| February 16, 2009
Increasing Your Rankings
Getting your website up into the top rankings is a large component in
being able to have people find you. It works from behind the scenes and
is a direct result of your work you do with submitting your site to search
engines and the various back links and reciprocal links you can achieve.
How is that possible? There is a magical formula that I stumbled upon.
I began to connect with authors on Facebook and SelfGrowth.com and have
put links to my books on those sites. You can’t imagine what an oddity
it truly is to launch a website and have it rise to the level of a major
fortune 100 company’s website.
April 2008 my Create Your Own Reality book site was not even ranked,
by June it was at 1.1 million. By October I got it to barely over a half-million.
Then I started focusing on my newer book and it’s back down to 1.5 million.
But that’s great! You need to keep up the activity on each site or your
rankings will drop.
One of the methods to keep your rakings high is to submit articles to
ezines that relate, exchange links with like-topic sites and of course,
keep your activity up on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter activity. The relationships
you create there are going to drive your recognition up even higher.
February 2, 2009
Submitting Your Website
If you would like to get your website noticed, and who wouldn’t? That’s
the name of the game here! Getting noticed! One of the things you want
to do is submit your website to Yahoo, Google and Alexa. I don’t pay as
much attention to the first to, but I track my results monthly on Alexa.
They keep you informed as to the level of ratings of your site. If you
get your site up to one million, you are in the top 1% of all websites
in the world.
You can pay for submission services, but that will hurt your website
as far as the search engines are concerned. There are many search engines
to submit your site to, but if you concentrate on the top three, it will
do for the interim.
Eventually you will want to consider hiring someone to submit your site
to all the search engines. If you’re up to it, here’s the basic list:
• Alexa
• Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
• Google
• Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
• Wikia Search
• Yahoo! Search
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