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Qustions:
How can I find the best Keyword Marketing Phrase for my website?
How many times should I use my Keyword Marketing Phrase in my
website?
How long should I make my web page's Title, Description, &
Keywords Meta Tag?
How can I make my graphics count toward my Keyword Marketing
Phrase?
How long does it take for my website to be listed in all of the
Search Engines?
How often do I need to submit my website to the Search Engines?
Which Search Engines do I need to submit my website to?
Answers:
Q:How can I find the best Keyword Marketing
Phrase for my website?
A:Think about the most general word to describe your
online business.
For example, if you were a printing agency, then your general word
would be "Print" or "Printing." If you sold
different kinds of candles and soaps, you would want to search
under "Candle" and "Soap" to find which item
is the most popular on the internet to decided which keyword is
best to use sell your website with.
Once you have decided on the correct keyword that best describes
your site you must search for the best Keyword Marketing Phrase
for your website. This can be done by using Overtures Search Term
Suggestion Tool. It will give you the most used Keyword Marketing
Phrases that are associated with the specific keyword you felt
best described your web site.
Q: How many times should I use my Keyword
Marketing Phrase in my website?
A: The "Number" of times you use your
Keyword Marketing Phrase in your website has nothing to do with
your web page's ranking. It is the "Percentage" of times
you use your Keyword Marketing Phrase verses the number of other
words you have on your web page.
There is no magic percentage number to list your Keyword Marketing
Phrase on your site. If there was every web page would be using
their Keyword Marketing Phrase the same number of times which
would be a monopoly and have no value to the Search Engines.
I tell people to write their web page, sales presentation, or
article the way they would naturally write it. Then look over it
again the following day rereading what you wrote and find out
where you can best use your Keyword Marketing Phrase within the
general text of your web page. The closer you have your Keyword
Marketing Phrase to the BEGINNING of your web page the higher your
web page will be ranked in the Search Engines.
Q: How long should I make my web page's Title,
Description, & Keywords Meta Tag?
A: Different Search Engines will read different
amounts of characters in your web page's Title Description and
Keywords Meta Tag.
As for your "Title", the Search Engines will read
between 60 and 150 characters. The average number of characters in
your Title that are read by the Search Engines is 70. I always
tell everyone to write their Title using only 70 characters. Once
you write your 70 character Title continue writing it until you
fill up the remaining 80 characters for Search Engines that can
read 150 characters in your Title.
When it comes to writing your web page's "Description"
the Search Engines will read anywhere from 150 to 250 characters.
That is why I recommend to people that they focus on writing a
good compelling Description for their web page within the first
150 characters of their Description Tag and then continue writing
a good compelling Description until you have used up the remaining
100 characters that some Search Engines will read.
Many of the Search Engines on the internet never read a web pages
Keyword Meta Tag. As for the few Search Engines that still pay
attention to your Keywords Meta Tag, the largest number of
keywords they will read is 15 words.
Q:How can I make my graphics count toward my
Keyword Marketing Phrase?
A:Keep in mind the Search Engines can not READ
graphics like humans SEE graphics. That is why it is better to put
the text below graphics; instead of making the name of the
graphics actually be part of the picture.
However, if you insist on making the names of your graphics
actually part of your picture, you can use the text for that
graphic as the "Alt" text that appears on the screen
whenever someone places their mouse over that image. You can also
name that image specifically by its actual names instead of a
common phrase such as "Picture1".
Q:How long does it take for my website to be
listed in all of the Search Engines?
A:Each Search Engine has a different time frame
for listing new websites in their database. It takes different
amounts of time to have your website listed in different Search
Engines. It also takes different amounts of time to be listed with
them depending if you pay to be listed in their database or if you
want them to automatically find your website.
If you are paying to be listed in the Search Engines database then
it can take anywhere from 48 hours to 7 days depending on which
Search Engines you are paying to be listed with. If you submit
your web page without paying to be automatically listed, it can
take anywhere from 3 to 6 weeks.
Q:How often do I need to submit my website to the
Search Engines?
A:There is no need to submit your website to the
Search Engines more than one time. Once you are in their database
of web pages, resubmitting your web page to the Search Engines
again will not help rank your website higher.
The only time you need to resubmit your web page to the Search
Engines is when you have edited your web page and changed your
Title, Description, or general text you have on your web page.
Resubmitting is the only way to guarantee the Search Engines will
notice the changes you made to your website the next time that
their Search Engine Spider checks your web page for updates or
changes it needs to take note of.
The best way to find out if you are listed in the Search Engines
is to ask the Search Engines to search for ......
www.YourDomain.com ...... If they show your website in their list
of results that means you are listed in their database and there
is no need to resubmit your web page unless you have made changes
to it and you want them to take note of those changes.
If the Search Engines do not suggest your website in their
results, by asking them to search specifically for your own
website Domain Name, that means you are not currently listed in
their database and you need to resubmit your web page.
Q:Which Search Engines do I need to submit my
website to?
A:Often people think they need to submit their
website to each Search Engine they want their website to be listed
in. This is not the case!
The only places that you need to submit your website to are the
human powered Directories such as such as Yahoo.com, DMOZ.com. The
reason you need to submit your web page these Directories is
unless you tell them that you have a website out there on the
internet they will never know about you and will never list your
website in their database.
It is not necessary to submit your website to the Search Engines
is because the Search Engines have their very own Search Engine
Spider that automatically crawls all around the web looking for
new web pages to list in their database. That is why all of the
Search Engines have thousands upon millions of more web pages in
their Database than the Directories.
However, just because the Search Engines will eventually find your
website on their own does not mean it is a bad idea to submit your
website to them to insure they notice you do have a website on the
internet. Any Search Engine Optimization Specialist will always
resubmit their clients web page to the Search Engines whenever
they update their clients web page.
Q.
When Will I Start Seeing Results?
A. Unfortunately, search engine optimization
includes a lot of "hurry up and wait" time. However, if
you have diligently applied effective search engine optimization
techniques (such as the ones laid out in this very site!), you
shouldn't have too horribly long to wait. The process not only
depends on your efforts, but also on which submission process you
have chosen. If you have decided to use a pay-for-inclusion
service (see link for an explanation of Google's services), the
wait will be expedited. If you have not, then there is no
guarantee when your site will show up.
If your site has already been on the Web for some time, and is
already listed in all of the major directories, then you will
probably begin to see improvements in your search engine rankings
within 4-6 weeks.
If your site is not listed in the major engines and directories,
then taking the time to submit it will have a significant positive
impact on your rankings.
Q.
What are Meta Description Tags??
A. The meta description tag is intended to
provide a brief description of your site which can be used by
search engines or directories. This description is vital; because
this is what will show up in search engine results, and can have a
major effect on whether or not the user clicks through to your
site. A meta description tag is meant to be a short and sweet
summary of your site's purpose for living, and therefore you need
to make it as inviting as possible.
Q.
What is the most used search engine?
A. Google is by far the most used search engine.
It provides search results not only on it's home page, but powers
other search engines' results as well. Google claims to have
indexed over 3 billion pages, but in reality, that number is
probably too small. More than 300 million searches a day filter
through Google's fingertips
