Search Engine Placement
Articles
This page of references and resources provides free search engine secrets to submit,
monitor and improve your search engine placements or positions.
We've added tips for search engine submissions and noted sites and software to monitor
your search engine positions. These are just as important as the design of the site. Use
the links below to find the exact topic you wish to explore to increase visibility and
traffic to a web site.
This all started with a simple article called Webmaster's
and Search Engines: A Love Hate Relationship I was searching for pegasus and
was having such a hard time I just had to know how search engine placement, positions,
ratings or rankings, take your pick, were decided!
All the resources and references for the tips and tutorials to increase traffic and
visibility are linked by topic in the header and T's tutorials are linked below.
Webmaster T's Search Engine Secrets and Tutorials
Tips for Good Search Engine Ratings and
Placement
Much of the information is from the search engine placement articles listed under useful
placement articles. This article condenses much of the information into this article by
Webmaster T.
Search Engine Submission Tips
Webmaster T has put together some tips for preparing to submit your web site or web sites
to search engines and directories.
A Strategy to Improve Rankings or
Placement at Specific Search Engines Webmaster T discusses his strategy to
raise his rankings at specific search engines.
A Strategy for Finding
Quality Reciprocal Links
Included in this article is a tutorial by Jim Wilson webmaster at Virtual Promote on how to use search engines to
find quality reciprocal links. Although it is primarily a web site promotion tutorial it
is included here because it can be used in conjunction with the article above to save you
some research time.
Search Engine Reference Page
The table of importance will demonstrate where to concentrate your efforts to raise
placement. The 12 main search engines are now on the promote site in the Mega List. The nested table was a real live
wire and made managing the page a chore.
WebPosition Agent
You'll see lots of links to the shareware download of this fine product. Webmaster T's has
been putting this through the grinder and you can read the review and decide for your self. For those
that qualify there is a free report you can get with the product.
- Webmaster T has also written a report on how to use WebPosition effectively. He details
what he believes to be one of the best strategies he has come up with so far for finding
reciprocal links!! It's only available when you download
WebPosition shareware from the new dealership he has set up.
We have updated the Placement Managers evaluations.
Pay close attention to did-it, unless you are a lover of e-mail (wanted or otherwise). I
strongly suggest you check this out before you use this service for anything. Free lunches
sometimes are known to cause indigestion.
Search Engine Secrets or Position Secrets? What Secrets?
For those of you who have used the methods in the previous articles this is a refining of
the method and update to the articles. All of the major engines are included.
Updating this information is big job so I'll be continuing this in the newsletter. The
reason is they change so often that it is more useful to have a section in the newsletter
devoted to search engine info.
Spamdexers Page of Shame Webmaster T's
personal contribution to stopping spamming of search engines. Any particular parties
upsetting you? Report them and T will put them on the page and report them to the engine
and their clients! Remember if you can't see it on the page IT'S SPAM!
Meta Tag Tutorial
This is some times referred to as the meat tags page due to a few spelling errors
and my reliance on spell checkers.;).
I did manage to demonstrate a banner rotation method in a frame using a looped meta
refresh. Several other other meta tags are explained and demonstrated as well.
Meta Tag TutoriaI Pt.II
Webmaster T passes on a few tips and some tool suggestions for easy writing of killer meta
tags. |
New
Gateway Pages There has been a lot of talk
about "Gateway Pages" so Webmaster T did a little tutorial about them. These are
an excellent way to get the most out of updates to your site.
Updates
Reference Page The latest information on
search engine traffic and lead times for listings.
Coming Soon
Webmaster T is also looking into adding a forum to this page so he can answer some
questions as he has time.
Useful Search Engine Placement Articles
The sites in this list were primary sources of information for my overview of search
engine placement and are excellent resources if you want to explore this further.
Search Engine Watch.Com Formerly known as The
Webmasters Guide to Search Engines. Loads of links and good explanations of how search
engines work and how to use them. The old site is still up but this one is much easier to
navigate for specific information.
Deadlock.com Mr Rhodes has updated his
pages and they are an excellent resource for search engine placement information.
Search Engine Tutorial Great tutorial and
information on how webmasters can raise positions at the various search engines.
Search Engines This is the best
overall article that I have found on the net. It covers everything from how to query for
the best results to how to get the best placement for your listing. Very useful for
researchers and web promotion.
Cnet A good article on
searching for and how to improve search engine positions or ratings.
Inc.Com
Another article from the online version of the zine. Good how to promote article featuring
information on search engine placement.
Spiders Apprentice Never too much
information on this topic. You'll find a little information on each of the major search
engines here.
Choosing Search Engine Keywords
bruceclay.com A great tutorial for
picking your keywords using the top ten in your
category.
200 Top Searched Words at Yahoo A
great list of words to check out for promotion purposes. Get this #1 was sex and Pamela
Anderson was #12 does that tell you anything!!!!
John Labovitz's List of E-zines John
lists the top 80 keywords used for searching his list of zines. If you have a zine or
publish articles this is a good resource.
Meta Tags
Marketingsuite.com This is the first
addition to this index in over a year!!This site has tools to do almost every possible
check and improve your search engine positions.
Meta Medic Use this resource
to check to be sure your meta tags are being fully utilized and fall within the safe
repetition of keywords.
Virtual Promote A good tutorial
on meta tag and title use for a good search engine placement.
Make Meta Tags I wasn't
sure where to put this in the tools or here as you see I chose this category. Beginners
not sure of these should utilize this until they have them down pat. Better this than
nothing!
Spiders and Meta tags More info on
this important subject.
Stars.Com An article on meta
tags giving who and how answers to how they are used by the engines to index a site.
General Search Engine Information
Webcrawler A faq
on robots which has information on how they work and how to exclude parts of your site
from them.
robot.txt file
Information on using this file on server to protect parts of your site from
being indexed.
Ranking and Placement Managers
I have evaluated these services and strongly
recommend you read the evaluations before proceeding further.
WebPosition Agent A shareware program that manages placement
and generates reports which are the best bar none. Read T's review of this product it is a real eye opener if you
take promotion seriously.
Did-it You can check your ranking here or they'll mail
you monthly with a list of search engines to let you know if you're still listed. Service
is free if you place an icon on your site.
Position Agent Mails you monthly to let you
know your ranking on a number of engines. There is a good resource for placement
information however they're all here somewhere.
Rank This Improved but still not top of the heap by
any means since your choice of keywords is limited.
scorecheck.com Excellent resource for
promotion info with good results from placement checker. The report is mailed to you and
is similar to WebPosition Agent without the versatility, trend or alert reports.
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