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June 22, 2016 by Bill Treloar 3 Comments

How Do You Get Your New Website on Google?

On June 22, 2016 / Bing, Google, SEO practices, Yahoo / 3 Comments

Google’s the biggest, but …

Google, Yahoo & Bing logosDon’t ignore Bing and Yahoo! As of last month, Americans conducted 64% of their searches on Google, 22% on Bing, at 12% on Yahoo. That comes to 98% of all the searches done in the US, so there’s no need to worry about any other search engines. But don’t dismiss Bing and Yahoo. Even at only 12%, Yahoo handles more than 500 million searches a day in the US.

Fortunately, the things you need to do to get listed on Google are pretty much the same things that Yahoo and Bing need.

How do I submit my site to Google?

You don't need to submit your site to Google to show up and move up in rankings.You don’t. It’s worth repeating: you don’t need to submit your site to Google, Yahoo, Bing, or anywhere else. Submitting to search engines is kind of a scam from the past and a persistent myth. It’s not necessary as long as you have links to your website from other websites the search engines already know about. We explain that here.

6 Steps to Get on Google

  1. Figure out what keywords you need to be found for. These are the phrases your customers will use to find what you do or what you sell. Think in specifics. The best  keywords are probably not the one or two word basic searches like limousine. That’s too broad. Better would be limousine service in San Diego or car service to O’Hare airport.
  2. 6steps to get your brand new website on Google.Make sure your website is search engine friendly. That means your pages download quickly, your site works well on a phone, navigation is easy to follow, you have a sitemap the search engines can follow to get to all your pages, and so forth.
  3. Block search engine spiders until your site is ready for prime time. Important note: this applies only to brand new websites, not a redesign of an older website. You never want an existing site to become invisible to search engines.
  4. Create lots of content. Make your pages about specific, narrow topics. Focus them on the keywords you determined in step 1, and use logical variations on those phrases. If you do or sell more than one specific thing don’t try to cover all of it in one or two pages; flesh out your site with rich, engaging and helpful content.
  5. Keep creating content. Don’t feel you need to constantly tweak your pages or freshen them up, instead add new pages. The most natural way to do that is with a blog. Be sure your blog is on your domain and not hosted separately someplace like WordPress.com or Blogspot.com.
  6. Promote your content across the web. The easiest way to do this may be with social media: write posts on Facebook, tweet on Twitter, mention (and link to) your content on Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. Each one of these gets the word out to a different population, and each adds a new link to your website.

Search Engine Journal has an excellent article on this topic with good explanations about each of these six steps.

6 steps to get your brand new website on Google.

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That’s just the beginning …

These things will get your website into the indexes for Google, Yahoo & Bing, an essential first step to being found easily by customers. Once in the index, you should show up when people search for your keyword phrases. But if you’re showing up on page seven or eight, that’s probably not good enough. We have lots of ideas in this blog on how search engine optimization works to get you near the top of the rankings. If that’s a concern for you, this is a good place to start.

If you find you don’t have the time or inclination to do your own SEO, Rank Magic can help.

You can share this with friends & colleagues with the buttons on the left or the helpful tweet just above.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

January 5, 2013 by Bill Treloar Leave a Comment

3 Steps to Better Local Search Visibility

On January 5, 2013 / Bing, Google, local search, Yahoo / Leave a Comment

Local search use is way up

Nearly half (46%) of Google searches are for a local business and users are gravitating toward the local listings over the organic listings. So if your business serves local customers on a face-to-face basis you need to respond to that.

Here are three steps to take advantage of local search to build traffic to your website and in turn build new customers for your business.

  1. Big Three local search engine listings
  2. Citations
  3. Reviews
3 Steps to Better Local Search Visibility

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The Big Three

To start with, you need your own page at Google Business Profile, Yahoo Local, and Bing Places for BusinessLocal to even be considered for a local listing. You need to flesh it out as much as possible, with your logo, other images, information about your service area, hours of operations, payment methods accepted, and more. Then the more challenging part begins: getting citations and reviews.

Sample local search listing in Google

Citations

There are lots of local directories that people use to search, and it’s very helpful to ensure you’re listed on the most popular/powerful ones. Not only will it help your local SEO and your organic link authority, but these citations also provide another way for customers (or clients or patients) to find you.

Here’s a list of the biggest general ones that you need to be listed in:

  • Amazon Alexa
  • Brownbook
  • City Search
  • CitySearch
  • DexKnows
  • Dun & Bradstreet
  • EZLocal
  • HotFrog
  • Insider Pages
  • MapQuest
  • Merchant Circle
  • Nextdoor
  • Superpages
  • Yellow Pages
  • Yelp

Reviews

Make it easy for delighted customers to review you.Reviews from customers, clients, or patients can be very helpful. For one thing, they add legitimacy to your citations. So the more positive ones you have the more likely you are to be listed prominently in local search results. There’s also another thing. If you have a lot of stars and many excellent reviews, people reading your review will be more likely to click over to your website or call you.

I recommend asking a few delighted customers to go to one of the listings that accept reviews and write a few words about how they feel about you. Caution: don’t put words in their mouths and don’t try to phony up reviews yourself. Search engines are very conscious of the natural temptation to do that and are quite diligent about sniffing those out.

When asking a customer to write a review, it helps to provide them with a direct link to your listing page where there’s a clear “Write a Review” button.

Find this process a bit daunting? Rank Magic can help.

April 17, 2010 by Bill Treloar 35 Comments

Don’t Use Yahoo Site Builder

On April 17, 2010 / web design, Yahoo / 35 Comments

Don't use Yahoo Site BuilderOne factor we’ve seen that can hurt your rankings … and that almost no web site owner is aware of … is known by the tongue twister “canonicalization“.  Relating to the problem of inadvertently having content on your site that’s seen by search engines as duplicate content, it can be fixed by three lines of code. We explain all that on our web site and in optimization recommendations we provide for our clients.

The disappointing news

Unfortunately, Yahoo Site Builder can’t let you implement those simple three lines of code. We ran into this on behalf of a client of ours this month. When I wrote Yahoo for assistance, this is the response I got.

We’re sorry, but the feature you are mentioning is not currently available through Yahoo! Web Hosting, and we do not have an estimated date as to when or if it will be available. However, we’ll pass your comments on to our Development team for further consideration. Since Yahoo! is a share hosting service, we currently do not offer access to .htacess files.

When I pressed them for more details, they were no more helpful.

Bill, as mentioned in the earlier, if you would like to redirect http://hullcogarage.com to http://www.hullcogarage.com this has to be done using .htaccess or using 301 redirect and currently Yahoo! do not support both the options, hence we’re sorry to inform you that there is no other option to redirect hullcogarage.com to www.hullcogarage.com, we apologize for any inconvenience.

[Update:  If you created your site in Yahoo Site Builder, that platform has closed.]

When considering alternatives, you can refer to our strategic partners who do excellent web design and hosting.

We have more on this issue here.

Why not call us for a free consultation on the state of your website and what it would take to improve your search visibility?

At Rank Magic, we can fix that! Click here to get in touch or call us at 1-866-RANKMAGIC.

Are you a local business?

Increase your local search visibility on Google.We find that most businesses using or contemplating Yahoo Site Builder are local businesses who deal face to face with their customers. If that’s you, you should familiarize yourself with Local Search Optimization. To draw people who search by city, county, or even “near me” you need some special local optimization.

Because of that, we have a special program tailored to local businesses like yours.

Learn about local search optimization here.

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