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How can I make my website appear higher on Google?

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Question added by marwa khalaf , .Net Developer , Sands National Academy
Date Posted: 2013/04/10
Zaid Rabab'a
by Zaid Rabab'a , Software Development Team Leader , Al-Safa Co. Ltd.

I think all the answer fit the point but its too detalied , i'll make short list with important things - Valid HTML/CSS - Avoid broken links - Make sure the page size with 150k or above will not fully indexed in spiders/crawlers - A good Title and a readable content is very very important - Check the important urls , they must have no more than 2 dynamic parameters ( query string ) - Every Page must have one tag for most titles , for less ....
etc ...
Metatags: such as and - Title metatag Displayed in the top line of a browser, and often duplicated in listings of search engines, etc.
- Promotional descriptions.
Keyword metatag: Generally obsolete but still necessary: Google does not index the metatag for "keywords" - Add metadata to images with the tag and include/reinforce keywords

Faizan Ahmad
by Faizan Ahmad , Software Engineer , cardekho.com

For Optimization You have to keep this in mind :- If you are preparing to optimize a website, there are certain points you need to keep in mind.
The site needs to be attractive both to your visitors and to the search engine spiders.
If you want to build a site that will make both groups want to return, keep reading.
There are many things to keep in mind when you are optimizing your website.
It helps to remember that you are not only optimizing your website for the search engines, but also for you site’s visitors.
After all, if you get a good ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs), you have a better chance of garnering lots of visitors — but it will be the site itself that keeps them there, and hopefully encourages them to buy your product or service (or do whatever else you want them to do).
Fortunately, many of the points you will want to tend to when constructing your website to be easily handled by the search engine spiders will also make it more congenial for your visitors.
There are five basic components you will want to address.
These are accessibility; URLs, titles, and meta data; text; information architecture; and “canonical issues” surrounding duplicate content.
I will discuss the first two in this article, and the remaining three in a follow-up article.
The first issue I will address is accessibility.
An accessible site is one that delivers its content successfully as often as possible.
In other words, the site’s content can be found easily by both search engines and users.
This issue sometimes does not get taken as seriously as it deserves.
A number of factors affect the accessibility of a website.
These include how well the pages function, the validity of HTML elements, reliability of the site’s server, and others.
Problems with these features will cause search engine spiders to move on.
Web surfers, too, will select other sites to visit.
Do not ignore accessibility problems, but fix them promptly if you want to gain and keep a loyal following online.
Most sites encounter their biggest problems in accessibility in five basic categories.
These include link issues, HTML and CSS problems, forms and applications, file size, and server reliability.
In the next two sections, I will discuss each of these problems in more detail.
Spiders and site visitors hate encountering broken links.
If an HTML link is broken, how can they find the page’s content? It’s impossible.
Some SEOs believe that search engines lower the rankings on sites and pages that have many broken page links.
Do yourself and your visitors a favor: check your links regularly.
There are tools that can automate this process.
When you are coding the HTML and CSS for your website, please keep in mind that it must meet certain minimum requirements to function well and display successfully.
Only after meeting those requirements will your site’s pages be spidered and properly indexed by the search engines.
There is some debate about whether your site’s HTML and CSS must be fully in accordance with all of the guidelines laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), but it surely couldn’t hurt.
You can learn more about these guidelines at http://www.w3.org/; the site includes free services for validating your HTML and CSS code.
There are at least two reasons why you want to pay close attention to the forms and applications you include in your website.
First of all, if anything blocks content from being reached via direct hyperlinks, search engines may never find it.
That could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on whether you want it to be found.
(And it’s worth remembering that not only form submissions can block content, but other input-required elements, such as select boxes and JavaScript, can block content as well).
Likewise, if your forms do not function well, your site visitors may get frustrated and go elsewhere.
As with the search engines not finding content that you really want them to find, this is a bad thing.
It can’t be said often enough: users do not like sites that don’t work.
So make sure that the functionality of every item on your website that requires input from a visitor is checked before going live, and consider carefully the effect of blocking that content from search engines.
There are certain things for which bigger is not necessarily better on the Internet, and one of those is file size.
Most search engines will not fully index pages that are greater than 150K in size, unless they are really, really important (i.e.
lots of pages, particularly ones outside the website, link to that page).
