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Q about being found in search engines 2
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Hi Tina,
Simple answer, Yes.
The signature not only helps the engines find your site but some also increase your ranking depending on the amount of sites linking to you.
Hope this helps Wullie
sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Simple answer, Yes.
The signature not only helps the engines find your site but some also increase your ranking depending on the amount of sites linking to you.
Hope this helps Wullie
sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
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Another thing, does it make a difference whether the site linking to you has a google rating of 10 or 1 or are they all the same? (I'm assuming that multiple links from the same site to your site doesn't help except to increase the chance of being found, right?)
Rick
Rick
Hi mate,
Let's say that Yahoo has a link to your site on their home page, then your site would rank a lot higher than if the link was on an unknown site.
The linking structure keeps going. A site that has millions of other sites linking to it and contains your link, will improve your ranking better than a site with 1 other site linking to it.
Hope this helps Wullie
sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Let's say that Yahoo has a link to your site on their home page, then your site would rank a lot higher than if the link was on an unknown site.
The linking structure keeps going. A site that has millions of other sites linking to it and contains your link, will improve your ranking better than a site with 1 other site linking to it.
Hope this helps Wullie
sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Yes, that does help. So link popularity is based on the number of different sites linking to it? I am finishing up a site that will have around 3,000 pages + all the pages in the message boards (PHP + MYSQL is so nice! I only had to make 70. The rest are all dynamic). If I had a link to my homepage in the sig for every page, my link popularity would still be just 1? I'm expecting this site to have a VERY high google rating when I finish and upload the only sheet music online for 800 Arabic songs plus all the other stuff. And finally, how does a link from an unknown site compare to a link from a known site? Is there some type of rule (I love rules!)? I know that I've been a big pain (like usual ;-)) but I'm fairly new to search engine stuff. Do you have any good tutorials? I've been to searchenginewatch.com but that seems to be mostly for small engines (which is good to know) but I really want to target google mostly.
Thanks,
Rick
Thanks,
Rick
Hi mate,
I will let you into a little secret that not a lot of people seem to know.
Query strings are sometimes read by Google as a different site. Having said that, this is not always the case, but using query strings in url's has increased the ranking of at least 1 site that I run. Searches that produce that site, return query strings in the url and some searches show all the top 5 or so results as pages on my site.
Hope this helps Wullie
sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
I will let you into a little secret that not a lot of people seem to know.
Query strings are sometimes read by Google as a different site. Having said that, this is not always the case, but using query strings in url's has increased the ranking of at least 1 site that I run. Searches that produce that site, return query strings in the url and some searches show all the top 5 or so results as pages on my site.
Hope this helps Wullie
sales@freshlookdesign.co.uk
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
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