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Design - Plan -
Create - Check -
Submit - Position -
Promote
Positioning
When a customer searches for a keyword related to your products or
services, does your site appear in the top 10 returned by the search
engine or does your competition? Submitting your site alone does
nothing to insure good visibility.
There are many "search engine spamming" tricks that have
been published: unrelated meta codes, white on white text, repeating
text, etc. As these techniques are developed, the search engines
adjust their site ranking algorithms to ignore them, and sometimes
even punish sites for using them. Trying to adjust your site to comply
with the search engines is like driving your car with a sunscreen on
the front windshield. You can't see how you are driving; you can only
use the mirror to see the results.
Positioning companies use special web servers that recognize the IP
addresses of the search engine spiders in order to feed them a home
page that exactly matches their requirements for high ranking while
returning your actual home page to your customers. They track the
changes in the search engine algorithms and update your alternate home
pages as the search engine requirements change. Positioning companies
often charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month to
guarantee listing on the first page in the search engine results. This
cost is usually outside the budget of many small businesses.
The best way to get a reasonable ranking for your page is to start
with the list of key words that your customers will most likely search
for. When designing your home page use these words as often as
possible in the page text, page title, image alternate text, and meta
codes.
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