Tricks to rank better on Google.

[sankarjan]

Hello

I am new to Tag cloud. I know one thing that visitors would feel comfortable when we have search box in our site. so that they can search there for results instead opening new tab and going to google.

Regards
Sankar

[socialamigo]

I think you are on the money with your advice about tag clouds. Tag clouds expand the relevance, increase the neighborhood, and rock the latent semantic indexing - and make it easier to pick up juice for anchor text links within the site. Social networks on the other hand seem more difficult because more traffic doesn't mean anything at all if the site hasn't any stickiness and/or conversion architecture. These are the concepts that we preach 'round the clock to our clientele.

[djmc]

Tag cloud is a form of content.

Although, in my opinion, a well-written block of content (containing the key words) trumps a tag cloud.....

[socialamigo]

I couldn't agree more about the well-written block of content.

In my opinion, the two represent different things: tag-cloud = search while content = stickiness.

I think of the process in the hour glass shape; two funnels running through a narrow tube. The tube is the search field. You need to make your site sensitive enough so that the search engines find you while providing the searchers what they are looking to find when they land. The tag-clouds are making sure that all the content is equally searchable to searchers. If your whole site isn't indexed in Google, some content is invisible. Tag-clouds help make this lost content visible.

[sar420]

Originally Posted by djmc

With all due respect.....

I have done NONE of those things you describe, yet my site is #1 in nearly all of my key words, such as "Sacramento DJs" and "Sacramento Wedding DJs" with or without the word "California"

My number one position was achieved with the following:

1) Google Maps (see below about how the reviews at UGCs play a part in this).

2) tightly written Metas (Title, Content/Description, Key Words). Its hard to write a good Meta without being "spammy" in the process

3) Content, content, content! Did I say CONTENT! I would not be "content" if I did not mention Content on all of the pages, and the keyword density has to be pitch-perfect. Too may repetitions and you are spamming, too little of the key words and you lose SERP ranking.

4) Good old fashioned LINKS IN from highly RELEVANT sites. In my case, a site called "WE DJ" (wedj.com) -- looks like "WeDJie", so I like to call it WeDJie World. I have literally hundreds of inbound links from that site alone, which is a PR-5. It also helps that I'm listed in DMOZ, Music Moz, and every major music-related directory.

5) online REVIEWS....at the following places: Yelp, City Search, Insider Pages, Merchant Circle, and City Voter. I've got free listings at every one of those places.

Lately, I've noticed that Google Maps is using the City Voter Reviews as a basis for their ranking of businesses in assigning the coveted "Slot 1A"...this is probably an entire thread subject so I'll stop here...

Awesome points mate. Thanks

[matt.bush]

Content certainly is king, followed by strong and relevant links. Everytime I find myself looking for a "trick" I seem to end up back where I started.

Matt

[selfhelpebooks]

Yes, many say it has to do with links.
But, that isn't always easy to do.
So, many suggest to focus on content for your visitors.
Also, submitting to major directories like DMOZ and url submits can help as well.

[Sun and kisses]

Good tips =)

[matt.bush]

You definitely want to give your visitors what they want, and keep it coming. But also try to think about other places on the net where potential visitors frequent, and see if there is any way of reaching them there.

Matt

[corlock]

there are lots of different ways to rank on Google SERP...IMO, there's no problem of whatever method you use as long as they are legal. but one thing is for sure, all of you has one goal...

[HostingITrust]

I really liked the Tag cloud idea, but the thought that it works on 1000+ page website is a little discouraging.

[zool007]

5) online REVIEWS....at the following places: Yelp, City Search, Insider Pages, Merchant Circle, and City Voter. I've got free listings at every one of those places.


I am going to try that out.

[wrhurst]

Keywords are very important but I must admit, lots of quality links is what the doctor prescribed. I'm still tweaking and trying to find quality sites to add a link to.

Does anyone have a list of sites they can share?

http://hurstprinting.com/
http://hurstprinting.com/screen_print_pricelist.cfm

[mitchwah]

Originally Posted by zool007

5) online REVIEWS....at the following places: Yelp, City Search, Insider Pages, Merchant Circle, and City Voter. I've got free listings at every one of those places.


I am going to try that out.

Sorry for the stupid question but are these online reviews free? I would also like to try them out. Thanks to the OP for sharing.

[francis84]

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

1. If you have search box on your site you can create tag cloud. Google will crawl your search results, index pages with search results, discover pages which was unreachable before. Tag cloud will improve importance of your pages (especially pages which are to far from homepage) and Google will rank them better. This strategy works only for websites with 1000+ pages.

Yeah.. I also read that having tag clouds is good to a website / blog, it also crawled by SE spiders.

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

2. Visit your statistic and find the most unpopular content pages (1 visit per month or something like this). Submit this pages in social networks to get extra links (deep links). Create more internal links for this pages on your own website. Most likely your unpopular pages will get better positions in Google, Yahoo, MSN search.
Promoting your unpopular pages you can get rid from Google indexation problems.

3. Deep links!!!

Thats true. Promoting our not-so-popular pages is one thing we shouldnt ignore; and deep linking is a way to do that.

[pontarae]

Most of my clients are brick and mortar businesses. They need LOCAL visibility more than national Google rankings, and, the directories and services you mention provide it!

This really came home for me when one of my clients, a counselor in Carrollton, Texas, pointed out that his clientele first asked about LOCATION.

A weekend with superpages, merchantcircle, insiderpages reviews and the others you mention made his business really pop.

The result? He called me after two weeks and said "I don't know what you've done but I may have TOO MUCH work now."

Local directories work quickly! In my SEO work I now "Think Nationally, and Act Locally" to paraphrase somebody :-)

[ezhel]

indeed tag clouds is good been using it and it was very effective.

[deceylon]

I can not found any thing interesting for blogger user.

[sniperhiga]

Many people mention content and they are right. First of all you need content and after you can mix it any way you want to improve crawling rate, SERPS, and user experience.

[shoaeeb]

Great tips