Guidelines from Google on Improving Your Rankings

[agent_44]

I thought, with a couple of website related posts and the SEO subject frquently popping up at the moment, that this woudl be a useful link for people. It's the webmaster guidelines from Google to help your site get found, indexed and ranked.

Contrary to popular belief and what had been mentioned here a couple of times recently, it's not the tetual content of your home page that will 'get you to the top of google' although textual content of the WHOLE SITE is a factor. Google actually works out rankings from the 'number of high quality links to your site from other sites'. So for example, if the BBC had a link to your site from it's own somewhere (how cool would that be!) it would really help your Google rankings since Google already ranks the BBC very highly.

Anyway Google can explain it better than I, so enjoy

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=35769

[Emerald]

thats really helpful, thanks very much agent 44

[EmmaRose]

bbc maybe not, but you can use a high ranked site like facebook. otherwise I have found organisations are great, crafts central and society designer craftsmen get me righ up there....