.NET advertising (Microsoft DOT NET technology)

how to rank your .NET website

[Lisa]

When preforming a search for "something .NET" the search engines think you are looking for something.net or that .NET is just a noise word.

I have found most of my .NET resources by searching for DOT NET.

[Xoc]

Google doesn't index the . in .NET so they just see it as NET. However, Google, at least, indexes the # in C#. I've had good success putting C# in my .NET Searches. Also don't forget the specific Google Microsoft search, [google.com...]

If I'm having success searching that way, others will figure it out, too.

[Lisa]

How do I search for C++? That has always puzzled me.

[sean]

Two other decent bases for these searches are "Microsoft .NET" and "Microsoft's .NET" plus keyword.

[andrey_sea]

Another good way to search is

vb.net vs C#

Lisa, why would you search for C++ in connection with .NET ? C++ is heavily deemphasized with .NET since the only advantage to using it vs. C# is that it can run outside of the .NET framework managed environment. This is a no-no according to Microsoft, so they are really pushing C# and VB.NET.

So if I am searching for C++ I am most likely not searching for anything .NET.

[Lisa]

Most Search engines see "C++" as "C", and that is not very helpful. They seem to ignore the ++ part.

[chris_f]

The best way to search for .net in google is to put speak marks around it. For example:

connecting to a database using ".net"

Chris.

[sean]

Lisa - How do I search for C++?

Google.

chris_f - connecting to a database using ".net"

This probably has more to do with word proximity than the marks. However, it does lead to another point. Searching for vb.net or asp.net will ask if you want to go to those web addresses, but searching for "vb.net" or "asp.net" will take you directly to the regular results.

Searching for .NET stuff is interesting in that, except for the above examples, word proximity is not a factor, it is the factor. It gets to the essence of targeting keyword combinations with the question, "if my main keyword were an invisible word, how would I get found?"