adventurechick 0 #1 January 30, 2007 As some of you know, I am working on a website for the CPA I work for. I'm pretty new at this and still learning. I am trying to get his website to show up in the search engines if someone types in orlando cpa. (www.rodneyeddinscpa.com) Anyone know any tricks of the trade to help make this happen? Thanks for your help!!! Blue Skies and warm weather to you!! PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #2 January 30, 2007 This is a long and ever escalating battle. Goggle uses a different design for their search engine then Yahoo does. Creating a site to place at the top of one search engine is possible but then it will generally not fare as well on another search engine. The more popular the words that you want, the harder it will be to design the site correctly. Search Engine Optimization is where the true skills of the web designer really come into play. Any monkey can create a site, but the gifted are able to design the site and populate the right locations to rank the site extremely high on the search engines. Have you submitted it to the sites in its final form? They only crawl every few weeks so any changes you make will not move it up or down in the ranks until the next time they crawl your site.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davedlg 0 #3 January 30, 2007 Your easiest and best bet would be to pay for google ad words. They are the links that appear at the bottom of this forum (and many other pages on the net), as well as at the top and side of google search results. It basically works like an auction..you say what the most you are willing to pay for an impression, and the highest bidder gets the ad. "Forcing" a web page to show up in the actual search results is much more difficult. In the early days of the internet and simple search engines repeating the phrase "orlando cpa" over and over on your webpage worked. These days, the way the search engines work is that other pages that mention "orlando cpa" and link to your web page count toward getting the highest rankings. This is something that is difficult to force the search engine to do by design. Your best bet to get your listing higher would be to make sure that your website is linked from as many other relavant pages (business associations, yellow pages ads, cpa confrences and the like) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Loonix 0 #4 January 30, 2007 I must be secretly skilled then, type my nick in google, and im #2 :D and this yahoo bot (called "slurp") is slurping my site about every 10 minutes .. it accounts for the second most hits on my site, second to spammers... To get many hits, you need people linking to your site. That makes google (and others, i guess) think that you have a really great site :) Also look into the use of "meta tags". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #5 January 30, 2007 Unique word stings will always place highly in search engines. Trying to be #1 rank with the word "carpet" is a very hard thing to do.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #6 January 30, 2007 Yeah, I get a lot of activity from google on my site. I used to block all search engines to keep people away, but once we added the google ads, we needed to let them index the site so that the ads would be relevant. Otherwise it was just putting up generic ads which was really annoying. But it's pretty funny what happens when google indexes random pages on the site. At the top of every page is the search box, with the 7 most recent searches showing below it. Well those recent searches get indexed as page content... so you start to get some very weird results in google. For example, somebody once searched for "sexcam" on SkydivingMovies.com. Then it showed "sexcam" at the top of a page that got indexed. Well, a google search for "sexcam" placed SkydivingMovies.com on page 1 for a while. The page you'd end up at just said "No results found for sexcam." It happens all the time now with all kinds of keywords. Happened recently with searches for "els van doren video." We don't have that video, but we're currently the number one result on google. We used to be on page 1 for "nacked girls" too. A few weeks ago I started noticing TONS of searches on SDM for things like "_s" or "m" or other really short, weird terms. So I started logging the IP address of the person doing the searches. Turned out to be google! Well, it's not really their fault. They just keep visiting search pages on SDM and get logged as if they did the search. I had to start blocking their IP addresses from the recent searches list... but they have a whole lot of IP addresses... Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Loonix 0 #7 January 30, 2007 hehe odd results indeed. Did you research the use of robots.txt to control what/how googlebot indexes your page? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #8 January 30, 2007 Yeah, I used to just use robots.txt to keep them all out. I've looked at ways to control what parts of the page google looks at and what parts it ignores, but I don't care enough to do anything. Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
