[Cialug] Google Rankings

[Nathan C. Smith]

A few things I learned that were true in the past:

Make sure that descriptive keywords appear in the page titles.

They still seem to key off words that are bolded and in context. 

If your home page content changes frequently Google will re-index you more
often.

If you link to sites make sure they are in context with whatever your page
is about.  If you link to a gardening site from a linux page the link isn't
as good.

If you can bold your site name somewhere that can be helpful.

Images with alt-text can help a lot if the images and text are pertinent to
the topic of the page.

meta-tags and Google spamming don't work.

None of this really helps unless other pages link to you so Google can find
you.

Good luck, it is a black art at best.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave J. Hala Jr. [mailto:dave@58ghz.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:24 AM
To: Cialug
Subject: [Cialug] Google Rankings



I'm finishing up a re-work of my website.  I'd like it to show higher in the
google page rankings.

My understanding is that a site with a higher number of links to other sites
will get a higher ranking.  I also saw some pages that had a <META> tag
embedded with a bunch of key words. Will making improvements in these areas
help?

Any other ideas, other than paying google?

:) Dave
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Open Source Information Systems (OSIS)
Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave@osis.us>
641.485.1606

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