www.bseenbsold.com Web Design Casey, Narre Warren, Berwick, Cranbourne, Fountain Gate en-US Copyright 2002-2005 Be Seen Be Sold ian@beseenbesold.com Getting listed in Google can take anywere from 2-6 weeks.  The fasted way to get listed is to have a link to your site from another popular site. We do this for a number of our customers to ensure they are listed in Google as quickly as possible. Today we are fast tracking Mike Larkan's new website. About Mike Larkan: Channel 10 weather personality Mike Larkan, is one of Melbourne's favourite TV stars. He is seen nightly on Channel 10's First at Five news service. After spending more than 10 years in Sydney and Canberra working in numerous facets of newspaper, radio and television, Mike moved to Melbourne about 10 years ago and is an integral part of the news line-up. Whatever the weather, Mike is out and about presenting his unique style of live crosses from Melbourne landmarks and events. He produces and writes as well as presents the segments. Mike is heard daily on 3AW, is an Australia Day Ambassador, Melbourne Zoo Ambassador and patron/supporter of numerous charities. He is an in demand corporate event host. http://www.mikelarkan.com.au/ http://www.bseenbsold.com/News/tabid/512/forumid/10/postid/73/view/topic/Default.aspx host Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:34:33 GMT Google seems to be rapidly becoming the most popular search engine. Submitting, getting listed and getting a high ranking in Google can get you a lot of traffic, usually even more than Yahoo. Google uses link popularity while ranking web sites which results in quality search results therefore making it a favorite among most web searchers. Submitting to Google You need to only submit your homepage to Google. It will automatically index the entire site. Don't submit individual pages of your site. Tip: Google's crawler Googlebot will follow all the links in your site. So make sure all your pages are linked otherwise some of your pages will not get indexed. Submit to Google here Getting Listed in Google Getting listed in Google is usually very fast. We got listed within 2 weeks and all our new pages are usually listed within a month. The time frame depends on their crawl schedule and how many other web sites are in queue to be indexed before ours. In our experience, Google usually lists a site within a month. Tip: Make sure your web site is ready before you submit it to be listed. Google will index your entire site, content and all. It takes keywords from the metatags as well as the content. You'll find that Google will send you the maximum amount of traffic (in our case it is triple of what Yahoo send us - and Yahoo is supposed to be the #1 Search Engine), so time well spent on your web site will pay off in the long run. Tip: Google usually indexes sites during the 2nd week and lists new content during the first few days of the next month. We usually see our new content added on the 2nd or 3rd of the month. A safe bet is to wait for a month to see new pages listed. Ranking in Google Getting listed in Google is pretty easy but what really matters is your ranking. The best way to get a high ranking in Google is to have many sites linking to your site. As Google uses link popularity as its most important factor in ranking web sites, getting many sites to link to you is your best bet in getting a high ranking. Get quality links and increased visitor traffic with only minutes of submission efforts! Tip: Try to develop quality content which is different from what other sites are offering and you're guaranteed to get a high ranking in Google. Think of specialized keywords instead of using generic terms. Using generic keywords would usually land you in the 30th or 40th page whereas using specialized, or a combination of keywords would get you in the 1st or 2nd page of search results. Think of writing articles that others have not written and you're sure to come up in the first 10 search results. E.g If we were to write an article on web design we would probably come up in the 100th page of search results, whereas if we were to write on 'Creating Swap Images in Fireworks' we would probably come up in the first 10 search results. Google Tips 'n Tricks Make sure all your important keywords should appear in your title, description, content and alt tags of your web page. This increases your keyword density and helps in boosting your ranking. Write articles, give away freebies and make your site a quality site with fresh content. Sites will automatically link to you thus increasing your link popularity. Here's a cool trick to find out if you are listed in Google . Type this URL in your browser http://www.google.com/search? q=YOURDOMAIN+site:WWW.YOURDOMAIN.COM Google will return to you a complete list of all pages that lie on yourdomain.com that exist within the Google catalog. Example http://www.google.com/search?q=entheosweb+site:www.entheosweb.com You can also find out how many sites that are listed in Google are linking to your site. Here's the trick. Type this URL in the browser and watch the results. http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=YOURDOMAIN.COM Google will return to you the number of pages which link to your web site in addition to a listing of each URL. Example: http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=entheosweb.com http://www.bseenbsold.com/News/tabid/512/forumid/10/postid/72/view/topic/Default.aspx host Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:30:57 GMT Selecting the correct keywords can make or break your website. Potential customers search the web for desired sites, and if your website doesn't have the keywords they're looking for, they'll miss you. Determining keywords is an art; it's best to work backwards. What would a customer search for if they were looking for your site? You literally have to put yourself in the consumer's place and let go of your preconceived notions about what you think your keywords are. You should remember when writing your site that you need to use words that are not only related to your content, but are popular search words as well. This is called keyword optimization, or choosing the most searched keywords related to your content. Spend some time listing all of the words and phrases that are related to your website content. Get ideas from everyone you can think of and list them all. Visit competitors' sites and see what meta tags they use. After this research, you are ready to develop your own keyword phrases. There are several sites designed to assist you in keyword optimization. Here are a few of the free ones:- Wordtracker ( www.wordtracker .com )  would have to be the best on the market and helps identify keywords that will help your ranking on search engines. Wordtracker also gives you other keyword combinations that you may have overlooked.   If your really serious about getting good results it's also a good idea to sign up to their paid service, which checks your keywords against all the major search engines.  We recommend the paid service as the results are far superior.  We do this for every site we build. The Overture Keyword Tool ( http://www.inventory.overture.com ) lists searches related to the keyword you provide. This took is great for expanding your list. The Keyword Tumbler ( http://www.keywordtumbler.com ) takes your existing keyword phrases and mixes it up to form new phrases and variations that you can include in your meta tags. A great website is not so great if no one finds it. Remember to research your keywords carefully from the consumer's viewpoint and then sit back and watch the traffic roll in!   http://www.bseenbsold.com/News/tabid/512/forumid/10/postid/71/view/topic/Default.aspx ian2 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:47:22 GMT