Ways to Improve Rankings on Google

[tim.brooks]

I have been working on my website for the past couple of months or so and have still aint got the number of visitors that I thought I would get! I do not know whether Google has given my website good rankings or not, and to be honest I do not think that my site has been listed well. It might be because of the work that I am doing. Google might not find it to be satisfactory enough…

So I think that all the effort that I am putting in is going to the cleaners and I am not getting any results!!! So from the bottom of my heart (No, this is not a romantic movie dialogue) I request all those who read such forums to come forward and give ideas and inputs and tell me about ways through which I can improve my site’s rankings…Please!!!

[gordon88]

Never be frustrated ma frnd… Such things happen… You know something.. I kept busting my head for more than six months before I started getting these rankings for my website. You have been going through this whole thing only for two months.. You need patience ma frnd..patience is the word!! Through my experience I will be able to give you a few points which you need to keep in mind before you go ahead with your work on the website!

Here’s the first one: develop the website with only one motto in your mind and that being high quality information. This is the only thing that a quintessential website rich in content can capitalize on.. Just do not think of anything else.. Information.. Quality information.. Substantial information. Keep these three things in your mind and see the site bamboozle to great heights. The plan is to develop a website in such a way that it looks like a content goldmine where the person gets all that he wants.

When the first step is completed, go for the second one. The second step would be the organization of all the pages on your website into shells of information connected to each other and when you feel that you have assembled enough, then start relating all the words which are similar. You also have to team up all the concepts, ideas and terms and especially all the inbound links so that they start appearing on multiple pages on ur site..

When this is done…move on to the next step! Remember…. Take it step by step. Go slowly. Okay, the next step would be to highlight all the important terms with the firm usage of BIG and BOLD TEXT. You need to do this because it is all a game of keywords, isn’t it? When you want something, you just type the keyword on a search engine and you see lots of result pages in front of your eyes. Nothing different is going to happen with others!!! Its all the same thing… Now there is another bloody thing called an outbound link. It’s a bloody virus. Stay away from it! Its dangerous. It’s a disaster. It is POISON for your website!!!

I think that first you should focus on all the points that I have mentioned above. Concentrate on them and if possible post in your website’s URL. I will do a proof check and will let you know whether things are going according 2 plan or not… Keep working hard…… Cheers!!!!!!!!!

[cameron.fisher]

The first thing that you need to learn in this self absorbed selfish material world is that the art of marketing something that you launch so heavily that people from all walks get up from their filthy chairs and take a good look at what you have done!!!!!! Phew… That was close. Promotion, marketing, advertising…….. these are some words that go hand in hand with the product or the idea that is being launched in the market! If you do not promote your site properly, take that thought of getting good rankings out of your mind. There are a hundred other aspiring businessmen like you who are doing a better job.
The only way to kill the competition is by promoting the website so fiercely that when a man thinks of doing a search about something and types the words in a search engine, your website should be right at the top. Submit your links to the Yahoo directory. That should be a good first way to start things. Now I think that at least all the media related sites would definitely benefit from this move. As mentioned in the previous comment about all the shells and stuff, if all these so called shells that you have designed are good, then you can simply submit all of them independently. This would again be a sort of masterstroke.

The topics should provide your site with good rankings courtesy the density that would be generated by the inter-related words. These keywords would help you pull lots of content developers whose work usually involves a great deal of research. Keep posting new stuff all the time so that these content developers and other customers keep coming all the time and become permanent visitors. Remember, since you yourself belong to the same fraternity keeps you at an advantage as you must be knowing what works with them and what does not.

Keep posting new releases all the time and start distributing these various URLs through publications and information sheets so that you reach a wider audience. Target all sorts of customer base and never limit yourself to a particular target audience. You never know the people behind whom your business might get a boost. You can also do a check on different referrals from other websites. Submit this to the search engine, say Google. And yes, just keep working like hell to make your site better and better.

[sdouglas]

hey… I see a discussion going on. It makes me think that I might also be some help and can give some inputs!! If in any case, your website has a small size, then chances are that you might be loosing out on customers just by the size of it. There is a certain section of people out there who are very finicky when it comes to the size of a website. They feel like the small sites would be containing very limited information and it is only the big sites which have truckloads of data. That plays a crucial role. Make sure that the size of your website is as big as it can be and support it equally with good content.

Try being a bit meticulous with your content by extending its reach to many pages. You can also play a killer move by keeping a different keyword content for each page. You can also include to this a specific title so that a particular phrase related to a keyword can be caught. One more thing that I feel like adding is that you should endeavor hard to keep your links very high on description.