If this seems unfair to you, consider the enormous index size, bandwidth, and load requirements of a search engine such as Google, and you might change your mind.
If you have a website for which you are building pages with very large amounts of content, you will want to keep the 150K limit in mind, especially if it is crucial that every word and page on your site is spidered and indexed.
SEO Chat has a tool called “Page Size Lookup” which can tell you the size of your web page; you can check it out at http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/page-size/.
Incidentally, another advantage to keeping your page sizes small, aside from search engines appreciating smaller pages, is that a smaller file size means that your pages will download faster for your users.
The final accessibility issue I would like to address is server reliability.
If your site’s server is slow, or it goes down more frequently than it should, spiders may have problems accessing it.
Needless to say, web surfers will have problems accessing the site as well.
Neither spiders nor surfers will be happy with a website that performs poorly.
If you are having problems with this issue, you will want to speak with your web host.
Some web hosts provide guarantees concerning uptime; you should be prepared to hold them to any written contracts.
If you cannot get satisfaction that way, you should consider switching hosts.
Web Hosters, located at http://webhosting.devshed.com/, offers a number of articles that provide advice on choosing a web host.
As a basic point, you typically get what you pay for; while there may be some companies that offer good web hosting services for free, if you run a business website, you should be prepared to invest some money in web hosting services to get the reliability that you need and your site visitors deserve.
URLs, title tags and meta tags describe your site and its pages to visitors and search engines.
They need to be relevant, compelling and accurate for your site to rank well in the search engines.
They are good points for including your keywords, since search engines tend give these areas a certain amount of weight when indexing web pages.
You want the URL of your pages to be both brief and descriptive.
The URL should reflect the site’s navigation.
URLs of individual pages should give some clue as to what the page is about, so a visitor seeing just the URL will know what they can expect to find.
This can be very tricky with dynamic URLs.
If the page provides data to a database so that the appropriate records can be displayed, both search engines and site visitors might gag when they see it.
For example, someone viewing a URL such as http://www.myopinionatedsite/reviews/ movies/Narnia knows that they will probably see a review of the recent movie made from the book “Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.” Compare that with the URL at Amazon for the page that features the three-DVD set for the same movie: http://www.amazon.com/gp/ product/B000069CFH/qid=1136761365/sr=8-1/ ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl74/ 104-6616978-9415132?n=507846&s=dvd&v=glance.
Note that qid=, r=, ref=, and so forth indicate dynamic parameters; these tell databases what records to retrieve.
Notice also that there are more than three dynamic parameters in this URL.
That is bad; ideally, there should never be more than two dynamic parameters in a URL.
Here is a point you might want to keep in mind about the well-written URL.
It can serve as its own anchor text when someone else picks it up and pastes it into other venues such as blogs or forums.
A search engine finding the first URL listed, then, might give credit to the page for myopinionatedsite, reviews, movies, and Narnia.
Notice that I said “might;” as with everything, this is subject to the search engine’s analysis.
But it is much more likely to happen than if your URLs look more like Amazon’s.
Title tags not only serve as a place to put keyword terms, they also help encourage people to visit your site.
Your title tag shows up in the blue link text and headline for a search engine result.
So you want it to be informative and draw visitors to your site, without sounding too much like sales text.
You should use the title tag to show your keywords, help brand the site, and sum it up as clearly and concisely as possible.
For instance, if your site is for a zoo, and you have a page devoted to tigers, don’t use simply “tigers” in the tag; try “Tigers — Habitat, Appearance, Behavior — Your Zoo’s Name.” Similarly, if you have a website for an electronics store, you probably have a title tag that reads something like “Plasma Televisions, Plasma TV, Plasma Screen TVs, SONY Plasma Screen TV, LCD TV at Your Store’s Name.” It would be much cleaner to use “Plasma Screen and LCD Televisions at Your Store’s Name.” Remember, your title tag provides a potential visitor with a first impression; a web surfer will decide whether to click on the link, or go elsewhere, based on what they see in the search engine results and how inviting they perceive it to be.
Meta tags matter for almost the same reasons.
While the use of meta tags, especially the meta keywords tag, has declined to the point that search engines no longer use them in their ranking of pages, potential site visitors still see them.
A number of search engines display the text of the meta tag below the clickable page title link in their results.
Because of this, while a description in the meta tags may no longer influence where a page ranks in the search engine results, it can still affect the number of visitors your site receives from search engines.
Note that meta tag descriptions are something a search engine may choose not to display; the odds are better that the description will be displayed if it is accurate, well-written, and relevant to the query made by the searcher.

