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aingaran
February 11th, 2001, 16:19
How do you make your site get ranked ahead of the site already appearing on search engines when searching for a keyword?

I have meta tags...What else is there I can do? I've submitted to most of the search engines.."add url"..

I was wondering, if you guys could kindly suggest anything to increase my spot in the search engines. Thanks...

Are there any meta tags I'm missing? This is what I have between the <head> and </head> Have I made any mistakes or left anything out? Thanks for you help in advance.


<META name="keywords" content="keywords">
<meta name="description" content="description">
<META name="robots" content="ALL">
<META name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<META name="classification" content="Internet">
<META name="distribution" content="Global">
<META name="rating" content="General">
<META name="language" content="en-us">
<META name="copyright" content="My Company">
<meta name="author" content="My Name">
<meta name="authoring.tool" content="NotePad">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
Hobbes
March 4th, 2001, 22:12
Repeat keywords. Some search engines will cut you off for this, it hasn't hurt in some of my sites. Anyway, go and submit your site to a lot of search engines, post on message boards, etc, etc. PUT META TAGS ON ALL YOUR PAGES with apt descriptions for each page.
Steven
March 9th, 2001, 22:30
Yes, you can repeat keywords but the top ten search engines (which is where about 95 percent of the people online go to search) will penalize you for it. They will place you farther down in the list. The best way that I have found to get listed higher in the search engines is to have relavent keywords and make sure they are all used about 3 times on that page. Also, you want a lot of content. Key phrases typically work better because you get more relavent searches (ex: if your keyword is blueberry muffins then when somebody searches for blueberry muffins you are more likely to come up. However, if they look for just muffins it isnt any better.)

You dont want to try to cheat the major search engines too much because that is where most of your traffic comes from and they know almost every trick in the book and will penalize you for it. however, on smaller engines you can use several tricks.


A couple are to enter the title more than once, enter in a bunch of content relavent to your keywords in a input tag. It would look like this: <input type="invisible" content="type in your keywords and stuff here">
that works good because then none of that content will show up on your web page. Also, you can create doorway pages. Look those up for more info, im tired of typing
Cagey
March 10th, 2001, 09:06
also mis spell some of your keywords and break up any phrases into individual key words -- these are not counted as repeats by the search engines:

Example:

blueberry muffins, bluebery muffins, blueberry mufins, bleuberry muffins, blueberry, muffins, bluebery, muffin, muffins.