Thursday
The Missing Link Will Get Search Engine Referrals
 There are several websites that will submit your blog to lots of search engines for free.I remember using these services when I started blogging but really they are a waste of effort as the search engines will find your site anyway - if you have inward bound links that is. More importantly though we have to accept that three search engines dominate the market: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. comScore data for example shows that these three account for over 90% of searches. The August figures showed: Yahoo! 19.6% Microsoft 8.3% Ask 4.8% AOL 4.3% I know from my own stats that most of my search engine referrals arrive from Google. I just looked at a couple of my celeb blogs and 77% of the search engine referrals were from Google. It therefore makes sense to try and comply with what Google recommends. Read such things as their Webmaster Guidelines and Webmaster Central Blog for advice. I received details of what Google's Maile Ohye has said about links and PageRank. He said, "As many of you know, relevant, quality inbound links can affect your PageRank (one of many factors in our ranking algorithm). And quality links often come naturally to sites with compelling content or offering a unique service." My underlining. It's not necessarily the number of links that matter but their quality. Their algorithm ignores spammy links or those from a spammy site. It does seem that Google almost want links to happen naturally, no buying etc. So how do you do this? The following are suggestions from Maile Ohye to webmasters in general. "Start a blog: make videos, do original research, and post interesting stuff on a regular basis. If you're passionate about your site's topic, there are lots of great avenues to engage more users.The advice is probably similar to what we have heard before. I personally dislike being told what to do or how to do something by some big organisation or government but the reality is that, at the present time, Google is all powerful. Without their referrals several of my blogs wouldn't have worthwhile money making traffic. As traffic to me is everything, in making money with blogs, I'll have to take heed of what they say and expect. At the moment that is ... Good luck, Mike. Ad: Make Money With Your Articles. Get paid for the articles you write. Labels: Blogs, Search Engines |
"I personally dislike being told what to do or how to do something by some big organisation or government but the reality is that, at the present time, Google is all powerful."
And they really want to make sure we know it too...
The trouble is that this is what Google wants us to believe (the quality content thing), but the reality is often different when you see some of the stuff which makes the first page.
But all the little guy can do is go along with this and look for a few "extras" to help them along...
Damn, I hate being like this because all the free blogs hosted at blogger or wordpress get tons of traffic from google and those who have their own blogs like me, barely get like 4-6 hits a day from google.
Anyways thanks for dropping a comment over at my blog, hope to see you again!
Zania: Must agree about the quality of some of the first page searches but, unfortunately, some of the black hat and other scams do work - for a while at least.
abdul: I think though that can also be down to layouts, SEO and all sorts of other stuff as well.
Thanks for the comments.
Mike.