Serps and seo

[adamnichols45]

I can somebody please explain what SERP means please.

Secondly could somebody please help me understand this.

i want to put out a website with 100+ pages and i would like to know will google index this? Say i was linked to a couple of webistes whose pr was 3 each would i be near the top - i feel my website is excellent and targets all the right keywords. Any info is so very much appreciated thanks everyone.

[TheRookie]

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[adamnichols45]

thanks for that - i was just confused because alot of the time people are saying that the serps dont like the new changes they have made to there website. thanks

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Excellence is no longer a reason for good placement and in Google content is no longer king. I have several websites that are excellent and target all the right keywords but they appear nowhere in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages).

You may get lucky but you should hang around this forum, read and learn as much as you can. There is no quick way to get your site to the top of the Natural SERPs other than paying someone megabucks to do it for you or using PPC.

Regarding indexing, If you have inbound links from a couple of PR 3s, 4s or 5s your site will get indexed but the fact that it is indexed has no bearing on your ranking.

[adamnichols45]

So the websites in the top positions are they just lucky because they are like my site except i feel i am targeting keywords better shurly i should be up there with them?

[Pedent]

Getting your site to rank well is a lot more complicated than that. Thankfully, there's more than enough information at this site to help you.

The very basics: Sites are ranked on both on-page and off-page factors.

On-page factors include whether (and how often) the search phrase appears on your page, whether it appears in headings on your page, whether it appears in the title of your page, (arguably) whether it appears in the your description and keywords metatags, etc.

Off-page factors include the number of links pointing to your page, the quality of those links, and the anchor text of those links, etc.

There are a lot more factors than this, but these are some of the things to start thinking about. Your competitors that outrank you are doing better than you on at least some of these criteria. For instance, they may well have a lot more incoming links that you, or have the search phrase in the anchor text of more of their incoming links than you.

Good luck!

[adamnichols45]

excellent well it is certainly hard ranking in google if they require you to have incoming links from pr4 + when the websites that i will require a link from are direct competetion - No win situation or can somebody prove me wrong?

[Andromeda]

Off-page factors include the number of links pointing to your page, the quality of those links, and the anchor text of those links, etc.

Pedent, what do you mean by the quality of the links? What makes a link good quality?

And can someone please tell me what PR stands for, I can't find it in the glossary.

Many Thanks

Andromeda

[adamnichols45]

PR stands for Pagerank - you can see PR values if you downlaod the google toolbar

its a google thing

[robotsdobetter]

Page Rank is Google's way of saying how important the web page is. You can increase your Page Rank by getting more web sites linking to you.

[Pedent]

A couple of things make for a good quality link. A link on a high PR page is better than one on a low PR page. It's also better to get a link from a page with few other links on it. More controversially, a link from a page on a related topic may help you more than a link from a page on an unrelated topic.

[Andromeda]

Thanks for the answers to those questions. Much appreciated.