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What is Website Ranking |
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How does your
website rank. This means how does your website
come up in a search for certain keywords. Does
it come up on page one or page 100? Having your
website come in the first couple of pages in a
search means that more visitors will find you
quicker. One way to generate traffic to your
website is to increase your website's ranking. Below
is a list of resources that will help you do that.
Find out how your
site ranks:
Google Rankings
PR Checker
Site Score
(search engins, social sites and blogs) |
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Improve Your Ranking
By Performing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) |
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1. Keep your website design and
navigation simple.
2. Create HTML sitemaps for navigation. Use
the
A1 Sitemap Generator from Microsys ($49.00);
Coffeecup Sitemapper $29.00
3. Create XML sitemaps to make it easy for search
engines to crawl and index your website faster.
Use the
A1 Sitemap Generator from Microsys ($49.00).
Use the free indexing (sitemap) tool that comes with
your godaddy account.
4. Use Keywords in your meta data. But, make
sure they are found in page titles, headers and in
the content. Use the
KEYWORD SEARCH TOOLS below
to find keywords.
5. Engage in link exchange. Entice others to
link to your page. The more links you have
with other sites the more visibility it brings to
your website.
6. Write and submit articles to online magazines.
When readers see you article it could generate
traffic back to your website.
7. Keep your content current. This will
entice visitors to keep coming back for current
information.
8. Submit your site to Search Engines.
See SEARCH ENGINE
section below for information on how to do this.
9. Regularly check the ranking of your page
and assess what changes you need to make to improve
its ranking. Use the
RANK CHECKER tools below
to do this.
10. Use the
following social marketing sites to promote your
website. See the
SOCIAL MARKETING tools
below.
Use the resources below to improve
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Keyword Search Tools |
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Google Trends |
Find hot
search topics in real time. View the volume of
queries over time, by city, regions, languages and
so on. |
Free
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Google Keyword Tool |
Lets you find
out how a particular keyword is trending. It
shows the number of monthly local and global
searches against that keyword. |
Free |
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Yahoo Buzz Log |
See which
topics are trending daily. |
Free |
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Mike's Marketing Tool |
Mike's
Marketing Tool lets you see top 500 key words
trending int he last 48 hours and last 365 days.
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Free |
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Key Word Suggestion Tools |
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Key Word Tool
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This is a key
word suggestion tool. Enter a key word or
phrase that you're would like to use and it will
give you 15 of the most popular key words based on
that word or phrase. |
Free |
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Self SEO |
This is a key
word suggestion tool. Enter a key word or
phrase that you're would like to use and it will
give you 10 of the most popular key words based on
that word or phrase. |
Free |
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Search Engine Submission |
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1 Hit |
Submission
service: Submit to up to 30 search engines
for free. |
Free |
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About.com |
Submit
directly: If you want to get listed in
About.com directory you must submit using the page
on their website. |
Free |
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Alexia |
Submit
directly: List your site with Alexia.
Alexia is another search engine that indexes
billions of sites on the web. You must create
an account with Alexia. |
Free |
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Altavista |
Submit
directly: Submit your site to Altavista.
Their guidelines and the link to the online
submission form is at their website. |
Free. |
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Bing/MSN |
Submit
directly: Submit your site to the Bing
search engine. You must first sign up for the
Bing Webmaster Tools account. |
Free |
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Build Traffic |
Submission
service: Lets you submit to hundreds of
Search Engines at once. |
Free |
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DMOZ |
Submit
directly: DMOZ is an online directory.
Their guidelines are listed at their site.
They are selective in their choice of who gets
listed. |
Free |
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Free Add URL |
Submission
service: Submit to up to 25 search engines
for free. But, it requires that you do reverse
link first before using the service. |
Free |
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Free Search Submission |
Submission
service: Submit to 44 search engines for
free. |
Free |
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Giba Blast |
Submit
directly: One of the largest search
engines. It indexes over 10 billion web pages.
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Free |
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Google Search Engine Submission |
Submit
directly: Submit your website to Google
Search Engine by completing the online form. |
Free |
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Submit Express |
Submission
service: Submit to 70 search engines for
free. |
Free |
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Yahoo |
Submit
directly: Submit your site directly to
Yahoo for inclusion in their search engine and
directory for free. |
Free |
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Yahoo |
Submit
directly: Submit your audio, visual and
video content for inclusion in the Yahoo search
engine and directory. |
Free |
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Rank Checker |
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Google Rankings |
This site lets you check up to 15 keywords at a time
and determine your website ranking in Google, Yahoo
and MSN. |
Free |
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Rank Checker |
This tool lets you see how your site
ranks based on a keyword search |
Free |
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Social Marketing Sites |
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Digg |
Digg is a place
for people to discover and share content from
anywhere on the web. From the biggest online
destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces
the best stuff as voted on by our community.
Put your website on Digg and benefit from the
popularity of this site. |
Free |
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Yelp |
Yelp connects
people with local businesses. You can register
your business and gain access to their 66 million
annual visitors. |
Free |
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Del.icio.us |
Delicious is a
site that lets you find other websites that you like
and save them to one location and share them with
others - videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or
articles - on topics you enjoy and compile them into
one themed stack for easy sharing. Encourage
others to share your website on Del.icio.us |
Free |
