htdawg
msg:3480795 | 12:57 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
In my opinion its most likely because they have the keywords in their domain and in general I have seen many sites that outrank other sites because of this.
|
BeeDeeDubbleU
msg:3480814 | 1:09 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
It could be that they have more and better inbound links than you.
|
pab1953
msg:3480816 | 1:17 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Yes, BeeDee, I was wondering about inbound links and should have mentioned them. Is there any way I can determine what inbound links the other site has? How about my site -- any way of knowing that?
|
buckworks
msg:3480828 | 1:38 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| When you search for "homelessness and [STATE]" |
|
Is that the most common query that USERS use? Sometimes a search ranking that's good for a director's ego is not necessarily the ranking that will be most productive for reaching real users. Do some digging with a couple of good keyword research tools to figure out which searches and variations real users users are most likely to be looking for. Those will be the most productive to aim for. If the director's "ego trip search" is one of them, you're in luck. If not, you might have a teaching job on your hands to explain why it would be more productive to rank well for (for example) something like "homelessness in [STATE]" or "[STATE] homelessness". Massage his/her ego as needed along the way! {Edited to fix typo} [edited by: buckworks at 1:58 pm (utc) on Oct. 18, 2007]
|
BeeDeeDubbleU
msg:3480832 | 1:41 pm on Oct 18, 2007 (gmt 0) |
You can use the "link:" operator to check inbound links ... [google.com...] Note that Google does not accurately report inbound links. You would probably be better using the same operator in Yahoo. [edited by: BeeDeeDubbleU at 1:42 pm (utc) on Oct. 18, 2007]
|
vertex42
msg:3482917 | 8:37 pm on Oct 20, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Yahoo's Site Explorer [siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com ] is a nice tool for finding out what sites are linking to a website. Even better: combine that with the FireFox SeoQuake add-on, which will display the pagerank as well as other stats for all of the pages in the Yahoo Site Explorer listings. [edited by: mona at 6:49 pm (utc) on Nov. 13, 2007]
[edit reason] no urls - thx! [/edit]
|
|
