Posts Tagged ‘weight’

How To Increase Your Site’s Popularity?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

This the question of which the answers you might be searching for hours on the net and getting dissatisfied again and again.

As you might be knowing that of the total of the internet search, Google has a share of 50%, Yahoo of 30% and MSN of 20% leaving other search engines like Altavista, Yamour, etc.

So if you want to increase the popularity of your site, you must, at first, try to increase the Google Pagerank of your site which can be done only after you have got your site in Google’s Directory. And to do this you might fill the add url form provided by google. But don’t do that ‘cos it is not likely to help you!

To add your url you must get your link on other site which has got pagerank. Why, I’ll explain it now; Google searches or crawls to search the required result, it means for example the search word is “weight loss”, so Google would first search an site of that keyword from its directory then search links on that site on that keyword for further results. And you can get indexed in Google within 48hrs. If you ask a site with higher pagerank to put your link on his site for some amount of money.

That would probably an easy way to get your site indexed.

Then lets think of bringing traffic to your site. You can give your site to a PTC site which would give you visitors, but not true visitors. In the eyes of Google the less words your title has, the more weight you gain.

So to get a nice title for your site, I recommend you to download GoodKeywords from www.goodkeywords.com and do research on the main subject of your site. Then get a title with good popularity but less competitors.

Seo:Choosing A Hosting Company

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Choosing the right hosting company is a must in achieving top search engine rankings for several reasons. First, you want to choose a reputable company that has 99.7% uptime or better so that when the search engine spiders and robots make it to your website, your website will be up and operating. If you hosting company tends to have a considerable amount of downtime, then these spiders and robots may just visit your website when it is down and not come back to it for weeks or months.

This is a huge price to pay for being cheap! In this case, being cheap will cost you more money. It is better to choose a hosting company will give you, say 100mb of disc space for your site (most websites come nowhere near to this size and if they do, they are either a major mega website or they have not been optimized for size or speed properly) and the most bandwidth you can get - 30 or 40 gigs, for instance.

If you go with a cheaper hosting site you may get only 10mb of disc space for your site and 1gig bandwidth. The problem with this scenario is that if you go over the disc space or bandwidth limitations, your hosting company will most likely charge you lots more dough. Sometimes a cheaper hosting company will shut your site down if immediate payment is not made. Once again the search engine spider or robot may just pass your by. So it is better to buy more than you need and not have to worry about limitations.

It is also generally a better idea to purchase your domain name at a different place than you have host your website. Some web hosts will do both, but the problem is if you wish to change hosts some website hosts will charge you a hefty transfer fee for you domain name and may take more time than desirable for the transfer. Having your domain name hosted separately gives you more flexibility.

Free hosts can cost you when it comes to search engine rankings. If you have a company like geocities host your website, most likely your website is called www.geocities.com/yoursite.html or some variation. This is not optimal for two reasons. First, if you exceed your bandwidth for the month, this host will shut down your website and put a fancy little splash screen in place of your website stating you have exceeded your bandwidth.

So, if you website is popular, which most likely is your goal, you will spend more time with your website down to customers and search engine spiders and robots. Second, search engine spiders and robots generally give more weight to your homepage than to your subordinate pages. In this case, your homepage is actually geocities.com and your main page is a subordinate page to this homepage. Most search engines will give your subordinate homepage less weight than someone else’s homepage at yoursite.com.

seo:Link Campaigns

Monday, June 30th, 2008

A link campaign is another way to increase your site ranking. One of the things a that a search engine calculates is how many sites in their database are linked to the site that is being optimized. Keep in mind that even though the quantity of sites linked to the site being optimized is important, the quality is probably more important.

If the sites that are linked to the site being optimized are banned by search engines or have negative content, they can actually harm your ranking severely. A good rule of thumb is to avoid controvesial sites such as adult links, gambling, and prescription drugs (unless your site is related), and or sites that are notorious for spamming.

When deciding whether or not to trade links with a particular site, try to find sites that have information relevant to yours. Considerably less “weight” in relevance is given to inbound links from sites that are not related to your site. So, in short, links from quality sites are a must.

Finding quality sites is tedious and risky. Everything from finding high PR sites to getting spam complaints makes this an error-prone task. But, it is necessary, so we scavenged the Internet for the solution.