Does Google Like Your Website?
Posted on April 16th, 2010 in Online Marketing & Promotion, Search Engine Optimisation, Website Management & Improvement.
Tags: better website, bing, google, guidelines, search engines, webmaster, websites, yahoo
If you want to get people onto your website from search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing you need to ensure your website complies with their guidelines. There are a lot of techniques that you can implement on your website that don’t do it any good – either the search engines can’t see what you’re showing your visitors (using javascript, for example) or it goes against good practice and can be seen as a spammy technique (like repeating words in your text to rank your site higher). How can you ensure your website complies to their guidelines and that the search engines end up liking your website?
First of all, read up on the guidelines offered on the search engine websites. Google’s webmaster guidelines are a great place to start. Also check out Yahoo’s search quality guidelines as well as Bing’s guidelines for successful indexing.
Feed the Bot is a good resource as this takes those guidelines and breaks them down for you to follow and understand better, breaking down the areas that you need to address to ensure your website is up to scratch in terms of the search engines – design and content, quality and the more technical areas.
Follow the guidelines laid out at these places and you’ll be well on your way to a better website that the search engines love and are happy to send people there. One that doesn’t meet their guidelines is unlikely to be indexed in the search engines and you won’t be getting any traffic from a site that isn’t indexed.
Finally, if your website has recently disappeared from Google, ensure it follows the above guidelines and submit a reconsideration request to them. If they can see your site now follows their guidelines they may include you in their indexes again.
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