Getting To The Top - A Search Engine Overview

19 Sep, 2007 10:32:00

The Ups and Downs of Search Engines

Isn't it amazing that so many of the nicest looking and informative Web sites in the world are buried so deep in the results pages of the top Search Engines. Maybe you have not noticed this because you, like others and myself, rarely go past the first or second page of results.

No matter how popular you think your site is, it's vital that you and your team put some thought and energy into optimizing your search engine rankings and your visibility within search results. Most search engine users will select the first promising link on the number one page of search results. You look at the target search results page, examine who ranks and figure out why they do, and take a look at the web materials you have to work with yourself. What information you place in these areas has a huge impact on how a page is indexed and, to a certain degree, what will appear in the SE results page. "Keyword Suggestion tools help to identify the current trends of keywords / key phrases, most of the tool shows predicted results based on their databases.

A search engine's organic results sometimes called the natural results are produced using mathematical principles which score the importance and relevance of each website for a particular search term, awarding the high ranking positions to the websites which achieve the highest aggregate scores. A web site with the top search engine ranking for a popular search term will typically generate between 100 and 1000 times the traffic volume of a website ranking on the third page of the SE results.

When Are Reciprocal Links OK?
There is no doubt that one way links are the best for increasing link popularity of a site but the budget for this needs to be the be high therefore another way which if done with care can also yield results is reciprocal link building of the site.
One of the best ways to do this is by placing your links on highly trafficked and spidered sites, online forums matching your site's content, social networks such as MySpace, YouTube, Squidoo and in Blogs that are allowing bots to follow the comments.

.Interestingly enough, if your site is well written, provides tons of useful information and is constantly updated, you often won't have to seek out links at all. One way links are the best way to increase the link popularity of the site and get theme based relevant links for natural search engine optimization of the site. We try to get the maximum links exchanged with related theme based sites and use a variety of anchor text. The search engines will follow these links and index your site before you even know it. Ask the blog owner to trade links with you so that each of you gains more traffic from it.

Create Something of Value
It is unreal how many thousands of high quality links you can get from producing free software. Incoming links are like votes in election for your website but it’s not like majority is authority, quality incoming links are considered more valuable than poor links even if you have 1000s.

Link Text Relevancy
One relevant link is equal to 100 irrelevant links, you better guess how important is the link text relevancy, here relevant link text means the title of the link and very next paragraph after title.

Link Page Relevency
Link Page Relevancy Page relevancy is also very important factor, your pointed links should be placed on the relevant pages.

Link Domain Relevancy
Link domain relevancy is something that can’t be ignore, if your pointed incoming links are placed on the relevant domain and relevant page they will be highly appreciated and have more weight than your competitors.

Link type and style are very important, you should try to maximize their effectives and values in favor of your link building campaign, each link has different value and weight to search engine.

Static Links
Static links are placed on plain SEO friendly pages that have plain URLs, they are considered very important links. Link popularity is actually number of links on other web sites pointing towards your web site, also called inbound links.

The Bottom line is when it comes to Internet marketing, the design is only appreciated by your visitors after search results send them to your site.