Trying To Rank Better in Google and Bing Help!!

21 Jun 10 12:26 am

you probably have not been de indexed. google changed their algorithm lately and it changed search results for everyone.

Nobody really knows all the factors that each search engine looks at. the biggest factor for all of them is your anchor text in your backlinks, and internal links. make sure your pages get an A in on page seo using Traffic Travis, wich checks all your onpage efforts. Then as you build backlinks, use your keyword in your hyperlink.
it can take hundreds or thousands of links depending on your keywords. also, the volume of content that you have on your site is a factor to look at. if you have less than 30 pages, you will struggle to get any rankings. they are all looking more and more to give rankings to sites with authority, and you cant get that with a mini site. The Taxi site just does not have enough content. maybe write some articles on where all people can go in Orlando, write about the attractions, or something. I know this place is big enough, I am in Altamonte.

22 Jun 10 3:05 am

more and more rankings are dependent on the amount of content on the site, and the number of backlinks that you have. the minimum I have on my sites is 40 pages of content with articles, reviews of different products and services etc...

I tried building a few minisites and with thousands of backlinks i still couldnt drive them up the rankings. they would go up briefly, but then they would disapear quickly. I have found that the more pages I have on a site, the more stable the rankings that i get can be.

01 Jul 10 6:07 pm

i have seen the sniper sites too. this is a large part of the recent change by google to rank authority sites higher on keywords they are not optimized for.

the sniper method isnt bad, it is how people used it. most of the sites wer just promotional crap with no value for the visitors, and so google has responded to wipe them out.
at the end of the day that is what gooogle is looking for. the more quality content you have on a site, the better it will do all the way around. your visitors will come back, etc... Ihave several sites using the sniper method but with a lot of articles. I am talking a 40-50 page site, targeting 500-700 monthly search keywords, and maybe 1000 backlinks, mostly through bookmarking, and they rank p 1 for those low search keywords, even with the latest changes. then I focus on building more traffic through forums, guest blog posts, and social sites.

09 Jul 10 1:46 am

Well once your site hits 40-50 pages, it's no longer really a sniper site. It's a nice size authority site that Google will love. What's your monthly traffic figures like for those sites of yours? I'd imagine they would be much higher than a typical 10 page sniper site.

I personally avoid social bookmarking for the most part. If I do it, I only use mixx or digg. I've had bad experiences with massive bookmarking. I used to do hundreds of bookmarks to my sites and my sites actually lost rankings from it. With new sites, it's important to not do more than 20-30 links in the first month from my testing. I usually digg my new sites and then wait a few weeks before doing any more links. I just focus on content for those first few weeks.

13 Oct 11 11:58 pm

Even though Bing and Yahoo are owned by the same parent company, Yahoo has been allowed to maintain its own autonomy. Each of the three major search engines have separate and distinct factors that they test a site for in their algorithms. The one factor all the search engines revere is QUALITY ARTICLES.

By creating a website that provides true value to your website visitors your site will eventually be recognized. Oddly, I have found it easier to rank for Bing and Yahoo than I have Google. Either way, after building quality backlinks to your website your site will receive the recognition it has earned.

Avoid the temptation of using "Black Hat" SEO techniques. These black hat methods may build quick backlinks to your site however when the actions are discovered by the search engines their backlink juice is likely to be highly discounted. The worst case scenario for using black hat techniques is having your website black listed. The risks outweigh the temporary benefits.

I have been following Matt Carter's "Backlink BluePrint" program. This program suggests the primary quality backlink ingredient is diversity. When we have followed the Backlink Blueprint guide lines the search engine search results have noticeably improved.

Margene Smith