What is the most cost effective way to improve my ranking in google
search engines?
www.tkporter.com

Hi, 

Okay, 

See all of this here in your page code :

meta name="keywords" CONTENT="dabase, online database, affordable
development, verisign, web, site, development, free domain, web
hosting, domain name, domain registration, domain, ecommerce, hosting,
cheap web hosting, domain registration, cgi, perl, internetdomain, web
site hosting, affordable web hosting, Unix, Virtual hosting,
Virtualhosting, Name based hosting">
meta name="description" content="tkporter.com - Low Cost Startup -
$50.00/month Web-Site Hosting">
META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">
META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="3 days">
META NAME="DC.title" CONTENT="tkporter.com - $50.00 cent per month
Web-Site Hosting">
META NAME="DC.subject" CONTENT="Web-Site Hosting starting at $50.00
per month">
META NAME="DC.description" CONTENT="Web-Site Hosting starting at
$50.00 per month">
META NAME="DC.Language" SCHEME="RFC1766" CONTENT="EN">
META NAME="DC.Coverage.PlaceName" CONTENT="Global">
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">

All of that is completely ignored. It's not even looked at by Google
bots. So we are left with,... what is in the body:

object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
  codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash4/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
  id="new" width="600" height="400">
  param name="movie" value="new.swf">
  param name="quality" value="high">
  param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
  embed name="new" src="new.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000"
    width="600" height="400"
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
  /embed>
/object>

That's all the bot sees. Since you have no text in there at all, your
page will stay un-rated and probably missing from action on the search
engines for a very long time. We are talking years. Eventually in five
or 6 years they may list you because they might be able to read flash
programs by then, but not until that time.

What you need is text on the page. Real text, not images with text in
them. About 300-500 words. They need to be a different color than the
background and they should match with what you are doing and who you
are.

Also, you need pages. You have two pages. 25-100 is a good size for a
mid-range ranked site.

I have some reading for you to do, and will fill in all the blanks on
PageRank and getting listed. Good luck in your efforts. And by the
way, you do really nice graphic work there. The design is very nice.
I'm going to be interested to see how you incorporate that with the
needs for getting listed.

To see PageRank for a page, you can use the GoogleBar, which can be
found here if you don't already have it installed.
http://toolbar.google.com/ 


Google Webmaster page, read this through completely. 
://www.google.com/webmasters/ 

Understanding and Building Google PageRank
http://www.topsitelistings.com/optimization_strategies/googlepagerank.htm

Google Under the Scope -- good gathering of FAQ's 
http://www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/google_faq.htm 
 
Tools to check your website  
http://www.searchengineworld.com/index.htm 
 
What Google has to say about PageRank 
://www.google.com/technology/index.html 
 
PageRank: Bringing Order to the Web 
http://hci.stanford.edu/~page/papers/pagerank/ 


Thanks, 

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 21 Nov 2002 18:01 PST

Whoa there hoss..! :-)

I just read your comment in the rating. Thank you by the way. But...

Paying for advertisement is not going to help you. Google is not a pay
for ranking search engine, so you are cutting out Yahoo, AskJeeves and
Google (which for most websites these days equals 80% of your
traffic). You will be paying 200%-500% more in advertising dollars,
for %20 of the possible bang.

Okay, my conscience is clear. I can rest and answer something else
now. You have a great day.

webadept-ga

Perfect answer.  I thought it was a pain in the ass, but knowing
exactly what I've got to do helps.  The links are helpful too.  I'll
probably just end up paying for adversing since it is cheap compared
to the time it would take.

Hopefully it won't be too long before all the search engines index
Flash pages. AlltheWeb are first off the block, see this search
result:

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?advanced=1&cat=web&type=all&q=flash&jsact=&l=any&ics=iso-8859-1&cs=iso-8859-1&wf%5Bn%5D=3&wf%5B0%5D%5Br%5D=%2B&wf%5B0%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B0%5D%5Bw%5D=&wf%5B1%5D%5Br%5D=-&wf%5B1%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B1%5D%5Bw%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Br%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Bw%5D=&dincl=&dexcl=&geo=&limip=&doctype=swf&dfr%5Bd%5D=1&dfr%5Bm%5D=1&dfr%5By%5D=1980&dto%5Bd%5D=21&dto%5Bm%5D=11&dto%
By%5D=2002&size%5Bp%5D=%3D&size%5Bv%5D=&size%5Bx%5D=0&depth%5Bp%5D=%3E&depth%5Bv%5D=&hits=10&nooc=on

Wow.. that is way cool. Thanks robertskelton. I wasn't aware of that. 

webadept-ga

Of course, I meant advertising with Google!

I don't think you are getting it.. Advertising with Google, will not
get you listed with Google. The two are very separate. I just want you
to understand that. You can not pay enough to get a listing on Google.
You can get the Adwords program, and it is worth the money, now
argument there. But it will not help with your listing in the search
engine.

Okay, I'm off. Thanks, 

webadept-ga