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Patience is a virtue
We understand how difficult it can be to sit and wait, but it can take
many months before you achieve desired results. Remember that you are
competing with hundreds of millions of other websites on the search
engines, and patience will prevail! One of the worst things you can
do is over-submit your website. Remember that when you over-submit,
you run the risk of being banned from search engines.
Website Content should be your #1 priority!
AddWeb can help you in many ways, but your quest for high placement must
start with a good website. It is important to have a lot of text describing
what you do. Use your keywords in the content, but don't repeat them
over and over. Many search engines rate sites based on 'keyword density'.
This is usually a formula that looks at META Keywords, words in your
TITLE, words in paragraph text, words in links to other pages, and
even words in the 'ALT' text on your images. They will even look at
different forms of your keywords. For example, if an important keyword
for you is 'FISH', the word 'FISHING' in the body of your document
will raise the confidence in the word 'FISH' on some engines.
Links to Other Pages
We can't emphasize enough the importance of links. Both from your page
to other pages, and from other pages to yours.
First consider links on your pages. When many search engines see them,
they consider your site more 'real'. It also gives the search engine
spiders a place to go. Make your links meaningful. Make sure they relate
to what you do (and keywords that are important to you). You can't
have too many links on your pages.
Links from other websites
Some search engines place a very heavy rating of importance on how many
other sites in their index have links to your website. Think of it
for a second. If you knew that a company was only linked to by one
website, versus a company that was linked to by a thousand websites,
which one would you consider more important? If you were a search engine,
you would surely try to link the more important ones first.
This is where patience comes in again. It can take some time to get a
ton of links to your website. AddWeb helps quite a bit here, however.
The fact that AddWeb submits to so many sites will help you get a great
head start in this area!
Don't use frames
Most search engine simply cannot index a frames page. They get to your
site and can't go anywhere. Consider frames like a big 'GO AWAY' sign.
Don't try to fool the engines
This is probably the biggest trap people fall into. People come up with
ways to 'fool' search engines, and they work for a little while... sometimes.
But then the search engines catch on and write routines that penalize
sites that use this practice. Examples of this include, but are not limited
to: repeating keywords over and over; using invisible text (white text
on white background); using very small text to jam the keywords in a
small area.
Keep the most important content near the top of your pages.
Some engines will place a higher rating of importance based on where
they find the text in your page. Closer to the top is usually better.
Don't stuff the top your pages with data the engines can't read.
As with the last example, something higher up in your page can be more
important that something further down. Therefore, HTML formatting, images,
scripts, etc. toward the top of your page can result in lower ratings.
Don't go Image Crazy
We have all seen pages that are almost all images. Usually they are the
most beautiful sites. After all, your artist can make beautiful screens
that display your content in the most eye-pleasing way. However, the
search engines don't have eyes. They don't see the beautifully formatted
text in your image. All they see is 'yourimage.jpg', and 'yourimage.jpg'
doesn't go far in terms of content and relevancy.
Look at the competition
Consider everything you have read so far and have a look at the people
that have the top 20 positions with the keywords that are important to
you. Look at what they are doing and what they are not doing.
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