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Basic Search engine info for
Webmasters
It has no use to built a website and not paying
attention to search engines and or the process
of how search engines work and how to use them
to get traffic visitors to your site. Unless if
you do not wish to receive visitors on your
website you do not need search engines. But you
will still need tool and info to keep them of
your site or else you might still get listed on
search engines without knowing so.
Search engines are the only tool for people
world wide to find information and websites
based on keywords of there interest. IN order to
join the search engine process and to make sure
your website can be found as well in search
engines using keywords related to your website.
You need to pay attention to certain things that
are required by search engines in order to get
your site listed in there keyword database.
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This is called a Meta-Tag. Meta-Tag is a couple
of lines that provide search engines quick
details about your site. Details. what is your
site about, who made this site, What keywords
should people use to find your website. You can
use one and the same Meta-Tag code for each html
page in your site or give each page a different
one or only give your index.html page a
Meta-Tag. Without a Meta-Tag the change is big
that its will become nearly impossible to find
your website in a search engines. Or it shows up
on search results page 100 or higher. Once your
HTML pages contain a good meta-tag that
describes your website. You need to tell the
search engines please come index my website so
my site gets listed in your search engine and
people can find me. There are many free tools
programs that allow you to submit your site to
the top 10 search engines. It has no use to
spend lots of money on site claiming they can
submit your site to millions of different search
engines. Just make sure your site gets listed on
the top 10 engines. Google, altavista, yahoo
etc...
Required meta-tag lines for a search engine
are:
< META NAME="Title" CONTENT="my site title "
>
< META NAME="Description" CONTENT="my site
description" >
< META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="keywords,
keywords, keywords, keywords" >
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Optimizing Your HTML Images " alt " tag
Attributes
Did you know that images in your page can help
improve your search engine listings too? Each
image HTML tag on your page can include a
keyword phrase or two that relates to the image.
Many search engines evaluate the alternative
text of images. If you want to improve your
search engine ranking, you should add keywords
to your image alternative texts.This text will
also show up & help those that may have
their images turned off when visiting your site.
This does not work for all engines, but it
certainly does not hurt so we recommend you give
it a try where you can. Many search engines will
pick up the image tag words as real
keywords.
Sample of image HTML image tag without alt
keywords:
< IMG SRC="RobotControlPro.gif" width="10"
height="10" > Search engies will ignore
each image.
Here is a good sample that uses the Alt
keywords: < IMG SRC="RobotControlPro.gif"
width="10" height="10" alt="Robot Control Pro!
The Ultimate Website Protection Tool" >
You can add the "alt" attribute to any image on
your page.Tag limits: We do not recommend using
more than a brief sentence or two to describe an
image.Tag tips: Be sure to use the keyword
phrases that you also used in the copy of your
page, title tag, meta description, and other
tags. Do not try to cram a bunch of keywords
into the "alt" attribute. We recommend using no
more than 2-3 per image. Describe the image - do
not just list keywords.The "alt" attribute is
also a good place for misspellings and plural
keyword phrases that you may not have used
elsewhere.
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Why submit your website(s) to search
engines
If you don't no one will be able to find your
webiste. Unless you do not wish to be found you
really should prepare your site for the search
engine requirements. Add a Meta-Tag to your site
and submit your site URL to the top 10 search
engines. In return world wide users will be able
to find your website using keywords in the
search engine. Once a match of the keyword is
found in your website Meta-Tag people will be
able to visit your site by clicking the link in
the search results.
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How do i know if a search engine has indexed
my website
With Robot Control Pro installed you can turn on
the option to receive a detailed email as soon a
search engine has started to index your website.
This allows you to monitor the search engines
behavior. After you have submitted your URL to a
search engine it usually takes 3 to 5 days
before the search engine robot will visit your
site to make a index of all files. A month after
your site has been indexed you should be able to
see a growing line in the amount of visitors on
your website. Without RCP its hard to tell if
your site has been indexed or not. If you have
access to your website access log file then you
could check the access.log in a plain text
editor and search for any known search engine
robot useragent. But this is not a easy job. RCP
also allows you to set index rules for each
robot and you decide wich robot may or may not
index your website. RCP means full control on
all robots and spiders visiting your site.
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Which search engine is " The Biggest " ?
They'd all like you to believe they're either
"the biggest" or, if they can't possibly claim
that, "the best." Google currently claims to
index over 3.3 billion pages, while
Alltheweb.com (one of Yahoo‚s many search
properties) claims to index over 3.1 billion.
Search engines which demand that site
owners pay to have their sites indexed, such as
AskJeeves, index fewer pages. Google is at the
moment the most used search engine world
wide.
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How Long Does it Take to Get Listed for
Free?
Here's the length of time it currently takes to
get listed at each of the major search engines
once you have submitted your web page for free.
Search engines also offer paid options to be
listed real quick. Get listed in about 48 hours
for a price around: $25/$50. Search engines also
offer pay per click keywords you can bid on.
This means you can bid a price on a keyword
matching your site. You then only pay per
clicked search engine result. If you really want
to get the best out of a search engine it is
well worth to try the paid traffic options of
the well known search engines.
MSN.com - Up to 2 months
Google.com - Up to 4 weeks
AltaVista.com - Up to 1 week
Alltheweb.com - Up to 2 weeks
Excite.com - Up to 6 weeks
Northern Light - Up to 4 weeks
AOL.com - Up to 2 months
HotBot.com - Up to 2 months
iWon.com - Up to 2 months
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Do not SPAM the search engines with your
site!
