How Do I Get My Website Noticed on Google?
Building a website gives you the opportunity to reach a vast audience regardless of your content. Artists and content creators can find people who are interested in their work, businesses can reach a plethora of new customers, and online communities can gather together plenty of people interested in nearly any topic. There are many ways to advertise, but a great way is to let people find your site through Google. There are a few ways to tweak your site to help viewers' search results become more relevant, and help you reach more people.
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Use meta tags on your website. Meta tags fit into your page's HTML and essentially give the search engine basic information to index, such as keywords and page summaries. This can be immensely helpful by influencing where your site turns up when people search for certain keywords. The meta tags go inside your <head> tags, and look like this:
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<meta name="description" content="This is a website about dogs." />
<meta name="keywords" content="dogs, dog lovers, dog care, pets, animals" />
<meta name="author" content="Bob" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" />
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Create and use a site map. A site map is an XML file that lists all the URLs of the pages on your website, as well as meta data for those pages. An example and information on how to make one can be found at sitemaps.org. Site maps influence the search engine by helping it view all of your pages at once instead of simply indexing the random pages it may find. This leads to more numerous and relevant results.
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Look for sites where you can place your link or affiliate. (To affiliate with a site, you exchange links, so essentially you are pointing to each other from your websites.) The more sites that link in to your own website create higher page rankings and can boost your place in search results, though the reliability of this procedure may depend on your content. It never hurts!
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Tips & Warnings
Advertising is a great way to help boost link-ins. If you have many user profiles on Internet forums, blogs and other locations, place the link to your site in your profile. They will all register as sites linking in to your own.
While using meta data keywords are effective, a common misconception is that by adding thousands upon thousands of keywords, you can gain an immense boost. This is not true, and search engines may only look at your first segment of keywords. Choose carefully and make them diverse and relevant.
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