How will your page rank on search engines?
How do search engines rank your page? By the words you use, and where you use them. Most engines give higher priority to words in the upper 3,000 characters of the page, especially when they are also in your meta tags.
Are you putting your most important words in the right places? This report shows you what the search engines will see when they rate your page.
Submission Problems A major source of search engine problems is the submission services. When search engines see thousands of submissions an hour from the same source, they start discarding them. For best results, submit your pages directly to the search engines yourself. If you can, log on to the server or a machine in the domain name where the page is hosted, and submit from there. How many search engines can you name? Most people can't name ten, never mind the 500 or 5000 some submissions services claim to list your page with. We've a few submissions services over the years. Although most submission services worked fine in 1996 and 1997, by 1999, all we were getting was a tide of spam from so-called search engines we'd never heard of before, and never found our test pages on any of the top ten search engines. Some of the spam even suggested starting fake search engines to create a "legitimate" excuse for spamming people. Conclusion: Only the top three to ten search engines matter. However, if your page has a narrow professional focus, you may also want to be in several trade specific search engines. And don't rely on submission services. Feedback This service will be available to paid subscribers. For now, we are making it available to non-subscribers on the basis that we are soliciting comments regarding this service. Part of our agreement with you, (yes, you), is that you comment, telling us both what you like, but more important, what you find confusing, difficult, or missing. We know what this thing does. We use it for our clients. But we need to be make sure that "this stuff" is clear enough for you to understand and use productively. Our E-mail address is below. Read on, and tell us what you think.
How many search engines can you name? Most people can't name ten, never mind the 500 or 5000 some submissions services claim to list your page with. We've a few submissions services over the years. Although most submission services worked fine in 1996 and 1997, by 1999, all we were getting was a tide of spam from so-called search engines we'd never heard of before, and never found our test pages on any of the top ten search engines. Some of the spam even suggested starting fake search engines to create a "legitimate" excuse for spamming people.
Conclusion: Only the top three to ten search engines matter. However, if your page has a narrow professional focus, you may also want to be in several trade specific search engines. And don't rely on submission services.
If you have an account with us, you may use the buttons to select words to order reports, or add them to the keyword lists on your meta-tag workbench(tm) via the form below.
Make sure your important words are used often within your text and headers.
The top 3000 words include the first words your visitor will see. Do the words listed for those other pages on the search engine have more appeal than the first words on your page? If not, someone else's page is just a click away!
Make sure your most important words appear in the yellow column with more than just a single use.
Are your most important words in all three columns? Are your most important words appearing two or three times in the right column, but no more than four times?
If your most important words appear more too often because they are in the meta keyword tag several times, search engines could consider this keyword spamming and downgrade your rank under those words.
What else do you see in the red column? Advertising from your tools? Excess HTML font tags? Excess tag baggage crowds out plain-text words from the upper 3000 bytes of your page (green column), lowering your page rank.
Many search engines limit the meta keyword tag to about 1000 characters, and the meta description tag to two or three lines. If you have near that many keywords, you probably should have the content of the page broken up into several more focused pages, each of which will rank better on its reduced keyword set.
The plain-text keywords in the green column validate keywords in the red column, boosting rank for those words. Miss or abuse them, and you page will begin to smell like a dead fish, lowering your search engine rank.
Make sure your important words appear only one to three times in the red column; once in the meta keyword tag, and for the most important few words, once or twice in your meta description tag.
Do not waste your most important space on excess tag baggage, stuffed meta tags, or meta tags advertising someone else's tools.
Yes, viewing these tables can be a wake-up call regarding all those fancy wysiwyg tools stuff into your pages. Look at the source of the top 3000 bytes of your page below the three tables.
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