Friday, April 14, 2006

How to retain your position in the listings of search engines

Constant screening and resubmission are necessary to obtain and maintain a high listing in search engines because it is one of the absolute ways to drive traffic to your website. Most of the webmasters also count on Google’s arrangement of ranking and listing the websites in the top of its lists. To retain the listing of our website we often embed behind the scenes code, but if search engine misleads the end result is always counterproductive. Not only you will lose the listing of your site but also stand the risk of getting black listed. Search engines are smart enough to immediately identify the crooks. The only ethical way to remain in the earnest listing of the Search Engines is to remain loyal with the search engines and following each search engine's instructions and requirements to the letter.

But here your responsibility does not come to an end. You also need to keep a proper check on your listings by maintaining a proper webmetrics. For this you need to meticulously pay attention, even if you are facilitated with good ranking with your Google keywords, because good PR does not always imply a healthy listing. Because of the black-hat SEO tactics, Google has introduced a variety of filters and algorithms that considerably affects the rankings and listings of web pages in its search results. Google constantly updates these filters and algorithms so listings are "relevant" to the keywords people are searching for. As well, Google perplexes the webmasters to such an extent that they are left pondering whether they will be able to meet the challenging criteria to maintain their position. I guess, it is healthy to create a sensation of ambiguity; at least in this way the webmasters don’t dare to employ unethical tactics. If search engines don't make these changes frequently, the search engine spammers will get a golden opportunity to deceive search engines and make irrelevant sites appear in the top listings.

If your website listing has all of a sudden dropped out of the listings of major search engines, to fix this problem fast, so that you don't loose money, you need to make sure that

(1) Your Website Offers High-Quality Relevant Content.
(2) Your site is not over-done with keyword stuffing, cloaking and other deceiving skills. Google’s updated algorithms can now easily identify over-optimized site tricks and penalizes them by dropping their ranking dramatically.
(3) You are not violating search engines guidelines. Some of the attributes that breach the guidelines are Doorway pages, link farming, Hidden invisible links and white keyword text and Mirror sites optimized for a single search engine
(4) Until you're able to get your ranking back, pay per click ads can compensate your losses by generating traffic in just a few hours. Here you need to keep a strong watch on your budget and revenue.
(5) Make use of multiple methods of generating traffic to get a steady stream of traffic. Strategies such as email marketing, pay per click advertising, affiliate programs and link exchanges considerably increase the ranking and listing.
(6) Google is not only the end of World. Exploiting the potential of other valuable search engines can drive fresh traffic to your website by improving your website ranking.

Remember out of sight is out of mind.

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