your page title]</title>
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="[your site description would go in here, but keep brief and to the point]">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="[your keywords go in here separated by commas.Try to limit them to about 25]">
</head>
Above all be patient it can take a long time to get listed on google or other sites, but if your site is listed on other sites then it is more likely to be picked up by Googles crawler.0 -
Sorry, but this isn't quite right. Meta tags don't determine rankings in Google.
I'm sorry but I disagree. They're not the only thing that determines where your site will appear on google for your keyword but it's part of the things that help. Brad Callen has an excellent book on SEO ranking...his company have the top few spots out of 12 million on seo software.0 -
I'm afraid I have to disagree, in turn. Meta tags do not affect ranking, and haven't done since about 1998.I'm sorry but I disagree. They're not the only thing that determines where your site will appear on google for your keyword but it's part of the things that help. Brad Callen has an excellent book on SEO ranking...his company have the top few spots out of 12 million on seo software.0 -
Meta tags help with other search engines that do take notice of them and this in turn helps you get listed, in getting listed on engines other than google your position on google may improve as one of googles criteria for higher ranking is links to your site from other sites. At the end of the day the more links you have to your site spread all over the net the more it can help you. But lets face it not everyone can be at the no.1 spot in search results, so don't tear your hair out trying.0
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I agree and although they might not bring much traffic there are other search engines as well as Google.Meta tags help with other search engines that do take notice of them and this in turn helps you get listed
Although meta tags might have little or no effect on Google, the description tag is sometimes used in the search listings so it is of value there. Google Webmaster Tools alert you about pages with short meta tag descriptions which implies that they are looked at and used by Google. Just don't rely on them for your SEO!0 -
i assume you have submitted you site to google here?
http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?hl=en&continue=/addurl0 -
sidthesexist wrote: »i assume you have submitted you site to google here?
http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?hl=en&continue=/addurl
Just to point out you do not have to submit your site to google. If you follow the tips in this thread and also the many many tutorials around the web, google will find you very quickly if your website is any good.0
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