Current trends for ranking on my big 3
I want to get peoples feed back on current trends and what they feel are the basics for good ranking on my big three. Msn, yahoo, Google. I will start and hopefully get some input to get ideas to explore and experiment
Google
Sandbox - I am a beliver that it exists due to the fact after florida update we disappeared completely and after about 18 months our pages started ranking again
Links - Obviously. Link text placed on other sites to your own site important. Previously I never linked with the word "wholesale" which is why i think our site does not perform with word wholesale.
Key words within the url - example I believe that if you want a 3 keyword search you shouldnt have all 3, but have two and then optimise the page to include the additional third word
Titles
Keywords in title
Pages within the site that link direct from the home page which are key word rich
MSN
Ive been reading about peoples comments over the past few days with bugs and links changing rapidly cant comment at the moment.
I think very fresh pages.
Very rich in key words in page text and titles.
Yahoo
Im not sure at the moment about Yahoo. We use to do very well on Yahoo and not google and now vice versa. A couple of points i would like to suggest are as follows
Yahoo like "older settled pages" within the sie (not home page)
Lots of links from the home page to a specific search term.
Lots of on page text
Keyword rich titles.
I would appreciate it if everyone rips apart my comments and gives me their input without just saying lots of links. Lets get stuck into some of the smaller points.
steve
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