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I am new overhear and need your support. I am promoting one website in Search Engines, that is example.com and this website is coming on 1st position with "example words" key phrase, but when I search in Yahoo! and AOL with same key phrase, site is no where? This thing is happening from last 2 weeks.
Can you people help me out to solve this problem? What should I do and what is missing.
Waiting for help.
Regards,
Jaydeep...
[edited by: Woz at 8:12 am (utc) on Nov. 24, 2003]
[edit reason] No URLs or Specific please. TOS#13 [/edit]
I have no experiences with AOL, but you can expect Yahoo! to use some filters and some members have reported that Yahoo! results sometimes look rather much like Inktomi.
Thanks for your inputs. As you said I kept cool, 2 days back site was coming in Yahoo! and again next day it's not in Yahoo! :(
Well can you help to guide on how to list all pages of the website. Currently while I am promoting website only home page or index page is getting listed and not inner pages. I tried putting site map, text links of all pages at the bottom on every page etc... but it's of now use.
Please guide.
Jaydeep
Will Yahoo! skip Google altogether and use some mixture of Inktomi/Alta Vista/Alltheweb?
Will MSN skip Inktomi and build their own search engine? Or use Google?
What will AOL do?
The really professional webmasters have strategies that take all possiblities into consideration. That is hardly possible for you or me, but we can do SOMETHING.
The first thing you have to do if you want to fare reasonably well in search engines is to ensure that they know the existence of your website(s) and as many as possible of your individual pages.
This is mostly a question of one thing: LINKS. Links to your website(s) on other people's websites. And internal links on your own website(s). Links that are easily found and read by humans and spiders.
The next thing is to have search engines actually visit and read and index those pages. Sometimes it is very difficult to find out why a page has not been visited, but there are some golden rules. Here are a few of the ideas behind my own way of building websites:
Don't overdo it. Webmasters have tried thousands of different ways to cheat search engines. And little by little the people at the search engines build filters into their algorithms to avoid the cheating. Even if you do not consciously try to cheat you may trigger such a filter. The best way to avoid filters is to build everything natural and user-friendly.
Try to create a website that has a natural strength in its niche on the web. Create good content that other webmasters will want to link to. Make your website into a natural entity where everything fits together. Search engines tend to favour websites that they consider to be "good". It may be very difficult to understand how they make that judgement, but in Google's case the PR of the individual pages may give you some idea. If your index page has a high PR you may hope to have many pages spidered by googlebot.
To summarize: It's about links and content and design. Create lots of good content and link it well together. And get other people to link to you. And make a nice, clean design where everything is easy to find. Don't fill your code with things that are of no use to your visitors. And don't cheat or do anything that LOOKS like cheating.
I guess what I'm asking is - Is there a way to track HOW people who found YOUR site actually found it - and what words THEY REALLY used to find YOUR site?
Shadows Papa
Post Florida - would you care to swap websites with me!
Yes: Study your logs carefully. Test your positions in search engines for search terms that you find in your logs though not having targetted them with your pages. My logs are among my most important sources for inspiration.
Shadows Papa
your hosting service should be able to provide you with either an online web log analyzer or the log files that you can download and then analyze with some other third party tool.
I use an old version of Web Trends analyzer, but that's by no means any glowing referral of the product.
