how to improve web site position in search?
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if it is already in yahoo..you need to work on your meta-tags...(Keywords, title, and description)...make them have the words you want for people to search for when they search in yahoo...if you're not in yahoo yet...good luck...you just need to get in
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Read a SEO book. There is a whole profession  relying on this thing called search engine optimization. I can give you some starting tips.\n1) Make a file containing address of all pages in your website, name it robots.txt and put it in root of website.\n2) Have a sitemap of your wbesite.\n3) Submit your site to google, Yahoo, MSN.\n4) Have a lot of keywords describing your website and put them in comma seprated list in meta tags.\n5) Have a lot of intra webite links\n6) Try to locate another people in same business and exchange links with them.
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Submit your site to search engines:\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/webmasters.php\n\nfind people to link\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/howtoincreasehits.php
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Allow me to answer this question because I AM on the top #1 spot in three different categories (first names, nursery rhymes, blonde jokes).\n\nCONTENT -- \nFirst and foremost, the content you have on your site is the most important and most crucial thing over anyting else that you can do to your site. What I advise my clients to do is to actually THINK like a search engine or if that is too abstract, think like someone who speaks a different language. \n\nAlthough search engines are getting much better at figuring out exactly what it is that is on the page, remember it is often impossible for them to decipher Java, Javascript, Flash, and other non-HTML components. This is NOT to say don't use them, just use them when they are to be used appropriately.\n\nBecause search engines ARE getting better at figuring out what is on a page, spelling and grammar are also very important. The rule of thumb is no more than three misspellings and no more than three gramatical errors on a page. Sentences should be of short to medium length and paragraphs should also be rather short.\n\nDO NOT COPY OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK. The search engines can penalize a site heavily for plagiarism.\n\nTAGS\n\nTitle Tags -- The most important of all tags is the Title tag. This is what shows up on the bars on the bottom of your computer screen. Most people make the mistake of putting their company name in the Title Tag and that is the worst thing to do (other than putting no tag at all). A Title Tag should be short and to the point and tell what the page is about and if you want to add your company name then add it at the END of the title tag not at the beginning.\n\nMeta Tags -- Meta tags were how search engines would know what was on a page... many years ago. However, with that said it is important that Meta tags are still added to your site and more importantly there are new meta tags (more than just description and keywords) that should be added to the web site such as content type and content language.\n\nMeta Description -- Meta description should start out with the SAME thing your TITLE tag says and then go into more detail. \n\nMeta Keywords -- Meta keywords are words used to describe what is in your page. First use keywords that are in the title and the description first. Then use keywords that are in the content of the page. DO NOT try to spam the search engines by using keywords that are not relevant to your content.\n\nAlt Tags -- With the advent of XHTML, ALT tags for images are now REQUIRED. The Alt tag is used for people who have their images turned off so it is important to have in the alt tag exactly what the image is but also expand on what it is. An example would be a HOME button. Instead of just having HOME as the Alt Tag, use Home -- Site Name.com. \n\nI have noticed that search engines love geography and it is good to put that in there whenever appropriate. If your company is in Kansas City, MO then put those in the Content and in the Tags.\n\nLINKS\n\nHaving links that send people to sites relevant to your site is always a good practice. People ask me where I get links and how do I get people to link to my site. The answer is very simple. First I ask. I write e-mails (NOT SPAM) to sites asking if they wish to reciprocate links with me and I also have on some of my pages a "Link to this Page" button so that web site owners can do it on their own.\n\nThere is great debate as to whether links to other sites that are not of the same category help, hurt, or are indifferent. From my ten years experience I have found that appropriate links DO NOT hurt your web site and could very well help in some instances.\n\nPRIVACY POLICY\n\nI won't go into much detail here but make sure you have one. So many people forget this and it is extremely important. You will NOT find a major web page that does not have a Privacy Policy attached to it.\n\nTRAFFIC\n\nObviously the more traffic you have coming to your web site the better. Not only ar
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1. Go to the Yahoo directory and click on the category where you think your site belongs. Be as specific as possible. For example, if your site is about Bill Gates, then browse to: Computers and Internet > People > Gates, Bill]. Look for the link in the upper right hand corner that says "Suggest a Site." Choose "Standard Consideration" to apply your site for free.\n\n2. Next go to the Open Directory Project and do the exact same thing. Click on the categories until you get to the one where you think your site will fit in. [For example: Top: Business: Real Estate: News and Media]. Look for the link in the upper right corner that says "Suggest URL." This is very important, becuase if you get listed on the ODP, you will automatically show up in Google and many other search engines.\n\n3. Get Googlebot to crawl your site. Enter your site's URL into the text box and click "Add URL." If accepted your site will appear in Google.\n\nGood luck!
