Submit Express Newsletter #27
July 17, 2000
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1- Intro
2- Search Engine Optimization Tips
3- Search Engine News : Excite Updated Website
Look and Ranking Algorithm
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1-
Intro
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keywords.
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takes a lot of hard work and research. In this issue
we decided to go
back to the basics and give you some general tips on how to
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2-
Search Engine Optimization Tips
We have
been publishing this newsletter to provide our readers with
the
latest search engine placement tips and techniques.
For those who want
to improve their own rankings, it is essential to go back
and read every
single issue of our past newsletters at:
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The important thing to know is that search engines all work
differently,
and they all have different algorithms for ranking pages.
What may work
on one search engine may or may not work in others.
However, most
search engines generally work the same way and use similar
methods to
rank pages. Below are some general ranking factors that most
search
engines use:
- Title Tag: One of the most important ranking factors
in most search
engines is the Title Tag. The Title tag appears on the bar
on top of the
browser and is the headline for your listing in the major
search
engines. Do a search in AltaVista for any keyword and you
will find that
almost all results in the top 10 have this keyword in their
Title Tags.
We recommend including your most important keywords in the
title tag of
your site. We also recommend making your title about 5-10
words long.
- Meta Tags: Contrary to popular belief, Meta Tags
are not the secret to
getting your sites ranked higher. Only a few search
engines will even
look at Meta Tags anymore, and even then Meta Tags are not
the only
ranking factor. We have seen many sites get on top of the
search results
without Meta Tags. However, we still recommend that
you use Meta Tags.
For your description Meta tag, you should use maximum of 255
characters
or about 2-3 sentences and include some of your keywords in
there. Also,
try to make this as catchy as you can. This is what will be
displayed in
the search engines.
For your keyword Meta Tags, we recommend using around 30 keywords
at
most. We recommend using a few 2-3 term keywords in the keyword
Meta Tag
section. Single term keywords are very competitive and less
descriptive,
which will not result in more traffic or higher ranking.
However, do
not in any way repeat any of your keywords, and if they are
in a
combination of other words, do not repeat the same word more
than 3
times.
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Additionally, your webpage editor should have an option to
include Meta
Tags.
- Page Body Content: We recommend using a minimum of
100 words on your
page content and using your keywords 2-6 times for every 100
words. Use
your most important keywords toward the top of your page in
the first
few sentences. We recommend using some keywords in links
and large
texts or <h1> Heading Text. Include keywords in the
image ALT tags and
in a COMMENT tag. Keywords used in these areas will improve
your site's
ranking for those keywords in some search engines.
- Link Popularity: Many top search engines now use
this ranking
algorithm, including AltaVista, Excite, Go.com, Google and
Inktomi based
search engines. The more people linking to you, the higher
your points
you will get. We have discussed link popularity many times
in the past
issues. Please see our July 1999 and Nov 30, 1999 issues at:
http://destinationsite.com/c?c=113012.37409.0.58416.9
- Click Popularity: Some top search engines use this, including
DirectHit (which powers Lycos and HotBot) and Snap.
The idea is that
the more people clicking on your listing in the search results,
the more
points you will get toward ranking higher. However, you cannot
simply
click on your own listing hundreds of times hoping that your
ranking
will improve. Search engines can detect this, based
on your IP address
you have logged in from, and will not improve your ranking.
- Term Vector: We mentioned this ranking factor in
our April 17, 2000
issue and that AltaVista was going to use this. Excite
also uses a
variation of this algorithm. The idea is that your main
page and all
your sub-pages will be indexed to determine a main category
or keyword
for your site. This is also known as a "Theme".
It may be determined
that your site may have one or more Themes. Once your site's
Themes or
Term Vectors have been determined, your ranking for related
keywords may
improve. It is important to stay away from unrelated
keywords to your
site on your page content, because you don't want the search
engine to
categorize your site under the wrong Term Vector. Many
sites that have
sub-pages covering various topics may not do too good.
We mentioned in the April 17 issue that we were going to give
you more
info about Term Vectors whenever we find out more. One
of our readers
sent us the link below for an article written by AltaVista,
Google and
Compaq staff that goes into technical details how Term Vectors
work.
Again, this is a very technical article, so I would recommend
that you
skip reading it if you are a beginner.
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As you can see, it is not easy to optimize your site for all
search
engines and it is a lot of hard work. Since all search engines
use
different variations of the above ranking factors, we recommend
creating
"doorway" pages for your site. Doorway pages are pages that
will have a
similar look to your main page, or they may just be simple
entry pages
to your main page. On each doorway page, we recommend using
different
Title, Meta Tags and page content to cover different possible
ranking
algorithm variations. However, we do not recommend abusing
this, as too
many doorway pages may be considered spam and result in a
loss of your
listing or rankings. We recommend creating about 10-15 doorway
pages at
most.
Also, some search engines such as Excite have limit of how
many pages
they will accept. Excite has a 25 page limit per domain.
When optimizing for the search engines, it is very important
to know the
rules for each search engine, because many things you do can
be
considered spamming and may actually result in a loss of your
listing or
ranking. In our June 1999 issue, we wrote an article
about some common
reasons why your site may be rejected. You can read it at:
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3-
Search Engine News
Excite:
Excite has changed the look of its search results and has
done a major
upgrade recently. They have updated their ranking algorithms.
The Link
Popularity algorithm will now also look at the quality of
the links to
your site - meaning, if a site that is linking to you is itself
more
popular in terms of link popularity, then that has a higher
weight than
just any link. As mentioned above, Excite now uses Term Vectors
as a
ranking factor. Excite gives a hint at this on their site
at a page
titled "Improve Your Site's Ranking":
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Excite does not use the Meta Keyword Tag, but it does use
Meta
Description Tag to pick up your site description for its listings.
Excite uses LookSmart for its category listings. You will
see a link
called "Category Search" on the top and bottom of the results
pages that
will take you to the directory listings.
MSN Search:
MSN search announced that it is closing its paid links program.
The
paid links appeared on the left bar of the search results
page.
Apparently, these did not generate too much click thru for
the
advertisers. MSN Search is offering a refund to its
current clients or
the option to move their balance to GoTo.com. You can
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AltaVista:
AltaVista has upgraded their affiliate program with new features
and
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AltaVista also announced that now it is the second most popular
referring search engine based on WebsideStory's Statemarket.com.
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GoTo.com and Netscape:
Netscape Communications Extends Premier Search Provider Agreement
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LookSmart:
LookSmart has redesigned its website. See details at:
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They have also announced that they have ended the test phase
for paid
submission program. They will now decide on a final format.
For now, we
noticed that the free submissions are back at LookSmart. We
recommend
submitting your site to them as soon as possible, just in
case they
decide not to accept free submissions anymore.
Lycos:
Lycos has now dropped Inktomi as a search provider completely
and uses
FAST Search at www.alltheweb.com instead.
Yahoo and Google:
Yahoo announced that it has completed integration of Google
into its
search results. They have also updated the ranking algorithm
used in the
Yahoo Directory part. You can see details at:
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Yahoo directory search results now use link popularity technology
from
Google to rank pages. So many of the web site ranking results
in Yahoo
have changed.
We have also noticed that the search results from Google displayed
at
Yahoo show slightly different results than the ones on Google
itself.
We don't know the exact reason for this yet, but it may be
that Yahoo
uses a slightly older database or that Yahoo uses a different
ranking
algorithm. We will let you know as soon as we find out
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