How to Drive Search Engine Spiders to Your Website

Search Engine SpidersSearch engine optimization (SEO) is the process of learning and understanding the search engines and their indexing algorithm in and changing or designing a web site to rank high on user searches. Rank is the relative position in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) for a keyword or key phrase search.

No fancy links, no doorway pages, no spamming techniques can achieve what clean, logical and spam free coding (HTML) can. Here is a quick checklist to drive the search engine spiders to your website.

Search engine optimization coding Checklist:

  • CSS: Using CSS as it simplifies site maintenance.
  • <H1> and <H2> tags: A must. Place your keywords in the HTML header codes <H1> and <H2> tags.
  • Anchor text: Use keyword rich anchor text that best justifies your landing page.
  • Title Tag: Maximum 90 Characters.
  • Keyword tags: Maximum 25 words.
  • Browsing Menu: If you use java script menu include redundant set of text links.
  • Internal Linking: Ensure that you have good internal linkage and no dead pages.
  • Dynamic URLs: In case of dynamic URLs use tools to convert dynamic links into static.
  • The correct way to use newly created static pages is to place links to the dynamic pages on the static pages, effectively submitting the static pages to the major search engines manually.
  • Use HTML Validator (http://validator.w3.org)
  • Other tags: <Strong> & <em> tags perform well than <b> in the eyes of Spiders, without compromising website aesthetics.
  • Avoid placing links in images
  • Avoid Javascript, flash and frames
  • Avoid Dynamic URLs.

Posted under Search Engine Optimization

Google Blog Search Improved

Blog Search – A Google search technology especially focused on blogs which allows the internet users to discover the blogging universe more successfully. No matter, whether you are searching any reviews, political commentary, summer food recipes or anything else, Blog Search allows you to look out what people think on any subject of your choice.Google Blog SearchThe Google Blog Search results shows not just the blogs published via Blogger but also blog results for WordPress, Joomla and for many other blogs that are written in different languages like English, Italian, German, Thai, Swedish, Turkish, Indonesian, Dutch, Russian, French, Spanish and many other languages as well.

Now, Google Blog Search has improved their search service in more effective way. They are now capable of reading links on web pages. If you search for a query like a website URL, Google Blog Search automatically uses the “link:” service and displays the list of all blogs that have backlinked to the website URL presented in your search query.

I will explain you with an example here: If you search for yahoo.com, Google Blog Search will automatically convert your search query to “link:yahoo.com” and displays this search results which is a list of blogs that are linking to Yahoo.com.

Google now introduced some changes in the way they index content from blogs / RSS feeds. As before, they were only capable of using links from RSS feeds to decide the results for “link:” service but now they also consider links that are mentioned on web pages as well very similar to Technorati.

Simply, it means that if another blog say: xyz.com has linked to your blog “my.com” from his sidebar, Google will now display xyz.com in the search results as well when you query for link:domain.com

If there were a Technorati Rank like parameter for Google Blogs Search, almost every blog may have seen major fluctuations in their rank due to this simple change.

Posted under Blogging, News, Search Engine Optimization

This post was written by admin on April 7, 2009

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