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    • Mon Sep 29, 2008

    The Search Engines Want to Know You Better

    Google, Yahoo and MSNLive are just itching to get to know more about your website and they are steadily adding tools to make it easier for you to tell them more, learn more and analyze just what’s going on in their world when it comes to your websites.

    Time was when figuring out how to get your site listed by the search engines was a mysterious sort of witchcraft (or at least that what some folks wanted you believe.) The search engines want to return the best results they possibly can when people use their engines so it just makes sense for them to make it easier for your content to go through the indexing process as a possible candidate for search engine results.

    Google’s newly updated submit center ties together many of the ways you might submit content to Google.

    Go visit and consume the content on the following sites and you will gain a great education on how and why to focus more attention on organic search results.

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    Posted by: John Jantsch on Sep 29, 08 | 7:07 am
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    • Spot On. The search engines want great relevant content to win. They don't want directories or online yellow pages to win, they want real businesses with real solutions to provide searchers with real answers or solutions.

      I'm working out some concepts around search as another branch of database marketing. Keep you posted....
    • Yes, the search engines want to know you better. They want content, but they also still want keywords to be used that tie it all together. No more stuffing the ballot box on the website. Make it relevant, make those keywords match the content and niche' them so that you're playing to your target market. Oh! and forget about those misspellings in the keywords area. They don't help anymore. Search engines can figure out what you're trying to spell and will substitute the results with the right words.
    • There are many tools available to help you make your site more search engine friendly. Here are 12 highly effective beginner strategies for creating a search engine friendly website.
    • You are spot on Michael. Google really wants a site to contain relevant keywords to the content they are showing. This allows there results to be much more relevant to the user.
    • Hey John,

      Can you tell us what you think about Blog logs like Blog Catalog and Yahoo's blog log? There are so many of them now..some free and some paid. How's a girl to choose?

      Angie
      follow me on twitter...aaswartz
    • John Jantsch
      @Angie - I have used BlogLog pre Yahoo days and really like what I get from a tracking and stats standpoint more than anything else. I get real time info on who is linking to my posts so I can react if need be.
    • To some search engines are still a mystery. In some respects search engines like it that way. But, as you say they do want to find you and evaluate your content. They are looking for the best content for their search users. The more avenues you open for them to find you the more likely you are to be successful.
    • This is why unethical optimisation tactics are doomed to fail and the "white hat" approach is always the best way to go... If you offer users and customers what they want, you're essentially satisfying the search engines.
      To a certain extent it's best to think les about search engines when building your site, consider the user first and the search engines as an almost as an after thought..
    • You come up with great source, which shows most popular outgoing links, I would like to say thanks from my heart.
      Really i found it for the very first time on this large web.
    • Joe
      The #1 most important thing I have found in interacting with the search engine webmaster tools has been site map building. There are tools for this online but for some sites I build them by hand and another I automated with the process with my own internal utility. The language for the XML sitemap is not hard to pick up. One important part of the process--prioritizing the value of your pages by assigning rank.

      Here is a site that purports to build free sitemaps if you have 500 pages or less--
      http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
    • Thanks for the tips. I have been gradually improving my web standings on search engines, through cross posting, registering on sites which pull feeds from mine. But I have hit a plateau. Nice to find a few more tools I can use to raise visibility
    • mukeshpatel
      Unisoft Datatech Provide Facility For Data Entry,Online Data Entry Jobs India, Offline Data Entry Work, Data-Entry, Dataentry, Manual Data Entries, Image Entry, Insurance Claim Entry, Data Processing, Forms Image Processing, Data Mining Cleansing, Data Conversion Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Form Processing, Document Scanning, OCR, Accounting, Bookkeeping services with Quality Work and Accuracy.
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