Search Engine Result Page

[helen.carter]

Hi There! Can someone tell me as to how Search Engine Result Pages will determine the kind of business that my website will do? What relation does this have with search engine optimization? I am in touch with a group of professionals whom I am paying to get some keyword related links so that I can optimize my website on search engines. So I think these result pages must be having some relation to them. How can I make sure that these pages will depict my website on the top so that people can come to my site easily? Please guide me on this.

[cameron.fisher]

Its very simple. A user types in a keyword in a search engine and in turn the search engine displays several pages as a result. These pages on display are the result pages that you are asking about. The business angle that you are talking about is clearly depicted in these result pages. If these professionals whom you are paying money for these paid-for-links design some good stuff for you which I expect that they will, then your website gets a highly enhanced placement in these result pages. Now I think you will be able to make out what exactly I mean!!! Yes, the probability of people visiting your website increases and you have a brilliant chance to earn. Like if you get your page listed on Google (I believe you must have visited Google before), lots of web pages accompanied by titles appear with each page having a brief description about the stuff that comes on screen. These pages also highlight the keyword that you typed in the descriptions that appear. So make sure that those developers do a good job. To make money, you need a good search engine position.

[gordon88]

Most of the search engines work because such pages are available in heaps and bounds. People who start a website work aggressively on optimizing their sites and thus get these search engines huge business. So if your whole business plan is designed in a creditable way, then I do not see a reason as to why your website would not get a good position. These search engines keep updating the result pages so that new stuff keeps drawing users all the time. These search engines offer a variety of searches like textual search, image search, maps and definitions. So try to make your stuff as informative and diverse as possible. Variation is a must. This way you have a good chance of drawing users. These pages also contain advertisements so that they are successful in their enterprise of funding operations. These ads would be very small in size. Phew… that was a lot of information on Results Pages!!! And yes, before I sign off make sure that you market your stuff in a clinical way. The more you market it, the better will it be. Good Luck.

[bob477]

To get good result pages, you need to make use of exact phrases instead of loose keywords. Doing the latter would mean taking the highway to failure. There is a certain criterion that search engines follow while producing result pages. Make sure that the people whom you have contacted for building up links give you proper keyword oriented material so that the user gets to read and access your stuff. It is through these result pages that the user gets to know about your work. They are of soaring importance. Just to add a cliché, it can be said that result pages are your only ray of hope. Just for your information, all these big search engines usually cache certain result pages so that they can be shown again and again to increase the number of users. These engines will never show live pages as they consider is as not good for business. You should also take note of the point that these result pages are not easily refreshed as the process goes on for days and can even stretch to weeks. So once you put the content online, make sure that you do not feel like immediately making changes. Rankings will be done according to the number of crucial keywords that your material contains. The search engine will put the most pertinent pages on the top and I think that the top is where you want your stuff to be at. Make it keyword rich. I might sound dumb by repeating this but it is true. That is how you get placed high in search result pages.

[cameron.fisher]

The basic thing is that keywords should be the main area of concentration in your campaign. Without them, it’s all curtains!!! Make sure that things do not have a lot of resemblance to each other. This can prove to be a drawback. Start submitting your website to website directories (a strong way of giving your business that much needed push). Create proper anchor text which is again co-related to making use of the appropriate keywords. Keep making variations in that anchor text to kill monotony which might drive away a potential customer. A search engine can easily identify whether your website has been submitted to 500 different directories with the similar anchor text or not. Then the search engine might get infuriated (LOL…as if you have just broken out of prison and it is the patrolling officer!!!) and might give you zero credit for your work. I think all this would be enough for you to get what result pages are. Have a great going!!

[oneseer]

I think that I have finally found the right forum to discuss this topic…Now I along with a couple of my mates are researching about this trick through which search engines can be made to produce the right kind of pages, which would help web developers to get their sites right their on top. Now we know that it is about keywords.

The fact that I am stressing on is that keywords need to be used and placed in a way so that from the very first go the website achieves the goal that it is aimed at. So if you guys have any inputs, don’t wait. Just pick up your keyword and type it out. All suggestions would be welcomed whether good, bad or ugly. Remember, this is a research going on…..

[maxbot1]

It might be some kind of research…but I don’t think that you guys are going in the right direction. It is not upto the user and it is not in our hands to position our keywords. All we can do is make the content rich in keywords and mention those keywords in all the right places. If the keywords are placed in the right positions, then the search engine automatically finds them out and displays the right kind of result pages. It depends on the keywords that you use. They have to be crisp and concise. You have to keep yourself in the shoes of the user and think about all the keywords that he will type to pull out information. So you enter those keywords in the content that out publish and see the preferred result pages. So that’s what I am trying to explain…you are not the search engine…You cannot do it yourself.

As far as I know, the result pages displayed by search engines are pages which are put on display in return to the query which the user types in the form of a keyword. These result pages usually display a list of website pages along with their titles. That is how I have seen Google and yahoo do it. Can’t say about the rest of the lot! ,a link to the page, and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page. A SERP may refer to a single page of links returned, or to the set of all links returned for a search query. So I think here that you have got something wrong with your research…You need to get it back on track. All that we as users can do is dump the keywords (not dump exactly) in the content from all corners and wait for the search engine to appreciate them. Once that happens, it is game on for the user!

[tim.brooks]

You’re making it sound way too simplistic. If all I need to make my website a hit is keywords then why would I bother with anything else? Content and substance also stand for something. I understand that searching for key phrases and keywords makes information-searching easier, but it doesn’t�cessarily make the search more successful…..w� I’m try� to say is…we shou�’t simply �t our eyes and opt for content that is merely keywords and a few conjunctions thrown in between but actually deliver something of worth and substance to our users. Because that’s what the �rage guy is looking for on the net and the one thing he usually doesn’t find, becau�most webmasters are just too busy throwing keywords by the bucket into the website content.

Frankly, I think it’s a matter of c�on sense. If you have proper content, then you don’t need anything e�. People aren’t stupid, they know�at they want. If all they find from their searching is just keyword-rich gobbledygook, trust me, they’re not going to make �ir way back to the website anytime soon.

Right….I think I’ve ranted en�h. Fellas�y point is that good content NEVER fails. All the keywords in the world can’t make shoddy copy seem goo�nd the lack of ten thousand keywords in a one-page article won’t take away its significance �t is written well, because regardless of whether the search engine brings users to your website by route of never-ending keyword-content, those users won’t be back if they don’t find an�ense in your stuff. O� and out.