Hamzeh Abu Zakham
by Hamzeh Abu Zakham , Director of Software Development , bayt.com

You have 2 options:
1- The easy way : paying to google for your website to appear on the top pages of Google search through Adwords, other search engines have similar approaches to display advertised results.

2- The hard way : applying best SEO (search engine optimization) technics such as: Content: - Making your content discoverable by search engines, submitting a site map to search engine will speed up content discovery.
- Having unique content, usually push the pages rank up.
- Understanding frequent keywords that people use to reach your website through search engines, and utilize these keyworkds more in metadata and page content Meta Data: - canonical url helps search engines to avoid content duplication - title tag is a much to be unique for every page, and should be relevent to the content of the page - meta description is very important to descripe your content in a way the users will be intereseted to read more ( usually seach engines uses it to dispaly a snippet about page content in seach results) Linkes to your website: - many seach engines counts the links to a domain, the more links from trusted - high ranked domains - will lead to increase your domain rank, and that is a vital factor that is going to effects the rank of all website pages.
Page speed: - building a fast web site is a weight that seach engines uses to rank domain, with more speed, the domain will be ranked better.
Page/URL structure: - using H tags is an important element for ranking titles in page content - a structured and nice url will be mode encouragin to users to click, and it's going to enhance the way search engines crawl and understand your website

Sanju Paison
by Sanju Paison , SEO/Copywriting Consultant , Remote Ad Consultants

All the above are useless unless you have relevant and useful content to offer.
After that, use keywords in url, title and text of each page.
That's most of the job done.

Panneer selvam xavier
by Panneer selvam xavier , Supply Chain Analyst / Trainer , Infonet

This things below will help some : Google offers Google Webmaster Tools, for which an XML Sitemap feed can be created and submitted for free to ensure that all pages are found, especially pages that are not discoverable by automatically following links To avoid undesirable content in the search indexes, webmasters can instruct spiders not to crawl certain files or directories through the standard robots.txt file in the root directory of the domain.
Additionally, a page can be explicitly excluded from a search engine's database by using a meta tag specific to robots.
When a search engine visits a site, the robots.txt located in the root directory is the first file crawled.
The robots.txt file is then parsed, and will instruct the robot as to which pages are not to be crawled.
As a search engine crawler may keep a cached copy of this file, it may on occasion crawl pages a webmaster does not wish crawled Cross Link A variety of methods can increase the prominence of a webpage within the search results.
Cross linking between pages of the same website to provide more links to most important pages may improve its visibility Content Writing content that includes frequently searched keyword phrase, so as to be relevant to a wide variety of search queries will tend to increase traffic Updating Content Updating content so as to keep search engines crawling back frequently can give additional weight to a site Metadata Adding relevant keywords to a web page's meta data, including the title tag and meta description, will tend to improve the relevancy of a site's search listings, thus increasing traffic

Feras Abualrub
by Feras Abualrub , Web Solutions Manager , Qistas for Information Technology

free solution: meta tags but it will take time to be ranked as top results.
paid solution: check google SE optimization and ads

Deleted user
by Deleted user

SEO! just follow some of the search engine optimization tips for a higher page rank, you can find some here: http://weblogs.about.com/od/searchengineoptimization/tp/HowIncreaseGooglePageRank.htm

Sally Ossman Wahba
by Sally Ossman Wahba , Chief Commercial officer , Tawasol IT

I would start out with SEM-Search Engine Marketing (Google adwords) first until I work on SEO-Search Engine optimization (Organic search) I can send you a detail presentation on how to do so its 17 slides

Shoaib Rehman
by Shoaib Rehman , Senior project manager , Etisal

google wants its top ranked website to be responsive- best response time and quality of content. SEO , SEM practices can push website to the top listings. Also through social media campaigns and microblogging will help you turning your website into real success.

 

 

pavi kavi
by pavi kavi , sf , greentech

There are three main steps to creating a own website.1) Register Domain Name2 ) Design your website3)Host your website

I have designed my own web site by using website builder tool. I got this website builder tool  Thewebpole.com  from this site then i made a colorful web site.Now my websites are very good look. you can also get the website builder tool from this site then build your website in your own style.

Here they are also providing search engine visibility service,you can get this service from this site,then increased your website page rank in google..

 

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Ahmed Hussein
by Ahmed Hussein , Digital & Social Media - Senior Account Manager , ASD'AA BCW

Create unique content for website Easy and simple navigation Use light design Optimize long tail keywords Optimize description, title, meta tag, heading and URL

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