Recommendation to ensure listing on google & other search sites

[hanybanoub]

Hi everyone,

Can anyone help?

I'm looking to advertise my boss's website, we are using google adwords, but we would like to make certain our site comes up, not in the sponsored list to the right but in the regular search results, when someone does a search on our topic (real estate in cardiff eg).

What techniques can I use to submit the site to the various search engines so they can list it near the top of their searches?

I know this is quite a big thing now and has a science of its own I'm sure LOL

If anyone can offer some advice I'd be very grateful 🙂

CHEERS

 

[Davegod]

- Use appropriate "keywords" meta
- Have a good, appropriate "description" meta
- have relevant/descriptive url
- have a GOOD site so people visit it often and other good sites link to it.

'bout all I know, not much. If you try to fark naughtily with the google ranking they may well blacklist you btw

 

[4dm]

There are 2 ways to get listed on google.

1) Enter your site URL in their "list my site" box and pray http://www.google.com/addurl.html
2) Place links to a lot of other sites, and get currently listed sites to link to you. Even if you add a link in your profile or something like that (doesnt have to be visible to the eye, just to a bot).

#2 is really the only way to get listed on the first page

Hope this helps

 

[BZeto]

Use key words but dont flood your page with them. Use them wisely along with different 'iterations'.

 

[everman]

Take a look at the Nigritude Ultramarine competition. They took a random phrase "Nigritude Ultramarine", and whoever ends up on top wins.

 

[notfred]

Keywords and meta tags don't count for jack sh!t on Google.

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: notfred
Keywords and meta tags don't count for jack sh!t on Google.

Meta tags, no. But why wouldn't keywords? Obviously if you search for say, spring water, it will display pages that mention 'spring water' in their text and not 'mortgage loans'...

 

[drag]

The best way to get listed at the top is to have information that is very usefull and relevent to whatever your topic is. That way you get lots of people to link to you and thus google bots finds your website over and over again, so it gets a higher ranking.

Key words only go so far. The days of loading up webpages with keywords in "invisible" text to manipulate search engines is long gone.

However you can't depend on google. Everyonce and a while they change some algorithms and methodology around a bit to make their search work better and sometimes sites that were previously on the front page end up getting shoved back a couple pages. Sometimes people feel slighted by this and there have even been attempts at lawsuites because a change can make or break a small company.

The way to ensure plenty of hits on the front page is thru the adword stuff, which is their purpose. It actually works quite well, if you beleive the reports. Seems people will pay more attention to ads if they are relevent and pleasent vs big annoying pop-ups. Go figure.

Other search engines work differently. For instance some places will accept money for higher rankings, but on the other hand people don't use those engines as much as google because the easily manipulated responses are usually fairly worthless.

 

[hanybanoub]

MANY thanks everyone I will put all of this info to work ASAP

I understand that nowadays there are programs that will submit your site for you to the search engines...is that correct?

How do the 'big boys' do it? (MS, IBM, etc) Do they hire companies/run major programs to do this for them?

Any ideas?