Check Position Of Your Website In Search Engine Result Pages For Specific Keywords

Search Engine Placement Check - Check your website's ranking in major search engine like google, yahoo and msn for targeted keywords.

Follow These Steps To Check Your Website's Placement In Search Engines :

1. You have to use Firefox version 2 or higher to get this to work. If you have not yet used Firefox go Download Firefox, and then come back to this page using Firefox as your web browser.
2. If you are already using Firefox version 2 or higher then Download Rank Checker Tool, Firefox add-on.
   
3. After this you need to restart Firefox.
4. After restarting, you will see icon of Rank Checker Tool in Firefox Status Bar (bottom, right side).
   
5. Double click this icon, type your Domain Name And Keyword and press ADD button.
6. Now press START button.
   
7. After 10 - 15 seconds results will be displayed and you will see position of your website in google, yahoo and msn.
8. If your website is not listed in top 200 results of any search engine then you will see a Dash Sign ( - ).
   
   

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Add A Copyright Notice To Your Website To Improve Its Ranking

Copyright gives the creator of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation. Web page having copyright notice is generally ranked higher by search engines ( like google, yahoo, live etc. ) because copyright notice gives an impression to the search engines about the originality of the content.

Copyright Notice Consists Of Following Elements :-

1. The Word " Copyright "
2. Copyright Symbol " © "
3. Year Of First Publication
4. Year Of Last Publication
5. Name Of Copyright Owner
6. Followed By The Sentence " All Rights Reserved "
   

Example Of Copyright Notice :-



Where To Place Copyright Notice In Your Website ?

Copyright notice can be placed anywhere in your website but it is generally placed at the bottom ( or Footer ) of web page.

How To Update Your Copyright Notice ?

If the year of your first publication is 2007 and year of your last publication is 2008 then your copyright notice will have following years, 2007 - 2008. Now, when you publish any content in the year 2009 then change the year 2008 to 2009. Now your copyright notice will have following years , 2007 - 2009. Don't forget to update copyright notice every year.

Add Meta Keywords Tag To Your Site's Homepage

What is Meta Keywords Tag ?

Meta keywords tag contribute to your search engine ranking. A meta keywords tag is supposed to be a brief and concise list of the most important words of your page.

How To Add Meta Keywords Tag ?

This meta tag is usually placed beneath the title, within the first HEAD section of your web page.

HTML Code Example:

Submit Your Blog To The Popular Blog Directories

Basic link building for blogs begins with listing them in blog directories. Adding your blog to blog directories will increase links to your blog and thus improves your website popularity.

Submit Your Blog To The Following Blog Directories :

1. Bloghub.com

2. Blogged.com

3. Blogsearchengine.com

4. Blogcatalog.com

5. Britblog.com

6. Superblogdirectory.com

7. Bloglisting.net

8. Blog-directory.org

9. Blogs-collection.com

10. Blogadda.com

11. Blogfolders.com

12. Blogarama.com

13. Linkwith.us

14. Bloggapedia.com

Submit Your Blogs Feed As A Sitemap To Search Engines

If you have a blog with an RSS or Atom feed, you can submit your blogs feed as a Sitemap. Most blog software automatically creates feed for your blog. If your blog doesn't have a feed, you can use Feedburner to create and publish feed.

Submit Your Blogs Feed To Major Search Engines

1. Google.com
Free submit feed : http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

2. Yahoo.com
Free submit feed : https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

3. Msn.com
Unlike Google and Yahoo, MSN not have a facility for webmaster to submit their feed. MSN crawls and index the feed submitted at Moreover.com . So you need to submit your blogs feed at Moreover.com so that they can be indexed and crawled by MSN.

Free submit feed :
http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=http://www.your~blog~name.com/atom.xml

Please Note - Change this URL " http://www.your~blog~name.com " with your blog URL, then copy paste in your browser and press enter.

4. Ask.com
Free submit feed :
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.your~blog~name.com/atom.xml

Please Note - Change this URL " http://www.your~blog~name.com " with your blog URL, then copy paste in your browser and press enter.

Introduction to SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a technique of manipulating the pages of your website to be easily accessible by search engine spiders so they can be easily crawled and indexed.

What are search engine spiders?

A spider is a robot that search engines use to search billions of web pages. A page is indexed by the search engines only when it is crawled by the search engine spiders.

What is website ranking?

Website ranking means the position where the pages of your websites are placed by the search engines. Whenever a topic is typed in search engine for search, the search engine will immediately search all the pages it has indexed about and present you with ones that match your topic. The indexed pages are ranked according to the relevance, so that the most relevant ones come first.

What are the benefits of SEO?

SEO drives traffic to your websites from search engines by bringing your website to the notice of prospective customers. SEO is the most effective website marketing tool.

" A website without SEO is just like a shop without salesperson. "