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Tips to enhance your web
current web ranking
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Here are a few tips from Lincolnshire Web Design.
If you already have your own web site and are struggling to get
your ranking on Google improved, here are a few tips you can follow. None of them will cost you anything but your time. The changes to your web are quite subtle, but
will make quite a difference to how your site is ranked.
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Google ranks
web sites in a number of ways, one is by title of your home page. To
improve your ranking, make sure the title of your home page is no more than
12 words long, preferably in groups of two words separated by a comma,
and that you include your main key words in the title of your homepage - don't simply call it 'Home'! |
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Additionally,
keywords are best written in your body text in groups of two, such as
"web design", "corrugated boxes, corrugated cases" and so on. |
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Links to your
web site from other ranked and recognised sites or directories play a key
part in how Google and Yahoo will rank your site. (These are known as
ranked in-bound links). Try to get your site registered with as many good
quality directories as possible. Some are free, others make a small charge.
This is well worthwhile. |
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Make sure all your web sites pages are indexed. A major fault most search engine
optimisers and web designers make is only to optimise the home page. Google ranks pages, NOT web sites. Make sure your home page has direct links to every other page
and optimise each pages text and keywords. You will vastly increase your chances of success. Cool home pages with no links to the rest of your site are no good at
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Google
especially, takes note of changing information on web sites and
typically, you should try to add a page a month, or change the text on at
least one of your pages regularly. Typically, between 200 and 300 words should
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One way to
obtain regularly changing data is by including something called an RSS feed
in your web site. Really Simple Syndication or RSS allows you for example, to
put live news from BBC.co.uk onto your own web site, like we have
(click here) so your automatically,
get updated and changing news information on a daily basis. Google loves this
sort of thing and we have used it to good effect in a number of web sites. |
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Make sure your
web site has its own 'site map'. This makes Google and Yahoo's job of
crawling and indexing your web much easier. Again, this is something most major
search engines look for. This should be linked directly off your home page for best results. |
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Avoid massive amounts of images and moving animations. and use plenty of informative
text. All search engines and especially Google, like text - the more of it the better. Google and MSN especially rank web sites in importance based on the
amount of information they contain. They have no interest in images, fancy backgrounds or moving animations or spinning logo's. 200 words of text is 50 times
better than five images to a search engine. Also, they far prefer web sites to be written in good old fashioned bog standard html rather than Xhtml or Php, so keep it
simple, and use plenty of informative text. |
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Look out for more tips and hints
on this page in future months... |
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