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What’s the timeline to rank your website in Google Top 10?

July 31, 2010 1 comment

One of the most asked SEO query is – “How much time will it take for my website to appear in Google results?” The question seems simple and straightforward for the clients, but for the SEO team, the issue is not as simple. Search engine rankings depend on a large number of factors, which require significant amount of time and efforts. In this blog, we’ve pulled together the factors that influence the timeline for your website to appear in search engine results.

Before beginning SEO, what is the position of your website?
If your website does not have any optimization done at all, redoing the process may take a greater chunk of time

Does your site have inbound links?
If your site does not have any inbound links, you will have to wait.  However, if you already have inbound links, updation will speed up the crawling of your website

How recently was your website built?
A brand new site without any links will have to wait for sometime before it is found by Google search engine.

How flexible is your website?
If your website incorporates a content management system, which is open to SEO based changes; your website is likely to have a better ranking.

How competitive is your target phrase?
If you are betting on a highly competitive target phrase, it will take time to appear in search results. You will have to add links, pages, and fresh content regularly to find your place. It is recommended that you go after easier target phrase first, and then transition to a higher stage.

How competitive is your website?
Examine 10 competitor websites closely for target phrase. If your competitor websites rank heavily with thousands of links, it is better to reevaluate your goals or have a very long term plan with consistent efforts to compete.

Moreover, once Google spider crawls your website, you will have to wait for the updated cache to appear in Google’s index. You may also have to wait for some more time for the results to actually appear in search engine rankings.

At Softweb Solutions, we have well established SEO processes that improve your results in minimum time. We guide you throughout the process keeping you informed with the improvements. For more information, email us at info@softwebsolutions.com or contact us.

Take Control over Your Website with Google Webmaster Tools

If you own a website, taking the help of Google Webmaster Tools should be a no brainer. It is a free tool that provides detailed reports on your pages’ visibility in Google. Similar tools for other search engines including Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Center can be implemented to extend website monitoring abilities.

To get started, you need to add your website and verify that you have an authorized access to it. Once this is done, you can review your website considering three aspects – site configuration, your site on the web, and diagnostics. Site configuration provides a better way of managing the site, your site on the web shows how Google finds you and diagnosis helps you identify errors. We’ve listed a few ways you can use Google Webmaster Tools to increase traffic generated through search engines:

Geographic Targeting:
You can target where your content appears by making modifications in the settings option in site configuration. However, you must only do this if you want the content to appear in a specified country. This option is generally used when an individual or a company owns multiple websites that are targeting customers in different countries.

Add a sitemap:
This sitemap is different from the public sitemap you use to facilitate content navigation on your website. It is dynamically built sitemap that updates regularly with current pages as and when they are created. To add a sitemap, you can either take the help of your webmaster or simply prepare it yourself by using a free .xml sitemap generator tool. You can check whether you already have an existing sitemap at Domain.com. Submitting a site through web master tool pokes Google to crawl your recent content.

Diagnose underlying issues:
Crawl errors and stats help you diagnose potential issues and provide information to troubleshoot them. This enables improved site performance. If errors are detected, crawl errors and stats will provide suggestions on taking the next move. In addition, it will show the time it takes for loading the page. Large sites that use rich content such as slide shows, videos and images extensively can benefit greatly through this feature by knowing if their site loads slowly. Crawlers will go through more content if your site loads quickly.

Taking the help of Google Webmaster Tools makes sense as it provides a broader picture through better website monitoring. At Softweb Solutions, we deliver SEO services to help you get found easily through search engines. If you need help or would like to share your opinions, please post them in the comments section below.

SEO in Recession Time

March 4, 2009 Leave a comment

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : News, Articles & Updates

Hello Friends,

Search Engine Optimization has always remain an exciting & ever changing field. SEO is all about, optimizing the way you through your ideas, thoughts, services, products or anything you want to share with the world. Its all about reaching out to the people. This blog will give you all latest news, articles, updates happening in & around the industry. So, bookmark this blog for your future reference & keep clicking :)

SEO in Recession time

As we all know, the world economy is suffering from recession. SEO has always remain the best option to get online visitors with low coast & long impact. It’s interesting to know, what will be Companies view for the SEO activity. Search Engine Land, to-day share a great post about the impact of economy on the SEO industry. eMarketer’s latest report named Search Marketing Trends: Back to Basics says that Companies have realized the value of SEO & the impact of Online business and thus search marketing budgets, SEO budgets will increase in the next five years, while paid search budgets will decline in comparison to the overall marketing budgets for companies.

MediaPost recently reported that, the growth for SEO industry will not only remain constant but increase from 17.7% in 2009 to 20.3% in 2013.

Following chart was shared on FLickr by eMarketers:

SEO Growth

SEO Growth

SEO and Internet Marketing industry will continue to grow in the upcoming years. It has been predicted that, SEO market will be reaching $23.4 billion by 2013, which was $12.2 billion in 2008.

Followign chart shows the details:

SEO Cost

SEO Cost

It seems that, SEO will be the need of each & every business who has online presence. A genuine & ethical SEO company can only give you success in the online market. But, every business having online presence will need SEO company to survive their top presence, to gain popularity in the online market, to build up a reputation through various social media, to gain the leads and to reaching out to the people in a most cost effective manner. R u looking for SEO company to enhance your web presence ? You can contact us to get all your answers for SEO/internet Marketing.

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