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You need to get a good ranking in the search engines and establish a network of other sites that link to yours.\n\nSearch engines use a complicated and secret algorithm to determine which sites are placed where in the rankings but there are several tricks you can employ to boost you ranking.\n\nThere's lots of articles on the net to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but I ignore all of them and do things my way.  This seems to work as every site I've created ranks within the top 6 on Google even when there's millions of results found.  A site I created less than a week ago is already ranked number 1 by Yahoo and Google.\n\nThese are some of my tips...\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A GOOD TITLE TAG --\nOne of the first things a search engine looks at is the title tag of the page. When writing the tag use the same words people are likely to key in when using a search engine.  For example, if your page is about space travel then a title such as "Space Travel - Be a Shuttle Rocket Tourist and Journey to the Moon" is much better than "All about flying to the moon and back".  Why?  Because the first tag includes words people are likely to use in a search engine such as space, travel, shuttle, rocket, tourist, journey and moon.\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A RELEVANT NAME --\nSearch engines look at page names.  If your domain was mydomain.com then a page name such as mydomain.com/space-travel will do much better than mydomain.com/section1/part2/page3.\n\n-- USE THE DESCRIPTION TAG --\nSome search engines including Google support this tag - others don't.  \n\nCompare a Yahoo search for 'Black Eyed Peas' to a Google Search.  Both of them find blackeyedpeas.com but Yahoo describe it as "... Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit ... The Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and others ...".  Google uses the description tag and describes it as "Official site includes videos, message boards, tour dates, and photo gallery. Additional content is available to members."\n\n-- USE THE ALT TAG --\nSome search engines ignore the alt tag, others include it when spidering your site.  Not only that but some visually impaired users and power-surfers who turn off images rely on alt tags.\n\n-- FLASH ANIMATION / SCRIPTING / DHTML --\nSpiders are unable to follow these linking systems.  If all your pages are linked using Flash, DHTML or scripts then the spider won't follow the links and your pages won't get indexed.  If you're designing your site this way the least you can do it to include conventional text links to the main pages of your site and ideally to a Site Map that contains text links to every page.\n\n-- SPLASH PAGES --\nThese are the animated front pages to a site, usually nothing there other than an animation and a 'Skip Intro' link.  Spiders don't like Splash and as this is the doorway to your site think carefully before creating one.\n\n-- DOORWAY PAGES --\nThese are pages that exist on a site but are not accessible to the visitor, if someone tries to access the page they are redirected elsewhere.  Historically webmasters created such pages and stuffed them full of popular keywords and phrases.  \n\nSpiders have wised up to Doorways and there's nothing better for getting yourself pushed right down in the rankings or kicked out altogether than use of Doorway Pages.\n\n-- HIDDEN TEXT --\nSome web pages hide text by printing white text on a white background for example.  Often such text has nothing at all to do with the site but is just a list of popular words and phrases used to draw people to the site.  Spiders can spot tricks like these and will penalise sites that employ such tactics.\n\n-- PUT A HEADING ON YOUR PAGE --\nThe heading should closely match the page title.  You need to format the heading as a Heading Style and not simply use bold and underlined text.\n\n-- REPEA
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Here are some tips for you...\n1. Focus on creating quality contents.\n\n2. Create error-free HTML - search engines love error free HTML. Must include meta tags. Ensure HTML heading tags are used properly to highlight the key words.\n\n3. Avoid dynamic URLs as far as possible - search engines dont seem to like dynamic links (the ones containing "?").\n\n3. Submit your site to top search engines like Yahoo, Google, and MSN.\n\n4. Submit your site to good directories like Yahoo, DMOZ.org, zeal.com, etc.\n\n5. Request webmasters of other sites who whould be intersted in your contents to link your site.\n\n6. Include the URL of your site to the signature of your e-mail.\n\n7. If it is a blog then register blog search engines like blogwise.com and technorati.com.\n\n8. Create an RSS feed and submit it to popular RSS feed readers like yahoo - may like to use pingomatic.com for it.\n\n9. Never use a spamming technique like over stuffing some keywords on your web page.\n\nPlease remember, it take time to build traffic - say about six months of focussed effort.\n\nBest of luck!!