There are several things, considered "spamming",
that you can do to try to get your page listed
higher on a search engine results page.
Basically, you should never try to trick a
search engine in any way, or you risk being
blacklisted by them. Since the majority of your
traffic will come from search engines the risk
far outweighs the benefits in the long run.
Below is a list of the more common things we
recommend that you never do when trying to
achieve better listings.
Things Not To do:
1) Do anything to trick the search engines into
listing your site better. The search engines
will likely view it as spam and penalize
you.
2) List your keywords anywhere except in your
keywords meta tag. By "list" we mean something
like: keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3,
keyword 4, etc. There are very few legitimate
reasons that a list of keywords would actually
appear on a web page or within the page's HTML
code and the search engines know this. While you
may have a legitimate reason for doing this we
would recommend avoiding it so that you do not
risk being penalized by the search engines.
3) Use the same color text on your page as the
page's background color. This has often been
used to keyword stuff a web page. Search engines
can detect this and view it as spam.
4) Use multiple instances of the same tag. For
example, using more than one title tag. Search
engines can detect this and view it as spam.
5) Submit identical pages. For example, do not
duplicate a page of your site, give the
copies different file names, and submit each
one. Search engines can detect this and view it
as spam.
6) Submit the same page to any engine more than
once within 24hrs. Use any keywords in your
keywords meta tag that do not directly relate to
the content of your page.
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Use Keyword in your url's and folder names
This is a very easy but effective trick. Using a
keyword in your URL or folder or file name will
help boost your relevancy on most search
engines. URL's Such as a URL of
http://www.myhome.com/listings.htm doesn't say
too much, but a URL of
http://www.myhome.com/toasters.htm includes the
keyword "toaster" in any searches. That is
quality web ranking design advice. Its also a
tricky way of working in ranking, design, and
advice to reinforce my keywords.
For example: this sites base directory used to
be loaded on our own ISP in the SHOWCASE
directory. I couldn't figure out why my Ag and
Farming Search Engine was getting so many hits
on "Case" Tractors and the keyword "Showcase".
Turns out that, "showcase" in my URL was pulling
in traffic for the Case tractors, and other
people where searching literally for "Showcase"
design. Use keywords related to your site as
names for folders on your website.
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Use high value keyword "phrases"
Do use high value keyword "phrases" in addition
to your keywords in your Meta tag. Look for
something unusual, don't just copy the
competition, but do target the competition. Look
at your referrals and see what combinations of
words are being used together and work them into
a phrase near the beginning of your
keywords.
For example: < meta name="keywords"
content="Robot control pro, Website protection"
> Will return more hits from search engines
then: < meta name="keywords" content="Robot,
control, pro, Website, protection" >
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Robots.txt / rcp robottxt.out
Tutorial
Search engines will look in your root domain for
a special file named "robots.txt"
(http://www.mydomain.com/robots.txt). This file
tells the robot (spider) which files it may
spider (index). This system is called, The
Robots Exclusion Standard. Websites using Robot
Control Pro. Your robots.txt file is
the robottxt.out file in your robot
folder (works the same as a robots.txt
file).
The format for the robots.txt file is
special. It consists of records. Each record
consists of two fields : a User-agent line and
one or more Disallow: lines. The format
is: ":"
The robots.txt file should be created in Unix
line ender mode! Most good text editors will
have a Unix mode or your FTP client *should* do
the conversion for you. Do not attempt to use an
HTML editor that does not specifically have a
text mode to create a robots.txt file.
RCP users do not need to include User Agents
specifies in the robots.txt file. RCP will
take care for you wish robots may and may not
index your site using the RCP admin area
Approved and denied list.
The User-agent line For example: User-agent:
*
The wildcard character "*" to specify all
robots: User-agent: * RCP will then
check which are or are not allowed to index your
site.
Disallow:The second part of a record
consists of Disallow: directive lines. These
lines specify files and/or directories. For
example, the following line instructs spiders
that it can not download email.htm: Disallow:
email.htm. You may also specify directories:
Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Which would block spiders
from your cgi-bin directory. There is a wildcard
nature to the Disallow directive. The standard
dictates that /bob would disallow /bob.html and
/bob/indes.html (both the file bob and files in
the bob directory will not be indexed).
If you leave the Disallow line blank, it
indicates that ALL files may be retrieved. At
least one disallow line must be present for each
User-agent directive to be correct. A completely
empty Robots.txt file is the same as if it were
not present.
White Space & Comments Any line in
the robots.txt that begins with # is considered
to be a comment only. The standard allows for
comments at the end of directive lines, but this
is really bad style: Disallow: bob #comment
Some spider will not interpret the above line
correctly and instead will attempt to disallow
"bob#comment." The moral is to place comments on
lines by themselves. White space at the
beginning of a line is allowed, but not
recommended. For example:
# My comments go here (stay out my cgi)
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
The following allows all robots (RCP will check
which robots are allowed. There for in the
robottxt.out it should allow all robots. ) To
index all files because the wildcard "*"
specifies all robots.
User-agent: *
Disallow:
he next one bars all robots from the cgi-bin and
images directories:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
This one bans only googlebot from getting at
your cheese.htm file. Google is still allowed to
index all other files. Any other robot will also
be allowed to index the cheese.htm :
User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: cheese.htm
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