How can you increase search engine optimization for a web page?
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Build your inbound links.\nMost of the directories online charge a one time fee to review your site and add it to their index.  Here are three of my favorites:\nhttp://www.avivadirectory.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=kahmer\nhttp://www.kahmer.com\nhttp://www.joeant.com
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Search Engines have evolved from the old days where merely submitting your site got it listed.  It can take weeks to see a submission listed nowadays.\n\nThe best ways of getting higher ratings now are:\n1. Pay! (Sad but true)\n2. Get your site linked to by loads of other sites, the spiders (programs that go to websites and then from those sites go to the links to others) search loads of sites each day, the more external sites linking to you the more the spiders come to you and the higher up you go.\n3. Meta Tags, make sure your meta tags on your pages are correctly formatted and relate to your site.\n4. Text relevance, make sure your site contains relevant information.
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if your site is like about cars, then you have to mention the word car at least 50 times because when your site gets spidered by search engines that will show up higher ranking.\n\nBut that doesn't always work anymore.\nTry joining  DMOZ.org and becoming an editor for the category your interested in.\n\nThat way you can see how the sites are ranked.\n\nAlso put a counter on your site that shows which search engines are sending traffic your way. Then you can concentrate on improving the searches.\n\nstef
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For more traffic you need to be high in the search engines when people search for what your website provides.\n\nRead through this excellent tutorial http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php
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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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You should put keywords in meta data (invisible), page title, and in the content body to gain the full potential of search engine optimization.\n\nMeta Data\nPlace the keywords in the meta tag with the head section of your web page.  Be sure to separate each keyword or keyword phrase with commas.  Do not put more than 15-20 keywords in this tag as the search engines will begin ignoring the other keywords.\n<head>\n<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword phrase1, keyword2">\n</head>\n\nTitle\nMany developers and companies make the mistake of putting their company name in the title of the web page.  If you've branded your web site/pages correctly, a user will be able to tell that they are on your site by your logo or other page content.  In the title tag, you should put no more than 5 keywords or keyword phrases.  Also, you should order these keywords in order of importance as the search engines weight the keywords at the beginning greater than those at the end.\n<head>\n<title>Organic Dog Food, Canine Nutrition, Pet Supplies, Pet Health</title>\n</head>  \n\nPage Content\nYou should write the content of you web pages so that the strongest keywords are embedded in the content and these keywords should be relative to the subject of your site (the search engines will be able to tell and could punish your site otherwise).  Try to get the best keywords in the first 200 words on the page.  Google will index the majority if not all of the page, but Yahoo! will only index the first 200 words and MSN also has a limit on how content it indexes on the page.\n\nAlso, you need to utilize semantic HTML.  By this, you should be using the H1 tags for the most important headers, then H2, etc.  Place keywords in these tags.  The search engines will weight the keywords in those tags in descending order.\n<h1>Safe and Healthy Pet Nutrition</h1>\n<h2>Organic Dog Food Expands Your Pet's Life</h2>\n<h3>Soy Products</h3>\n\nFinally, before you put any keywords into your site.  Do a little research.  Google or Yahoo! the keywords that you would like to use and see what listings come up in the search.  View their sites and view their page sources for ideas on other keywords that your site could benefit.\n\n*As a note, do not use trademarked names in your keywords as this could get you banned from the search engines.\nEx.  Wal-mart shouldn't put keywords like Target, Kmart, Meijer, Kroger, Albertson's, etc.\n\nBest of luck with your SEO.  For more information on SEO, visit Search Engine Watch.\nhttp://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/
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Hi, your search engine ranking is based on approximately 130 different factors.  \n\nYour new site(same address) will get ranked accordingly based on your new content and how it relates to your new meta tags(and about 129 other things)... \n\nI am assuming your site has a completely new direction or focus.  If you simply updated your content, your ranking will likely increase.\n\nUnless, you completely blow your keyphrase relevency, and on page factors like that.\n\nAlso, if you have been creating effective backlinks with keyphrases, you will want to go change them to reflect your new focus.\n\nhope that helps...
