Your History and the Search Engines

Your History and the Search Engines
By Vickie J. Scanlon

You create a history with search engines, through your Domain and Website. What do I mean?


Website-Trust Me

If you are a new site, you are asking the search engines to trust you on blind faith. It’s like having a complete stranger come up to you with a plea that you give him/her $100 with the payback option of –“Trust Me, I’ll pay you back”; Would you believe him? I wouldn’t. Translated, you cannot develop trust within a moment’s time-and that is true with a website.

Your website, if it has been around for a while, will have a history. This is what you want. Why? Because with a history-the search engines gain a greater degree of trust, thus, helping with quicker indexing of your pages.


How To Build Trust

If you are a new site, you will need to gain trust. How?
You need a history for both your domain/web pages. And history is gained through time by:
1. Building Quality Web Pages
2. Your Back Links
3. Your Traffic


Sitemap and Trust

But there is another important factor that is needed to improve the indexing of your web pages. It’s called a sitemap. It’s not just the visual sitemap, but also the site map that is used specifically for and by the search engines.

The sitemap helps the search engine to identify you, your website, and the content on your site. If they understand your site, you will have better placement in the search engines.

To conclude, history is important to the search engines, your website’s future, and your bottom line. Work on your website history, and your website future will improve.
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Quick Tips: Search Engines, Users and Your Urls

Quick Tips: Search Engines, Users and Your Urls

Search Engines, for all their intricacies and advancements still have problems accessing unfriendly urls. Huh? What do you mean, you ask?

Let's take a look at two different urls:

1) www.thatsmysite.com/dogs/archive-23123-M08tm.html or

2) www.thatsmysite.com/dogs/training-hints.html

Which do you think is more search engine friendly? If you chose www.thatsmysite.com/dogs/training-hints.html you would be right. It offers two benefits for you-it's search engine friendly and it's user friendly.


Keyword rich urls

For the newbie who is attempting to create their own site, because of money restraints, keep this important tip in mind. When creating a webpage, be sure to make sure that your url is keyword rich. In other words, emphasize your web page with keywords that clearly identifies your web page. This will help you with the search engines, search engine searches and with your users.
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Search Engines-Getting Indexed

What is a website without it's pages indexed? A less traveled site, lost in the maze of the Internet, for one. For a webmaster, a major frustration. Many a webmaster may be mumbling under their breath. "Yeah right, what can I do about it".

Well if you don't have a lot of money, you may want to venture into SEO. You can take the time to learn it yourself (no money route), or you can enlist the help of someone that is a pro in the SEO field (lots of money in my pockets) .

Some people have the money, some have the golden touch and don't need to venture into the SEO realm. But if you were like me, money was an issue and the golden touch was recked with minimal internet experience.

Granted SEO is always a work in progress- it can be frustrating, and when you think you've got it, the search engines change their rules again. That's probably a good thing, it keeps everyone honest.

Do I regret taking the SEO challenge? No. Why? I have been told by an affiliate manager that if you can meet the SEO challenge you can be rewarded by rank and thus traffic-which brings sales. Sounds good to me. But here comes the bad part, it won't happen overnight, but it can bring you long-term benefits if you work at it, and avoid the black hat tactics. As I write this last statement, I hear a low groan, mumbling and a frustrated sigh. Gee, those ugly sounds may have come from me, as I recall my own SEO beginnings. Don't get disheartened, the benefits are long-term.

If I can keep on track, you may see several articles on SEO, which may help. This week's SEO article is called: "Search Engines --Please Crawl My Content"

Click the link to read the article "Search Engines-Please Crawl My Content" it will give you some hints of what to avoid when you are creating your pages, so that the search engines can find you.
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