SEO
Get Noticed By Search Engines
1. Research keywords
- Criteria for choosing keywords:
- Choose around 16: including variations on a word, and perhaps misspellings.
The description also includes the keywords. The order of the keywords matters.
It also very much matters how many times the keywords appear in the text of the pages: especially in the first 200 or so words of the page.
It also matters how many pages there are on the site: and how much text in the site is relevant to the keywords.
Submitting the site to search engines, obviously. Search engines do not see a site at all unless it is referenced from another site, or it is submitted. They keep a literal record of your site.
Driving traffic to the site is huge – updated content (that’s why a blog is great), and quantity of content. Get other relevant people to link to and mention your site – especially mega sites such as wikipedia.
Could also try universities and other large organizations. To find out which sites get the most hits, check out this listing.
Sites that have the same keywords as your site indicate to the search engines what your site is about.
- How Search Engines Notice Sites
- Google does not access pages by meta tag, or index them by it by default. Google (and other search engines) index sites only when they are regularly submitted (around every 6 months or so): and they constantly update their "catalog" of sites. The site needs to be repeatedly submitted. It takes from 6 weeks – 3 months to take effect, depending on the search engine.