Web Design: Website Ranking -What's Your Position?

Website Ranking -What's Your Position?

Written by Stephen Cope

Website ranking is about your position in repparttar search engine results for a particular keyword. Search engine optimisation is about making a Website/Web pages to rank highly (first 30 results) on repparttar 132590 search engine results Page (SERP).

Your Website Ranking/Position is Important

Your Website rank or position for a particular keyword is what determines whether or not you receive visitors from repparttar 132591 search engines. It is generally accepted that if you are not ranked in repparttar 132592 top 30 search results for a particular keyword then as far as repparttar 132593 search engines are concerned you donÆt exist for that keyword.

Check your Website Ranking/Position Manually

To check your Website rank for a particular keyword repparttar 132594 go to repparttar 132595 search engine whose position you want to check and enter your keyword. You then need to go through repparttar 132596 results and try to locate your Website URL in repparttar 132597 results. This manual method of checking your Website ranking position is both time consuming and tedious. It is however repparttar 132598 most reliable and search engine friendly.

Goggle have made Checking your Website ranking at Goggle easier with a ranking page www.googleranking.com which allows you to check your Website position in repparttar 132599 first 1000 results.

Exactseek also have a very similar feature at http://www.exactseek.com/srank.html

Because Exactseek usually index within a week I use it as a quick check for my web page. If I canÆt get it to rank at repparttar 132600 top or near repparttar 132601 top in Exactseek it is unlikely to rank high in Goggle or Yahoo.

Check your Website Ranking Using Software Tools

There are many Website ranking tools and software packages that will automate this process of position checking and they are essential to most webmasters. However despite their use and prevalence repparttar 132602 major search engines do not allow them. They are however tolerated. So in respect to repparttar 132603 search engines please donÆt overdo repparttar 132604 use of website ranking software.

Writing For The Web - Four Steps You Can't Ignore!

Written by April Ward

By April Ward - Internet Consultant www.aprilward.net ©Copyright 2004 aprilward.net

If you are developing a new web site or upgrading repparttar web site you have, you may be wondering how to get started. When I consult my clients regarding their web sites, I try to give them this little bit of advice. Spend 20 percent of your time on repparttar 132588 design of your site and 80 percent of your time on repparttar 132589 content.

High-quality content will help build credibility and trust between you and your customers. One thing I know for sure; there are a lot of scams on repparttar 132590 Internet today and people have become very distrustful of what they see and read. The key to having a successful web site is to provide quality information that isn’t hype, so you can position yourself as repparttar 132591 expert in your field.

To write good content for your web site, keep these things in mind.

1.Try to anticipate repparttar 132592 questions and concerns your customers may have and provide answers to those questions on your web site.

2.To write customer focused copy, you must become repparttar 132593 customer.

Let’s say that your small business sells repparttar 132594 EZ Widget 4000 and you need to write new copy to entice your customers to purchase your new product. To write customer focused ads, try this exercise.

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