[bob477]

So its all about the rankings..eyyy! Try to get lots of directory listings. Search out all the websites in the world for getting the data out. You can go to websites like Yahoo, About and LookSmart for all that you require. This would give you an edge in the race. Try you level best to optimize the site as much as you can and interconnect all the subdirectories that you accumulate. You can go for a certain style of optimizing by consulting a professional. These professionals will not charge you much for consultation. You can give your campaign a shot in the arm by starting a fresh domain with the only motto being getting a good listing in Yahoo and LookSmart. Strategize these domains on a different swarm and that too in a country far away. The time when your domain acquires a directory listing is the time when you start the final operative stage of your site.

Interconnect those damned domains. Never underestimate your competitors. This is a vital reason behind the failure of most business ventures. People always think of themselves as these big guns who can never go wrong with anyone and often ignore the fact that the other person also has a brain, a computer at his office which he keeps using day in and day out for building links. And this is the point when they fall flat. Avoid that situation and you will be happy. Your competitor might be shrewd and could be in all possibility using more than one domain.

Start targeting more than one web structure and that too with a closely knit theme. This would help you stay in the hunt. Try to program your website in such a way that links can be exchanged from other websites as well. Compound domain patterns completely understand the effective usage of trans-linking and will in all probability exchange links with you. Keep the starting numbers to at least 20 links. It is always good to follow sane strategies suggested by others but remember to go with your gut feeling. With time you will feel like bettering your own performance and will keep raising the bar. Just wait for that moment when those competing with you come to you for exchanging links. Trust me, that will also happen.

[michaelw]

Rankings are a nice craving.. Something that does not let go of a person too easily…. No I am not blaming you. Honestly, I keep running after them all the time! Now coming back to business, my friend you need to understand that Google is completely love with the word ‘density’. Target keyphrases. That is what I keep doing all the time. I do not give free advice to people but since you are from the same business, I do not feel hesitant. Try to search out the most unique keywords on the block. You will get a good rating. This is what Google is hungry for……..keywords… keywords and only keywords……Good Keywords!

Now apart from keywords… let me tell you something more important… never…Never Ever use hidden text. Keep these two things in mind and patiently wait for the rest of the search engines to be as nice as Google is to you so that your site keeps getting better with each passing day and gathers good rankings.

You might try and act like a hotshot by posting hidden text and thinking that this extra content will work wonders for you but the thing is that my friend….the search engine is just like Sherlock Holmes. It can even smell a dead rat with a choked nose. It identifies the hidden text and……..it becomes very angry. And it becomes very tough to control the search engine’s anger. It goes on a mission of destruction, Its gonna slaughter your website just like those poor goats and your website my friend……earns a very bad name in the market!!! So now you know what to do…just do the right thing!

[oneseer]

Eurekaa!!! You build a website and you make it so huge that the internet finds it tough to accommodate it and give it some space….. What happens to it??? It is stripped of all its credibility courtesy you for posting trash with not even a single user visiting your site as they do not find it reliable enough! Listen pal, if you keep thinking of expanding your site then let me tell you that you are in serious trouble! Always go for quality over quantity! If you don’t do it, you’re done! Finished!

All those who keep telling you to expand the size of the site are amateurs>> It might sound rude… but its true! Keep the size as it is until you keep adding the kind of content the search engine appreciates and which gets you some visitors. Do not let ambition get the best out of you. If you incessantly keep going on an expanding spree, that is not going to fetch you anything. Target keywords which make an impact and which benefits people. One very crucial comment that was posted above and which I completely agree with is interlinking all the pages.

Go after a certain theme. This tactic can be implemented successfully by having primary keyphrases in all the segments on every page at least once. Target all the relevant websites. Dare you even let go of one!!!!! Do all this and see the good times rolling………………………….

[cameron.fisher]

Nice Discussion going on!!!

[helen.carter]

So mates…Long time eyy. No comments. Where did we leave this conversation at last time?? Yeahh.. So I was about to say that there are still a lot of ways to accelerate the rankings …o�of them is website development and information architecture… I �aware that this terminology might b alien to the uninitiated, but trust me once you get to know it you will be very happy. On needs to develop a website which is so rich in content that even Bill Gates is put to shame. This content should provide the user with unique and quality content which he would not get anywhere else in the world. Think of it only if you feel that you can do it.

The content should be such that if any of your competitors read it, then feel ashamed of what they have posted and you make them envy. The pages need to be organized in such a way that they interconnect into the pods where related information in present. It is a kind of a link building exercise. The terms and concepts need to be similar so that the reader can comprehend the stuff that has been published. This way the inbound links keep multiplying the pages. Bold text should be used so that all the important and vital terms are highlighted. Make an analysis from the point of view of the readers and understand the ways in which a reader feels like reading a particular text. If you succeed in understanding this, my friend half the battle would b won. You might avoid the occurrence of a war.