New Website and Getting High Traffic Google Page Rankings
Hi I am looking to set up my own personal website with its OWN Domain
any one know of some descent value for money hosting companies?
As for web design Templates whats the best route to take.
When I sign up to an agreement is it for a minimum of 12 months
contract?
Whats VERY important is getting my Google Page Rankings High so I can
get traffic to it
experiences if any:) ?
Heidi
Google page rankings....Have relevant, useful, well written content.
Advertise your site to interested parties so that it becomes visited and
linked to, especially by well respected sites.
Rankings take time to evolve, don't expect instant results.
Joy
time, as in years of constant upgrading to your site, and plenty of others
linking to you. There's no quick fix, no matter what these pseudo
scientific SEO jokers tell you.
Steve
What about google.nz? Surely this is for local content and page rankings
should reflect pertinent content quite quickly, at least that is what I
found.
Joy
Most importantly, have relevant, high quality content. This will encourage
people to link to you for the right reasons, which is what Google's entire
PageRank algorithm tries to ensure is happening.
Use Google site maps.
You are better off writing the html by hand than using a program that
generates it for you, at least until you understand how html markup works at
a basic level, because you will learn a shitload more that way.
Get help from alt.html, alt.html.critique and
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets. Don't crosspost when it's not
necessary, use the relevant group only. Use Google Groups to search the
archives for those groups before asking a question because it's probably
been asked before.
Keep your html clean and easy for Google to parse -- try and use semantic
markup, which means html with css, not tables for layout. Mark lists up as
lists (<ul>/<ol>), headings up as headings (<h1><h2>etc.), paragraphs of
text up as paragraphs of text (<p>) and once you've done that use CSS to
adjust the look and feel. Keep the look of the site simple until you're
comfortable with the technology.
Find a text browser or a browser that can display sites as plain text (Opera
is good, View->Style->User Mode, Emulate Text Browser) because that shows
you pretty much how Google sees your site.
Also, try viewing your site with JavaScript turned off, because Google AFAIK
doesn't bother to parse JavaScript when it crawls, so anything on your site
that relies on JS won't be seen by Google.
If you replace text with images make sure you provide good alt text.
use text and ordinary links so that google can read it,
title and h1 tags, and the first paragraph, are important
as are keywords.
google seems to push new websites higher than old one so
don't be suprised to come lower in searches results after
a few weeks.
--
Bye.
Jasen
Over what period? For example, I run a community based website. 2 years
ago I was getting 1500 page hits a month ( I dump most of china and korea
as they're just trying to hack in or the figures would be a lot higher ).
Since then, it's been revamped, and is generally kept current. Even over
the last year, you can see the growth has been steady. Look at
http://www.diamondharbour.org.nz/bbclone/show_time.php?lng=en and you'll
see what I mean. Even so, you'll often find us ( with the old .net suffix
) below Black Cat when you google for Diamond Harbour - depending which
server you hit - as their website has been around for a few years longer
than ours.
This is the only way to get sustainable growth, without paying these
pumping companies loads of money... they always get caught by google in
the end, then you get blacklisted.
The OP was after their own personal website, so why is the google ranking
and traffic volume so important anyway? Ego?
Just my findings, and $0.02,
Steve
Lovely pages. I googled your page 'Diamond Harbour' and it came up top of
the listings. 'Diamond Harbour New Zealand' came in below Black Cat.
'diamond harbour site:.nz' did not come up within the first twenty listings
on google.co.nz. I think you should use 'New Zealand' on your first page.
For me, traffic is not so important as getting the pages seen by those who
will benefit by them.
Joy
> Lovely pages. I googled your page 'Diamond Harbour' and it came up top of
> the listings. 'Diamond Harbour New Zealand' came in below Black Cat.
> 'diamond harbour site:.nz' did not come up within the first twenty listings
> on google.co.nz. I think you should use 'New Zealand' on your first page.
> For me, traffic is not so important as getting the pages seen by those who
> will benefit by them.
> Joy
Glad you like it - I think it's looks a bit dated, but I've probably seen
it more often than you! Good point about the NZ bit... there's another
Diamond Harbour in India, and we do get a few links from there.
Steve