search engines rankings

**philsmove** · 3rd-January-2006, 01:21 PM

Can any one help with search engines rankings

My business is not dance related and yes I’m prepared to pay

**WittyBird** · 3rd-January-2006, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by philsmove

Can any one help with search engines rankings

My business is not dance related and yes I’m prepared to pay

Ask for Simon

www.amset-it.com
simon@amset-it.com

**Missy D** · 3rd-January-2006, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wittybird

Ask for Simon

www.amset-it.com
simon@amset-it.com

Top man

**ducasi** · 3rd-January-2006, 01:55 PM

The best way to get a good ranking on Google is to get people to link to you. The higher ranked the linker, the higher your rank is going to be.

So you might find some highly ranked related web sites and see if you can trade links...

bigdjiver · 3rd-January-2006, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ducasi

The best way to get a good ranking on Google is to get people to link to you. The higher ranked the linker, the higher your rank is going to be.

So you might find some highly ranked related web sites and see if you can trade links...

The search engine sites especially love links to their own sites and services.

If you want to find a search engine ranking guru the best way is to do some searches for one. If they can get their own site way up the rankings then they can probably do the same for you.

RogerR · 3rd-January-2006, 09:04 PM

Study Spider food . net

bigdjiver · 12th-August-2006, 06:47 PM

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/se...ter=0&qcat=web

shows a real time display of what people are searching for, which might give some idea of hot topics to include in a website.

(or be a fascinating time-water)

**David Bailey** · 12th-August-2006, 07:49 PM

Ooh, I completely forgot about this thread...

There are a lot of ways to improve your search engine rankings (SEO - Search Engine Optimisation), but basically they fall into "Dishonorable" and "honorable" camps.

"Dishonorable" means are effectively cheats - back ways, trying to manipulate the search engine algorithms artificially, using loopholes etc.

These may well be effective in the short term, but have a few key problems:

You don't know how well they work, as you don't know exactly how the algorithms work (not surprisingly, Google keep this stuff fairly secret), so you could pay El Dodgy SEO Comapny a shedload of cash for mediocre results.
Artificial ways may be targetted to one particular search engine
The actual site itself can become harder to use and to update because you're warping it.
If the algorithm changes (typically to close these loopholes), you're stuffed.

"Honorable" ways can be summarized as, simply, Do It Right.

Follow standard HTML and accessibility guidelines, ensure your content refers to your busines in plain and clear ways, use standard navigation links so that search engines can understand it (i.e. not Flash), follow usability guidelines (look at www.useit.com for a starting point), put in lots of links to other sites, try to get lots of links to your site, keep your content fresh and interesting, and so on.

There's a lot more to it, of course, but SEO is a field of snake-oil merchants.. As a rule, if you have a good, usable, interesting website, which is updated frequently, then you should have lots of visitors and links - so your rankings will rise.

Hope that helps - hey, 8 months too late, but I got there in the end

bigdjiver · 12th-August-2006, 09:32 PM

The search engines vary considerably in the results that they give.

http://comparesearchengines.dogpile....apAnalysis.pdf

3rd-January-2006, 01:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
philsmove Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1,726 Rep Power: 3 Reputation Total: 604	search engines rankings Can any one help with search engines rankings My business is not dance related and yes I’m prepared to pay __________________ “Where the man goes, the lady must follow...” Liz , Strictly Ballroom

3rd-January-2006, 01:55 PM	#4 (permalink)
ducasi Lovely Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Glasgow Posts: 9,535 Rep Power: 6 Reputation Total: 3230	Re: search engines rankings The best way to get a good ranking on Google is to get people to link to you. The higher ranked the linker, the higher your rank is going to be. So you might find some highly ranked related web sites and see if you can trade links... __________________ Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

3rd-January-2006, 09:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
RogerR Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: London Posts: 430 Rep Power: 3 Reputation Total: 110	Re: search engines rankings Study Spider food . net

12th-August-2006, 06:47 PM	#7 (permalink)
bigdjiver Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: bedford Posts: 3,718 Rep Power: 3 Reputation Total: 743	Re: search engines rankings http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/se...ter=0&qcat=web shows a real time display of what people are searching for, which might give some idea of hot topics to include in a website. (or be a fascinating time-water)

12th-August-2006, 07:49 PM	#8 (permalink)
David Bailey Formerly known as DavidJames Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Norf Lundin Posts: 14,042 Rep Power: 8 Reputation Total: 3773	Re: search engines rankings Ooh, I completely forgot about this thread... There are a lot of ways to improve your search engine rankings (SEO - Search Engine Optimisation), but basically they fall into "Dishonorable" and "honorable" camps. "Dishonorable" means are effectively cheats - back ways, trying to manipulate the search engine algorithms artificially, using loopholes etc. These may well be effective in the short term, but have a few key problems: You don't know how well they work, as you don't know exactly how the algorithms work (not surprisingly, Google keep this stuff fairly secret), so you could pay El Dodgy SEO Comapny a shedload of cash for mediocre results. Artificial ways may be targetted to one particular search engine The actual site itself can become harder to use and to update because you're warping it. If the algorithm changes (typically to close these loopholes), you're stuffed. "Honorable" ways can be summarized as, simply, Do It Right. Follow standard HTML and accessibility guidelines, ensure your content refers to your busines in plain and clear ways, use standard navigation links so that search engines can understand it (i.e. not Flash), follow usability guidelines (look at www.useit.com for a starting point), put in lots of links to other sites, try to get lots of links to your site, keep your content fresh and interesting, and so on. There's a lot more to it, of course, but SEO is a field of snake-oil merchants.. As a rule, if you have a good, usable, interesting website, which is updated frequently, then you should have lots of visitors and links - so your rankings will rise. Hope that helps - hey, 8 months too late, but I got there in the end __________________ Jivetango Godfather Inventor of the Masterclass Baboon-worrier extraordinaire

12th-August-2006, 09:32 PM	#9 (permalink)
bigdjiver Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: bedford Posts: 3,718 Rep Power: 3 Reputation Total: 743	Re: search engines rankings The search engines vary considerably in the results that they give. http://comparesearchengines.dogpile....apAnalysis.pdf

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