Archive for the ‘Get found on Google’ Category

Lesson one:

GET A BLOG!!! I know I sound like a broken record if you have read my free report on “Profitable Blogging“, but I wouldn’t keep mentioning it if it weren’t so important.

If you haven’t read the free report (no strings attached!),  you must read the report, it includes greater detail about why blogging is imperative to your success with ranking on Google.  Make sure when you get your blog, to use your own domain name and to do the hosting through HostGators so you can take advantage of the tutorials on setting up your word press blog step-by-step.  They have a super user friendly interface and you will be glad you chose them.

Lesson Two:

Blog!  Your blog will do you absolutely no good, if you don’t actually blog on it.  If you don’t feel it is something you can keep up with, hire someone to blog for you.  Blogging is really what will help your rankings and is the fastest and easiest way to accomplish “getting found on Google”.  One of the things that Google “spiders’’ look for as they crawl the Internet is new/fresh content.
Blogging = new and fresh that is also the most current.

Lesson Three:

When you blog, make sure that you use the keywords you wish to rank for in your blog AND that they link either to a page on your blog/website or to another blog post to create internal links in your website.  This is also called “deep linking”
Let me give you an example:

In the PrinterBees blog, when you see posts for Keller Williams Business cards and the words Keller Williams business cards in the blog post, those words link directly to the Keller Williams business card page on our website.  If you think of Google like the largest librarian on the planet and this librarian is in charge of making sure things are organized properly in this huge library, The Internet.  This link to your main web pages will hold more weight because the key word is in the link. In this blog post, I have created three “key word links” to the PrinterBees, Keller Williams business card page that ARE MY KEYWORD.  When Google crawls this page AND finds these links which include my keywords, it is another hint about where to index the site and it’s relevance to the person who has typed in “Keller Williams Business Cards”.  At the time of this post, PrinterBees is listed on page 1 in the number 8 position.

This is a lot to work on and take in, there are more lessons coming on the simple things you can do to improve your rankings.  Stay tuned, visit frequently or subscribe to the RSS to make sure you catch the next lesson.

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• There are lots of techniques and a bit of a science to getting your website found on Google.  I am going to do my best to explain some of the most simple and basic things to increase rankings.  If the information I have given you here doesn’t do the trick, it is best to hire a professional. Hiring an SEO Company that knows what to do and NOT do will help you. You must follow Google’s rules if you want to play in their “sand box”.

• Getting your website to page one of Google is like hitting PAYDIRT, IF the search term you rank for is a term people other than yourself are searching for.  I have heard more times than I can tell you, “my website comes up on page 1!”   Yes it comes up on page one, but only when you type in some “long tail search term like “online printing companies located in Dublin, CA”.   I am willing to bet that my printing company PrinterBees would come up somewhere on page one for this term without any effort.  Just a hunch as it would be the most “relevant result” for that search.

• “Long tail search terms” like stated won’t help your cause, and you don’t want to focus on a search term you will never stand a chance of ranking for like “printing”or “mortgage”, which is very generic and highly competitive.

• For my printing business, it would be crazy for us to think we could get the term “business cards” as a newer online business.   Because we print business cards for companies like Keller Williams, Century 21, ACN, Herbalife, Mona.vie and specialize in real estate printing or real estate marketing these would be good terms to focus on and not as competitive.  While they don’t have the traffic and the search volume that a term like “business cards” would have, it will help us gain popularity when we rank and improve our Google Ranking which will in turn help us rank for more popular terms moving forward.

• Because I really do want you to see that what I am explaining here really does work, I encourage you to “Google” the terms I have listed above so you can see that we really do rank on page one of those particular search terms.  At the time of writing this article, we are working on other terms to improve our rankings.  Those terms are “bookmark printing”, “print bookmarks”, “online printing’,  “business card printing”, “door hanger printing”, color flyer printing”, “hang tag printing”, “save the date magnets” and a few others that I can’t think of at the moment.  Feel free anytime to check our progress, I feel the best way to teach is to lead by example.

• A few words about Google and why Google matters so much to your success on the Internet.  Think of Google as a librarian, a really busy librarian!  This particular librarian sends you business….lots of business and you aren’t even required to pay a fee for all the business the librarian sends you!  It is all FREE!!!!   (Yes, you can do pay per click, but why when you get traffic for FREE)  We all use Google because we can pretty much always find what we are looking for when we “google” something, right?  Would you keep using Google if every time  you went to search for something, you didn’t find what you were looking for?  Not a chance!  So, if Google wants us to keep coming back, and they do…they have to consistently give us good and relative results or we will find a new “internet librarian” to help us.  The only way that Google can continue to give “googlers” accurate search results is if we, as website owners/webmasters do a good job of communicating to Google exactly what our websites are about and help Google to understand what categories our websites should be filed under.  If Google isn’t clear where your website should be indexed, it is most likely just sitting out there in cyberspace not accomplishing anything for you other than being printed on your business cards, fliers, banners, postcards or other printed materials you use to market your business.  Your marketing efforts in this day and age should include some sort of Internet marketing plan and if it doesn’t, you will be eventually left behind, sorry to say that, but it is true. The Internet has well over 2 BILLION searches done on it every month and if you think your services or business offerings aren’t being searched, you are definitely still living in the early 1990’s.

• This video produced by Google in late 2008 helps to explain how to “speak Google”, get ranked on Google and more importantly how NOT to spam the search engines and lower your rankings. Google wants you to succeed and they will give you very specific instructions if you just listen to what they have to say and more importantly FOLLOW THE RULES.

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