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that's because ur probably not using the exact phrase option on adv. search. also, search engines are based on most linked or something, so unless the preson is on a popular site, it'll be really low on the list
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To be listed highly on Google, try to get a high page rank for your site of at least 5. [The Page Rank is what determines how highly a site is indexed in Google, and it ranks from 0-10, with 10 being the highest]. You can increase Page Rank in several ways:\n\n1. Get many people to link to your site, whether in a link exchange, or by just producing content so good, people voluntarily link to it. The higher the Page Ranks of the sites linking to you, the more Page Rank your site will get and the higher it will be ranked.\n\n2. Have the most important headings on your site be in a <h1> tag. For example, if you have a page about fixing automobiles and it's titled "How to Fix Cars", then format it like this: <h1>How to Fix Cars</h1>. If the size is too big for you, you can use CSS to reduce it.\n\n3. And lastly, make sure your content and page title are keyword rich.\n\nGood luck!
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One of the best things to do is submit your site to the most popular website directories. If your site is accepted to the Yahoo! Directory or DMOZ, it will provide another way for users to find your site, not to mention the search engines will all be able to find and index your site.
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You can user various online tools to select the relevant keywords for your site, you can try overture keyword suggestion tool or digitalpoint keywords sugesstion tools\nhttp://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion\nhttp://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
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First off, when adding your link to search engines, don't stop at just the top ten or just five of them. I have a personal website and it is listed in over 1500 search engines. The question isn't why the answer to it though is simple enough. Each direct link that you have coming into your site gives you a better chance at having a higher page rank. You see your page rank at:\n\nhttp://www.checkpagerank.com/\n\nPage rank is calculated based on the importance of the website. Each link going into the website is a vote counted towards your page rank. It also helps to have higher page ranking websites link to your site as well.\n\nIn total the more links you have going to your site, the more importance your website has on the Internet as a whole.\n\nDon't stop. Keep submitting your links to every search engine that you can possibly find. If you need more help you can contact me if needed but I'm sure you can figure that out. Finding search engines to submit your site to is easy.\n\nFind people who are willing to exchange links. Or, otherwise known as reciprocal linking. It's best to find people willing to trade links with your site that are around the same area of expertise. Another words, you wouldn't want to trade links with someone that has a website based off of tractor supplies when your website is based solely upon homeade fudge. If you had a food website, you would want more food websites linking to it.\n\nTo arrange all of your reciprocal links on your site, it's best to make a page called 'Links' to put all the links on that page. Remember, it's not only search engines that get your website listed at the top. Reciprocal linking is another part of that.\n\nThere are a lot of other gimics you can use to get links to your site, but to give a suggestion on how to start..\n\nThink of it like this, people using the Internet are bugs or flies and your website is a spiderweb. You want to make the biggest spiderweb you could possibly make. There's two major ways in doing that. \n\nBy word. Tell people and have them tell other people and have those people pass the word.\nBy links. Links are everything. People spend an average of 2 minutes per website when surfing, give or take that is an average amount of time. The more links you have coming into your website, the more people will acknowledge your website as value of importance.\n\nTo read more on page ranking you can go here for a vast amount of information. I believe that this page should have the answers to many questions you might still have.\n\nhttp://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/
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Improving the keywords in your content might not have an effect.  Google, for one, counts how many quality links are linking to your site and uses that and a bunch of other stuff to determine ranking.  I'd do two things: get people to link to your site using verbose pages and like you said, add more content to your site.\n\nYou might even stop by http://www.webmasterworld.com/ and take a look at what they've had to say.  Lot of experts there.
