PressurePros 248 Report post Posted April 18, 2005 Does anyone know the algorithm a search engine like Google uses? Is getting a top listing possible using meta tags or do you have to pay therm to get top billing? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henry B. 4 Report post Posted April 18, 2005 It's a lot of things, meta tags, keywords, links and what you have on your website. Of course you can pay for top listings but I wouldn't do it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JFife 14 Report post Posted April 19, 2005 Ken, I wish I knew how to post a link--but here are the directions. Go to: www.lhoti.com, and to the Q and A thread: (Country Log Homes, etc.......), about midway through the thread (about 25 posts) is some very good info on this, the best I've heard yet. Still leaves you with a lot of Q's though, jon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLD 14 Report post Posted April 19, 2005 I also run an online business, and can help you with this if you need. Check out my site at http://www.OdorDestroyer.com We are pretty well ranked. The google algorithym has gotten extrememely complex lately. But the #1 weighted item is text links to you containing the keywords you want to rank for. #2 is the keywords prevelence on your page (H1 trumps H5 or <B>). Add as many as you can but don't make the page unreadable by a human. The engines detect excessive keyword use and penalize for it. Meta tags are used by some engines, but not google. The description tag is used, but only if it contains the exact phrase searched for. Otherwise, Google takes a snipped from your page containing the phrase and uses it. Anyway, there are people who make careers of tracking the methods of the SE's. The best thing you can do is write lots of articles 700-1000 words long and using the keywords you want to rank for. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beth n Rod 1,279 Report post Posted April 19, 2005 Engines are based upon algorythms, and different ones will have different algorythms. The most common element, is that they will all look for how many times a word appears in a document (hit density). Some may look for the proximity of the word to other words in your search as well. (proximity searching) Beth Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLD 14 Report post Posted April 20, 2005 Engines are based upon algorythms, and different ones will have different algorythms. The most common element, is that they will all look for how many times a word appears in a document (hit density). Some may look for the proximity of the word to other words in your search as well. (proximity searching) And don't forget that keyword density is just that, a measure of the number of times a keyword appears relative to the other words on the page. To high of a ratio, and you get penalized. Too low of a ratio, and you get outranked by others that are higher than you, but lower than the threshold for "keyword spamming". As for optimizing for various engines, I recommend against putting that much effort into it. Google has over 80% of the search volume now. MANY of the 3rd part engines just buy their SERP's from google directly. And, anything optimized for google also will rank well with the others. Sure, you may not bet the best optimized page at Kandoodle but if you were you wouldn't be best with Google (remember, 80%....) Here's a site that usually has good articles on getting to the top of the engines. http://searchenginewatch.com/ FWIW, my online store (www.OdorDestroyer.com) gets around 35,000 unique visitors each month and around 153,000 page views/month. :lgbounces Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PressurePros 248 Report post Posted April 20, 2005 Nice hit rate! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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