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How to
improve my rankings on Google - Search Engine Submission 101
Google is a fully
automated search engine, which employs robots known as 'spiders' to
crawl the web frequently and find sites for inclusion in the Google
database or index. Google also allows for manual submission, but
generally is not required. Google will normally find your website and
index your website. The question is how does Google determine what
website gets to be ranked #1 out of a zillion other web pages in terms
of keyword or key phrase search.
Google uses a method
called PageRank to rank websites. Like most major search engines, one
of the most determining factors in ranking websites is the title.
Google also looks at other several factors including links, keyword
frequency and keyword density to rank web pages. Important,
high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers
each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean
nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines
PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages
that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far
beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all
aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to
it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
Despite Google
emphasizing link
popularity, it also base ranking by the content of the page. It
requires ALL the words in a query to be physically on the page to
consider it a match. Therefore, be sure to use your Keywords
or Key phrases on the page. Improving your ranking on Google will also
depend on the text on your web pages. Google and most search engine
spiders can't read images. In order to increase your ranking on Google,
you need to add text to your pages.
What
is link popularity? Google says the best way to ensure
that pages in your site are indexed is to build links to them. The
more links that point at your pages, the more likely the page will be
crawled or sometimes rank higher. Google emphasizes link popularity in
ranking websites. Reciprocal links are text or banner links pointing
to a web site, where in return that web site carries a similar text or
banner link pointing to your web site. Improving your link popularity
will also help improve your ranking on Google and other search
engines.
The best way to ensure
Google finds your site is for your page to be linked from lots of
pages on other sites. Google's robots jump from page to page on the
Web via hyperlinks, so the more sites that link to you, the more
likely it is that we'll find you quickly...the better your chance of
improving your ranking on Google.
Title
Page
- The <TITLE> tag of your Web page is arguably the most
important HTML tag or element. All
the search engines consider the keywords in this tag and generally
give those keywords a lot of importance in their ranking system.
Improving your rankings on Google also involves placing emphasis on
the <title> tag. Therefore, if you were to create one
page with a keyword in the title tag, and another page with the same
keyword in the body tag, the one with the keyword in the title will
rank higher in most engines. A good web title should contain no
more than 6 to seven words. Click
here to learn more on how to write an effective page title.
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