Thursday, October 28, 2004

Improving Search Engine Rankings

I had a online conversation with Doug from Reality Me about how to improve his search enging rankings. Some of these things I have already pointed out in previous posts, 10 ways to generate traffic and getting your blog site found in search engines.

I have since then submitted my blogs to a number of the Top 55 RSS Sites from Robin Good.

However some of the other things I have found that are working are these as discussed with Doug. (Edited slightly and spelling fixed!)

Need Kava says:
so have you always hosted your blogs yourself or have you ever hosted on blogger? Does one way give you better ranking in google than another?
Need Kava says:
Any idea why http://www.tnlotteryresults.com/blog/ gets ranked first and second on msn and yahoo (for "TN Lottery") while the blog doesn't appear in google under any circumstances.
Jethro the excel guru says:
ok heres what i have learned and its starting to work
Need Kava says:
Its fugly
Jethro the excel guru says:
use keywords metadata in your header and then use those same keywords in the title of your posts
Jethro the excel guru says:
if possible then link to related sites - you do that well but maybe your title posts need work and i haven't looked at your metadata keywords
Jethro the excel guru says:
im already getting stacks of hits for CBR1100 and some other words
Jethro the excel guru says:
heres a web site you can track your rankings in google on - you choose the keywords and site and it will rank them and then track the changes (Note - you will need to create a Google API key for this - they lead you through the process fairly painlessly)
Need Kava says:
very cool. I shall have to commit some time to making the site right
Jethro the excel guru says:
also once you find keywords that turn up often in google searches then try and use them again and again - the additional traffic may convert to readers and repeat visitors.
Jethro the excel guru says:
i get hit for Tramol - a pain killer I used when I broke my collar bone - all the time
Need Kava says:
hehe. I remember that
Jethro the excel guru says:
i also get hit looking for the xray of my broken collar bone
Jethro the excel guru says:
to answer your original question - i only ever hosted my blogs on my own server - don't know if that is different to hosting on blogspot. You would think that Google would automatically spider blogspot blogs seeing as they own Blogger.


Posted by: Jethro | 1:16 AM |