Search Engine Ranking
Search Engine Ranking is all about getting top ranked search terms to bring prospects to your site. If you depend on traffic coming through your site, this is extremely important. Searchers almost never go past the first ten listings. Google, Yahoo and MSN are the most important search engines to get good listing with. Many webmasters know how to make good websites but don.t know much about search ranking. This can be a problem if they also advertise this service but fail to deliver.
Search Engine Ranking can include finding the right sites to link with. For example, if you get a real estate site to link to a sports apparel site, the Search Engines will see that the content does not match and will not consider the link to important. Also, sites that have more links pointing to them are considered more important by the search engines, so it is very important to get links from sites that important. When linking with partners it is best to get links with pages that only have 40-60 links on them.
Google uses PageRank as one indicator of inbound links. It is not always a sure indicator of the quality, but after the page rank gets higher than 5 you usually know that the site has many .important. links pointing to it. Your PageRank will be an indicator of the quality of the sites linking to you. Getting links from pages with a PargeRank of 0 can still be beneficial, especially if they provide quality traffic.
The most important tool along with PageRank is getting good content. It is useless to have a good PageRank but have little content with important search terms. Ranking your site can be very time consuming and frustrating if you are just starting out. If you read as much as you can from sites around the internet though, it can be done. We feel the best way to do business is to let the people who know what they are doing trade services with each other. It works almost like the concept you learn when you take your first economics course.