(Hear this
article at:
http://www.BlueGrind.com/seo-secrets.html)Some of
these are new secrets, but most of the ones are common
sense secrets that have been out for a long time. I will
discuss them and I am sure they will help you get better
ranking within a couple of months of implementing some
of these strategies. So let’s start with some of the
newer secrets.
Did you know that when a website is new to Google,
the site will not receive good ranking for the most
important keywords for the first few months. This is
called the Sandbox effect. It doesn’t matter how good
the site is and how relevant and however many links it
has, it will have to go through this “Probation Period”.
Google tries to minimize spammed listings so I am
assuming that this is one of the ways they think
spammers will be deterred. Spammers, or those that
guarantee website owners, Top 10 listing in10 days, etc.
cannot wait that long, but a legitimate site owner can
wait.
Also from the recently filed patent by Google, some
other things effect ranking, like, how old the
registration of your domain name is. If it is less than
a year old (Probably registered to get ranking), then it
will not get good ranking. If your domain name is only
registered for one year (vs. Multi year registration
which you can get from
http://www.buildwebsite.com/domainname.html) it will
not get favorable ranking.
The name of the game is getting a good page rank so
it shows the Google system that you have a site that is
relevant and more importantly, significant in the space
you are occupying. Another consideration you should keep
in mind is the very quick building of links. This
signals spam to Google. You are probably buying links or
just placing links in sites that have no relevance to
the space you occupy.
So what can you do if you have just launched your
site and you are legitimate? Well, some of the things
you can do are fairly obvious. First of all if your
domain name is registered more than a year ago, you have
a good chance of getting listed based on your content.
You can go to (http://www.google.com/addurl).
This would let Google know you have a site, and they can
schedule it for inclusion.
But a better step would be to create a sitemap of
your site. You can go to http://www.sitemaps.org (There
is a layman’s explanation at
)
and learn how to create a sitemap that will speed your
inclusion to Google, as well as Yahoo, and MSN, because
this is a standard that was put together by Google,
Yahoo and Microsoft, to make it easier for their webbots
to scan your site.
Of course the most important thing is to have good
content on your site. One that is relevant to your space
or field. If you sell shoes, have information about
shoes, shoe polish and maybe clothes, but not
necessarily cars or houses etc. If you include Houses or
cars, it will make your site less relevant and it will
make sure you do not get a good rank. Also try to make
separate pages for each subcategory. If you sell shoes
and shoe polish, then have them on separate pages but
linked from each other’s page.
Good housekeeping techniques are important for good
ranking. Ah, the last thing, that has been a rule since
Al Gore claimed he invented the Internet, use Meta Tags;
At least the Description and the Keyword Meta Tags. Make
sure it is different for each page, by different I mean
more relevant to what that page is all about. The more
relevance there, the higher the ranking in the search
engines.
These techniques will get you 90% of the way there,
and they are all clean, “White Hat Tricks”, meaning they
are all welcomed by the search engines, after all, the
search engines want your site listed and offered to the
user if it is relevant to the user’s needs.