page zone and google

Fireater · **page zone and google -** 10-05-2002, 02:32 AM

Whether you search for cpanel or Fantastico Installer , on Google, Page Zone comes up within the first 10 results. The Holy Grail of all!

WOW!!.. How did Page Zone Manage it?

<meta name="keywords" content="web, hosting, webhosting, webhost, affordable, low, cost, cheap, linux, cpanel, website, web, hosting, subdomains, shopping, cart, onlinecontrol, panel, private, cgi-bin, PHPMyadmin, control, panel, ssh, secure, shell, access, auto, responders, mysql, databases, unlimited">

Meta Tags aren't the only solution, Jim must be having a few tricks up his sleeve.. maybe he can share them with us?

dvduval · 10-13-2002, 11:52 AM

Actually, I would make one recommendation to you, Jim.

You should give all the pages in your site unique titles (in the <title> tags). This is one of the main criteria that Google uses besides incoming links and link text.

So if you have a page with first word in the title "cPanel" or "Fantastico Installer", you will surely rank higher.

donzeigler · **Re: page zone and google -** 10-13-2002, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fireater
Whether you search for cpanel or Fantastico Installer , on Google, Page Zone comes up within the first 10 results. The Holy Grail of all!

WOW!!.. How did Page Zone Manage it?

<meta name="keywords" content="web, hosting, webhosting, webhost, affordable, low, cost, cheap, linux, cpanel, website, web, hosting, subdomains, shopping, cart, onlinecontrol, panel, private, cgi-bin, PHPMyadmin, control, panel, ssh, secure, shell, access, auto, responders, mysql, databases, unlimited">

Meta Tags aren't the only solution, Jim must be having a few tricks up his sleeve.. maybe he can share them with us?

It helps to have links to your site on other sites. When Google's robot begins its indexing it will follow good links and add these sites to its index. So, cultivate relationships with many other sites and exchange links with them. You'll help one another tremendously!

dvduval · 10-14-2002, 09:41 AM

A little more about titles...
1. If all the titles on the site are the same, Google will often skip some of the pages in the site.
2. The page title itself can play a role on what the page gets listed in searches.

Page-zone has over 30 pages in Google with the title: Page-Zone Web Hosting
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...om+-fillerword
You have to click...repeat the search with the omitted results included
...to see what I mean.

Some, but not all, of the pages are dynamically generated pages, but even these pages can have page titles.

One large portion of the site that is not being indexed by Google is the forums. Tweaking the PHP to include page titles would increase the total number of pages listed in Google by over 300! And that's 200 additional links to page-zone.com.

Jim · 11-11-2004, 12:12 AM

version 3 of vbulletin is out out. Now, two years after the thread started the forum is search engine friendly. I hope.

TomM · 11-11-2004, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Fireater

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Meta Tags aren't the only solution
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To the best of my knowledge, Google ignores Meta keywords entirely. Page titles and external links into pages weigh far more heavily.

Jim · 11-11-2004, 05:06 PM

Yes, titles are a big factor. We have always been on page 1 for wholesale web hosting, unfortunately the server logs don't show anyone searching for that.