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[JJJCR_FOX]

Hi guys, any ideas on how to improve page ranking in search engine, when typing a specific keyword? thanks...

[francisstokes]

got any code?

[si_the_geek]

Make the page relevant to the keyword, and make it as useful as possible for the human readers. Also ensure that you don't have any html errors (as that will stop the spiders from reading your site).

For a few years search engines have been pretty clever, and analyse pages in a very similar way to what a person would - so if it is good for people, it is good for the search engines.

There are tricks to fool the search engines, but they vary for each search engine, and change every couple of weeks - and if you get caught using those tricks after the search engine has been altered to spot them, your site will be blacklisted.

In addition to that, rankings depend a lot on the users - based on the results they ignore (rank goes down), pages they actually visit (rank goes up, especially if they return to the site later).

[JJJCR_FOX]

thanks for the input, si_the_geek.. appreciate it...

[JJJCR_FOX]

through searching the web, using "sitemaps" will help to improve page ranking? any comments on this guys? thanks...

[si_the_geek]

They help the search engine to find the other pages on your site (particularly if you create+submit search engine specific ones), which is a good thing, but I seriously doubt they affect ranking as such - they are very useful for users tho (and thus page hits), as it allows them to find other parts of your site.

Note that for VBForums (which ranks very highly in search engines) the home page is basically a simple site map - but there are many other features too (such as links along the top of pages, apt titles and other meta tags, etc). More importantly however, there are lots of links to here from many well respected sites for similar subjects (such as Microsoft.com).