Posts Tagged ‘Google’

• So, I have been watching very closely to see what would happen with our Google Wonder Wheel experiment and I have an update!

• If you have been following this experiment, you know we started on page 14, moved up to page 8, then it was slow moving to page 7…where we were stuck for a bit.  Click here to read first post.

• GREAT NEWS…we have moved to page 5 for the term “Door Hanger Printing”, which shows that paying attention to the Google Wonder Wheel can and does make a difference.

• Let me tell you some of the other steps I took to help “my cause” with Google.

• Though Google specifically tells you not to submit any page to the search engine which has a link from your home page, I did end up submitting the link after waiting…and waiting…and waiting for Google to crawl the page.  Submitting your site to Google

• Once Google finally crawled the page, we came up two more pages in the rankings to page five, in position #3.

• I have also added articles about “door hanger printing” to our PrinterBees Blog because as I have mentioned before, Google likes blogs because the content is fresh.

• You should also note that every time I have used the term “door hanger printing” in this particular post, I have linked back to the door hanger printing page on PrinterBees, creating another link.  ONE-WAY links pointing to your site are one of the factors Google considers when indexing all websites.  The more links you have, the better.  The more links you have from “authority sites”, even better!  I will explain “authority sites” in another post…it’s complicated.

• Use the above tips to help get your website/web pages linked on Google.  It really does work!

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• The experiment with the Google Wonder Wheel Continues and we are up seven pages in the Google Index in just six days for the search term “door hanger printing”.

• When we started the experiment by using the Wonder Wheel as a way to identify the proper keywords, we were indexed in the middle of the page 14 for the term “door hanger printing”.  The results are astounding and Google hasn’t even crawled the updated page yet!  (Read the details about the Wonder Wheel here)

• On September 15th, I made changes to the web page based on what I found on the Google Wonder Wheel, created a blog post on our PrinterBees blog and of course included the key words in my blog posts on this blog site.  As of today, the page is the bottom of page seven and when I reviewed the “cached” page, it shows that Google last crawled the page on September 14th, so I will need to be patient to see what happens when the search engine crawls the page again.  I have my fingers crossed and again invite to you watch as the experiment continues.

• P.S.  You may be wondering how I knew that Google hadn’t crawled the most updated version of my webpage since since the 15th of September.  In the image above, I have put a red box around the word “cached”.  If you click on the link “cached” it will show you the version of the page that Google is currently using to rank your site in the index.   It will also show the you a date on the top of the page, which is the last time Google crawled your site.  I hope this is helpful to you!!!  Don’t forget to read the initial article about the Google Wonder Wheel and how I used it to increase our rankings.

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In the last post, I described how to use the new tool found on Google to help your rankings and as promised will follow up with videos and posts to check our progress with this test.  This is a totally new approach for me to SEO, so we will learn as we go along and I will show you step by step what I have done and what I have changed to increase the rankings for the search term “door hanger printing“.

One of my other tactics is to make sure I am also creating links back to my website using the term Door Hanger Printing to help my cause of climbing up the ranks.  Currently, Printerbees is on middle of page 14 for the search term Door Hanger Printing.

The first video recorded in this series is located here. Hoping the “Google Wonder Wheel” will help us get ranking for Door Hanger Printing.

One Day – advanced 4 positions so far.  Up from middle of page 14 to the top of page 14.  Page 13, here we come!!!!

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Click here if you missed part 1 or part 2 of this series.  The information contained in part 1 and part 2.

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Getting  Indexed on Google Lesson Four:

Use the social media networks like YouTube, FaceBook and Twitter to name a few.  When we added the Mona.vie and Herbalife business cards to our product line, we created a web-page as well as individual blog posts for each product and a YouTube video.

The video was a simple slide show created using Picasa (a free Google photo organizing and editing product).  We announced the  new product lines, embedded the YouTube videos in to the blog posts as well as the new pages we created.   We were ranking on page one within a few days!

You will want to create your own YouTube channel and make sure to name your videos according to the key words you want to be found on.  I encourage you do to “podcasts” and post them on YouTube to create links to your site.  A great product for doing video pod casting is the “flip” hi definition digital video recorder.  It is about the size of a deck of cards, does great videos and comes with software that allows you to upload straight to YouTube.  What could be easier.

Using the social media networks creates links to your site.  An example of some of the social networks which should be on your radar are listed below this article.  Clicking on them will also allow you to bookmark this article which will help other people find it.

Getting  Indexed on Google Lesson Five:

Mixed media – What the heck is “mixed media“?  Mixed media is the use of text, images, video and sound and your blog.  Your blog is the perfect place for mixed media type content.

One of the most important things to remember with your images or anything media related is to NAME THEM PROPERLY.  This is so important, so I will say it again…NAME YOUR MEDIA FILES PROPERLY.

You are probably asking…how do I name them properly?  First let’s examine what NOT to do.  If the images in your website have names like “banner1.jpg” how does this help Google know what your website is about? Files not named properly tell Google a whole lot of nothing!

What if you named your images like we do on Printerbees.  On our “business card printing page”, the images have names like “business-card-printing.jpg” or “color-business-card-printing.jpg”.  When Google comes across these images, what do the file names tell Google about our website? It helps Google to know we are in the business card printing business.

One of the simple things often forgotten and overlooked is the use of “alternative text” also knows as “alt tags”, these tags that are always an option when you add in an image to your website or blog.  The “alt text” tags help people who are reading websites without downloading graphic images like on cell phones or don‘t automatically download images know what the images are.  Using alt tags also gives Google one more clue of where to index your site!  Every clue  you give Google helps your cause.

Happy Blogging and I encourage your questions, so that I can answer them not only for you, but for other people who may have similar questions they want answered.  Email your questions to nadine@nadineblogs.com

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