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02/07/2006 02:38:13 PM · #1 |
One of the things I've always read to improve your search rankings is to have a page that frequently changes on your site. One of the recommendations is to simply have a blog to report on the happenings of your business. Does anyone do this? Years ago I had a personal blog and I just can't imagine quite how to make the business updates interesting to anyone but us in the business...anyone have an example??
TIA - Jen
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02/07/2006 02:53:32 PM · #2 |
| Careful with this. Google treats blogs slightly differently for the purposes of pageranking. |
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02/07/2006 03:17:17 PM · #3 |
Not sure if blogs are the way to go to gain page rankings. Why? Don't really know in all honesty. All I know is, whenever I do a search (google is what I use 99.9% of the time), I rarely (if ever) get blogs in the top matches.
I've read that metatags and keywords were the best thing to use, but I think they've been so exploited I doubt they even count anymore.
My wife and I are getting ready to launch a new website (CRDC.BIZ). I'd love to know exactly what it takes to get high rankings.
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02/07/2006 03:19:51 PM · #4 |
Create a Site Map google and yahoo give query preference to a site that has submitted a Map.Google Site Map
Message edited by author 2006-02-07 15:20:52. |
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02/07/2006 03:56:51 PM · #5 |
The best way to rank high - period - is to have a LOT of content about the subjects that you want to be found easily for. The more content that contains photography subjects, the higher your spot in the listing for a "photography" search.
There are virtually no tricks that Google doesn't catch. Content is king. That's why DPC ranks high. Lots of content. No doorway pages, no hidden content, no keyword trickery. Just content. |
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02/07/2006 03:59:10 PM · #6 |
| Yes you need content and linking pages but without paying for priority listings. SITEMAP can and will help just ask GOOGLE they will tell you or better yet use the link I posted above. |
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02/07/2006 05:36:24 PM · #7 |
A sitemap was one of the first things I did. Not sure if it helped or not though, because it seems like we just got out of the google sandbox *knock on wood*. I will be adding additional content to our site in the next couple weeks, but from everything I've read, unless that content changes on a regular basis, google will think your are becoming stale and your rankings will drop. Of course, that's all subject to change with each google update! :)
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02/07/2006 05:41:38 PM · #8 |
Yup just keep after it. Your site rankings will improve every time google refreshes its database. It takes a while for google to think you are stale. Plus doing a lot of link sharing or site linking will help as well. Good luck!
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02/07/2006 05:42:25 PM · #9 |
also, think of the search engines as being blind. They can't see your great page layout, they can only read the information you provide. Your content needs to be real text, your images need ALT tags that provide a good, useable description of the image and the intent behind showing it, and your site map and navigation links [buttons or text] need descriptive ALT tags as well.
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