November 6th, 2008 by admin
Let’s address the second question first. All now website start with no PageRank. It is also probably not indexed. See Check if your website is indexed and how to get it indexed. For those who are in a hurry, see Fastest way to get indexed by search engine.
Your website may also be black listed by search for practicing Black Hat SEO (Search Engine Optimization) such as making text invisible by making the font color same as background. A blogger complained his blog’s PageRank has been downgraded to unranked. There can be various reasons why a website’s PageRank may be downgraded. One of them is what they call the “Google Dance”. Google changes its algorithm and some websites may get their PageRank increased, some downgraded, some downgraded very badly. I am not aware of anything we can do about this, unless you know the inner workings of Google search engines which they will NEVER reveal.
Or perhaps, you can. Check Google Webmaster Guidelines and see if you are complying with their guidelines.
After ensuring your website complies with their guidelines, if you don’t already have a Google sitemap for your website, add Google sitemap (click BACK button to get back to this page) to your website, then go to Google Webmaster Tools, click “request reconsideration”, select “request reconsideration”, select the website if you have more than one, submit request, then pray hard. Read the rest of this entry »
September 11th, 2008 by admin
First question that arises in our mind is that exactly what is the difference between an unremarkable, no value added, thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age. Sites that were around a few years ago had fewer competitors, so it was easier for them to rank and as we are aware that they are aged so they got trusted more.
If your site is a brand new site and you want to compete against established sites directly on their most important keywords then you need to be good at public relations, have a better brand strategy, or have some remarkable feature that makes people want to talk about you. Without conversation and links it is hard to pass up sites that have been accumulating links for Read the rest of this entry »
September 1st, 2008 by admin
When it comes to getting good rankings, or even semi-good rankings, in the search engines one of the most underutilized strategies is that of getting backlinks to your site or blog. The sad thing about that is, getting links to your site is perhaps one of the most important things that you can do to raise your position in the search engines and to benefit from the traffic that will provide.
It’s long been known that getting these backlinks, particularly those of only a one way variety, is the key to many people’s success in the search engines and there are very good reasons it is.
The backlinks to your site, for one, tell the search engines how popular your site is. The more sites linking to you, the more popular you are. It’s almost like the cliques in high school.
The next thing is that search engines look at when it comes to backlinks is what types of sites are linking to you. If you’re pounding away links on sites that are of low quality, filled with spam and spammed with links you’ll still get credit for a link back to your site but that value of that link will be degraded. So, these links not only tell search engines how popular your site or blog is but they also tell search engines about your quality. Read the rest of this entry »
August 20th, 2008 by admin
Getting your blog ranked high on Google is a fantastic way to attract potential clients. Here’s how it’s done.
1. Select Your Keywords and Keyword Phrases
Choose the keywords and keyword phrases you want your blog post to rank high for on the Google search engine results page. For example, I want my blog post to rank high for the term, “blog ranked high on Google.” Currently there are approximately 286,000 pages using this term so I’ll have to do everything in my power to compete with these web pages to get my blog post on the first page of the Google results page for that term.
My keyword phrase also includes other keyword phrases like, “ranked high on Google” with about 310,000 competing pages and “high on Google” with over 71 million competing pages. Getting to the first page for these terms would be a bonus.
2. Use Your Keywords in Your Blog Title
Google pays very close attention to the words and phrases you use in your blog title. Notice how I used the term, “blog ranked high on Google” in the title of this article. It’s important to use your keyword phrase in your blog title if you want to rank high for that phrase on the Google results page. Read the rest of this entry »
