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Search Engine Placement Improvement
By Bob Schwartz, CRS, GRI ©2007 Promotions Unlimited All rights reserved.
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To achieve that top placement in the search engines there are a few key elements for example, your site must have good design, proper key word density, intuitive navigation, correct Meta tags and informative content. Law firm sites often forget the impact of quality incoming links on the search engine rankings.
Google, the acknowledged leading search engine, isn't looking so much at word density with its ranking algorithm, as at what other sites are linking to your firm’s site. Google relies primarily on link popularity for ranking pages. They assign a PageRank to each site they index with 10 being the highest. The vast majority of quality sites rank at least four or above. Google isn't breaking away from words-on-the-page -- it never started there.
The logic is that pages other people think are valuable resources will often get linked by other webmasters, while pages that are of low quality or do not contain any information at all, will not gain many links. Thus, the Top10 places will be filled with sites people regard as useful. It does make sense and it adds another way for SE's to rate your website with minimal effort. Virtually all Webmasters these days are aware of the fact that exchanging linkbacks with other sites is an excellent method for building traffic.
The problem is that this change might make it even more difficult for small and new sites to make it to the top and it favors big, high-traffic mega sites. There is a software program that can greatly help in you getting the links that you desire. It does all this automatically. Click here to find out more.
More links are not better unless all of them are high-quality links. Numbers aren't as important as context and relevancy. It is better to have a few links from sites that are similar in content and topic to yours, a few links from the portals, and a few links from site reviewers, than to have 1,000 links on Free For All (FFA) links pages. Actually, in practice, non-themed links can actually lower a site’s search engine placement. This is especially true when lazy webmasters join link swapping plans in hopes of having ‘instant’ mega, in-coming links. These services are designed to immediately boost your link popularity. The way they work is simple: Each member of a link-share program places a machine-generated page on his site and links to that page from his front page. The machine-generated page has links to all other sites participating in the program. Each member submits his machine-generated page to all search engines, and the result is that each member has a link to his site from everyone else.
This is what Google says about these programs: “Avoid SEOs that talk about the power of "free-for-all" links, link popularity schemes, or submitting your site to thousands of search engines. These are typically useless exercises that do not affect your ranking in the results of the major search engines. At least, not in a way you would likely consider to be positive”. Even though these programs may have been effective in the past, you can see now that many search engines regard them as spam and often ban sites that they find participating in these programs. I strongly advise you no to get involved, no matter the desperation.
Quality link partners can best be found within the top three pages of search engine results when using popular legal key word phrases. These phrases should also reflect the geographic area your firm is located. Lets say you have an auto accident firm in San Diego, a good key word phrase would be: San Diego auto accident lawyer, San Diego accident lawyer or more generic phrases like San Diego attorneys, San Diego law. Excluding the sponsored sites, see who is on page one and send them an email asking for a link exchange. Alternatively, consider sites on Google ranking within the first five pages of results. Links from other legal related sites are also very valuable.
As a free service exclusively for the legal community, our dozen top rated legal directories have just implemented a free reciprocal award linking program. There is no obligation to join our directories and if your site qualifies, our top rankings will create a valuable linkback for your firm. To check out the program, just click here, or send me an email.
Your site will soon benefit from all that the Internet offers with an appropriate linking program. Again, quality incoming links are the key to improved rankings which in turn lead to increased business.
If your legal practice is located in California, Texas or Las Vegas, Try a free basic trial listing in our legal directories! Just CLICK HERE to view our details and entry form.
Copyright 2007 Promotions Unlimited. All rights reserved.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Schwartz, is the founder of Promotions Unlimited http://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com an Internet legal directory (CA, TX & Las Vegas ) publisher and search engine placement technology analyst. You can contact Bob via e-mail at bob@websitetrafficbuilders.com or visit his San Diego legal directory at: www.sandiegolawyerforyou.com
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