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1) Submit your URL to major search engines.\nFor google go to \nhttp://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=\nand\nhttp://base.google.com\nfor yahoo go to\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htm\nfor msn it is \nhttp://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx\n\n2) Add meta tags..i.e. keywords describing your website in meta tags.\n3) add more incoming links to your website from other websites.\n4)Share your website links with similar sites.\n5) do have a sitemap.\n6) prefer static html wherever possible.\n7) One tip, which is less known that make a lot of pages like your index or default page and have hidden links to them all over your website
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It can take anywhere from 3-4 weeks to 3-4 months for a site to be indexed by search engines.\n\nThere are things you should be aware about like good content, good structure, use of META tags in the HTMLs head section.  Choosing appropriate keywords and having relevant content to the keywors that you have chosen.  Inbound links from relevant sites and outbound links to relevant sites.  These are all contributing factors in your websites visibility.\n\nYou can also submit for a fee or for free into an appropriate category in the Yahoo directory.  You can also submit to various other directories.  These also increase your site's visibility.
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news on your web site. some services will pay you\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=news+on+your+web+site\n\nyou should try several of these. the free ones have a bad habit of not loading half the time or loading very slowly.\n\n★★ HELP WITH SEARCHING ★★\n\n◙ I used to have so much trouble finding what I wanted. That's because I didn't know the best methods for filtering my searches. Now I rarely have trouble finding what I want. Thanks to a great web site called GoogleGuide. Click on the "Novices Click Here" button to read about Google's fantastic search syntax. Yahoo has some of these operators too. But not even close to the amount that Google has. Below are a few examples.\n\nsite:briefcase.yahoo.com (mp3)\nintitle:?parent directory? (mpg|avi|wmv|mov) "strauss"\ninurl:forum intitle:recipes intext:cookies\n\n☞ http://www.googleguide.com/\n\n◙ Some of what you will learn at the GoogleGuide was used to create the following special search tools.\n\n☞ http://www.soople.com/\n\n◙ Compare Yahoo and Google search results in side-by-side frames here.\n\n☞ http://www.gahooyoogle.com/\n\n◙ You'll get pretty much the same tutorial as the GoogleGuide has by reading the first few chapters of this book.\n\n☞ http://tinyurl.com/6zx2\n\n◙ Here are two more great sites to help you.\n\n☞ http://tinyurl.com/qey8v\n☞ http://tinyurl.com/2ywye\n\n◙ You shouldn't rely on just one search engine. There are many really good ones and they don't all have the same things in them. One might have links to HTML sites etc. and another might not. There are currently 800,000 search engines. Most of them are specailty search engines. Here are several hundred generalized search engines. Plus a few specialized search engines I threw in for my own use.\n\n☞ http://dwight.clickthesky.com/search/\n\n◙ Google is the very best full-text search engine. But when you want a much deeper search you should use the number one cluster search engine.\n\n☞ http://www.vivisimo.com/\n\nIf you are in a really big hurry you can search many search engines at once by using meta search engines. These will give you the top-ten most-relative results of each engine they search.\n\n☞ http://www.ask.com/\n☞ http://www.msn.com/\n☞ http://www.dogpile.com/\n☞ http://www.altavista.com/\n☞ http://www.webcrawler.com/\n\n◙ Here is a way to search many different search engines from a single portal. I use this everyday to research your questions before answering them. Select a resource from the dropdown menu, type in your keywords, and click search.\n\n☞ http://www.searchalot.com/
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There is a whole cottage industry to "get you to be the first in a search engine"... It is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Search Engine Marketing (SEM).\n\n- Do not under any circumstances hire a company that guarantees the first position.  Such claims are certainly will get you banned from the largest and most important search engines.\n\n- PPC or pay per click programs may drive traffic to your site, but will not "raise" your site within search engine listing.\n\n- Surprisingly studies have shown that the first position is often ignored!  If you get on the top of the first page, "above the fold"( you show up without having to scroll down), you are gold!\n\nSearch engine positioning depends very much on the search engine, and what type of algorythm they use to rank web sites.\n\nThe primary factors in most engines are content and authority.  Content refers to articles and documents which are unique and specially related to the key phrase or word to which you want your site to be on top.  Authority refers to how well your site is linked - that is how many good sites within the same topic, link to you.\n\nYou might want to revisit "why" you want to be high on that search engine list...  To drive traffic? If that is the case, then concentrate on the root, which is getting more traffic to your site and not solely on position in a search engine.  Advertising in that case makes more sense.\n\nThe de facto authority on this information is WebmasterWorld.  This site provides detailed discussions on various search engines and how to promote your site.