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Subject: Search Engine Placement
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: barbara1941-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 06 Jan 2003 22:06 PST
Expires: 05 Feb 2003 22:06 PST
Question ID: 138648
A few weeks ago, a website I built for a client came up within the top
5 under the following search words: barn builder - Florida;  Horse
Barns - Florida; Horse Barn Builder-Florida; Barn Builder; or  Horse
Barn Builder. Today when I checked, that website does not come up when
I type in the same search words or anything similar.  How come? What
happened?  The web address is www.ConcreteBarns.com
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Subject: Re: Search Engine Placement
Answered By: webadept-ga on 06 Jan 2003 22:21 PST
 
Hi, 

barn builder - Florida  = 22
horse barns- Florida = 23
Horse Barn Builder Florida = 10

Current PageRank is 4 of 10.

In other words, you are still coming up, but you have moved down,
probably because of this months re-indexing which most of us call, the
Google Dance. Since the page is Ranked at 4, it can move around quite
a bit during the Google dance and when other pages grow in Page Rank,
this one will continue to drop.

Right now Google only sees 3 outside pages linking to you
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=link%3Awww.concretebarns.com

I don't know what the number was before, but if it dropped then this
could be a cause.

I would concentrate your efforts though in optimizing the current page
for PageRank, rather than looking for outside links.  Here are some
reference links to help you out with this task.


To get an idea of what a google-bot sees when it goes to your site, 
try using the program on this page : 
  
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi  
  
There are several other small utilities that will help you out on 
there as well. 
 
Here is some reading to help you understand and use PageRank to the
best possible effect on your website. You can see your PageRank by
installing the Google Bar. You can find that here.
http://toolbar.google.com/ 
  
A large FAQ file about Google can be found on this site.   
  
http://www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/google_faq.htm  
  
And that will help you out a great deal.   
  
Google's page about the basics of Do's and Don'ts located here : 
://www.google.com/webmasters/dos.html  
 
 
Use a robots.txt file on your site in the main area. Many search 
engines will not index a site unless this file exists. For information
on this file you can go here : 
  
Robots.txt syntax checker  
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~sxw/robots/check/  
  
The Web Robots Pages  
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html  
 
 
Search Engine Guide: Orbidex: Safe and Smart Site Submissions   
http://www.searchengineguide.com/orbidex/2001/0824_orb1.html   
   
Google Search Engine Webmaster page    
://www.google.com/webmasters/    
    
Google Support Discussion Group.     
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=google.public.support
    
Search Engine Forum at JimWorld    
http://www.searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi    
 
  
Google explains Page Ranking  
://www.google.com/technology/index.html  
 
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hyper-textual Web Search Engine  
http://www-db.stanford.edu/%7Ebackrub/google.html  
 
 
thanks

webadept-ga
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