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Most search engines offer the advanced option to display a greater number of hits per page. In case of Google, 100 hits rather than 10.\n\nSince you know your page address, use text search to find it.
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First make sure you have meta tags on your webpages that reflect the content on your site. This site has great info on how to optimize your webpages for search engines http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/search-engine-optimization.htm This is where I learned how to use my meta tags, keywords and content to get my website the best possible results.\n\nThen submit your URL to Yahoo, Google, etc. Its better to go to each individual search engine and do it yourself than to use a quick submit website. That way you can be sure that it goes through for each search engine (Some search engines do not allow automated programs to submit URLs). You can also improve your visibility on Google by making a sitemap https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login. Yahoo also uses sitemaps.\n\nYou can also improve your rankings by your link popularity. Try submitting your website to directories. Some that have been useful in improving my rankings are: http://www.limerex.com , http://www.tatet.com/ , http://www.slackalice.com/ , http://www.lookdirectory.com/ \nAlso look for websites that have similar content as yours that are willing to trade links with you. Searchbliss has a neat tool called a backlinks finder that helps you find websites that you can submit your link to: http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/back-links-finder.asp\n\nI did all of these things and my website has really good rankings for my targeted keywords.\nBelow is a list of links to a few search engines to submit your URL
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Yes you can!\n\nYou need to understand the basic ideas of search engine optimization. It is not rocket science although there is a lot of outdated and misinformation on the web. Take a look at this tutorial http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php which is up to date and of high quality.
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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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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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If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm \n\nWebmasterWorld.com http://www.webmasterworld.com has different sections that cover various aspects of search engine optimization, and each section is participated in by respected webmasters and even search engine employees (e.g. there's a GoogleGuy that responds to Google topics)\n\nOther resources that can help you get top ranking in the search engines are:\n\nGoogle Press Releases http://googlepress.blogspot.com/ \nMatt Cutts Blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/  (Matt is a Google software engineer)\nDigitalpoint Yahoo Forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6\nSearchEngineWatch's MSN Forums http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm\nTying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/seo.htm\n\nAs for tools to help you get top rankings in the search engine, here are some of the best in the field today\n\nTotal Optimizer Pro http://www.totaloptimizer.com/\nKeyword density tool http://googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php
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Use meta tags in your webpages. Submit your URL to each individual search engine. Find free directories on the internet. Exchange links with websites that have similar content to yours, or that get the same target visitors that youd like to come to your website. Make business cards with your web address. \nYou could try to optimize your website for search engines. I used this site http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/default.htm\nI did all of these things and I get a good amount of traffic to my website, and my traffic has been increasing month to month. All of them were free except for the business cards.
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Get some high-traffic sites to link back to your site. This is the idea behind Google's page-rank algorithm I believe.\n\nYou should also do some research on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Like a keyword in the title or <h1> might carry more weight etc.
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Search engines look at the following factors in ranking websites, though in varying degrees of importance:\n\n- Age of the Content \n- Keyword density \n- How it fares in the results \n- Site structure \n- Backlinks\n\nYour site seems to be very new with domain registered only this March. It will take some time before the engines would actually include your site in their listings, and rank better.\n\nWhat you can do at this point is to improve your on-page factors and build links. Get other sites to link to you. Create the best content you can so other sites will link to you even without you asking them. Send out press releases which is one of the easiest ways to get other websites to link to you.\n\nWith regards to on-page factors, there are many things that needs to be fixed:\n\n1. Put a title on the site (meta tag title). Right now your title only says "Page 1". Create a line between < head > and < /head > called < title >Red Thread Gallery: Fine Asian Art < / title >\n2. In your interior pages such as Gallery, use a better title with your keywords such as  Fine Asian Art Gallery. Keywords are very important\n3. Add your metatags such as META name="description" and META name="keywords"\n\nI suggest you read the following articles to help you learn more about search engines and how you can improve your ranking:\n\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm\nTying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/SEO.htm\nSuccessful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day  http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm
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Try something referred to as a Search Engine.