- How to Be Found on the Web -
Bubbling to the Top in Google
Title Bars and META Key Word Tags
Many businesses and web designers do not yet know or
implement the simple rules which will help "bubble" their
pages to the "top twenty" in a Google search? Why? Because
they have not become "students" of search engine operation.
Do a Google search on a key search term and look at the
results. What do you see?
More often than not you will see first the
Title
Bar of
a web page displayed with the search term you used appearing first.
Next you will see part of the META description tag placed
below. Google does this to give viewers some idea what the page
is about.
Interestingly, you do not see the META
Keyword tag being displayed!
What does this tell you? It tells you that Google
is returning the results of your search based on the following three
things in this order:
-
The placement of the search term on the Title Bar
- The placement of the search term within the META description tag
- The appearance of the search term within the <body> of the page
This should suggest to you that the appearance of the key search
term in the Title tag is the single most important opportunity
for your page to be "found" and returned in the top 10 - 20 of
Google.
It also suggests that the META Description tag is the second most
important location for key word placement.
Finally, it suggests that the META Key Word Tag may be irrelevant. People
tend to over-use the META Key Word tag, loading it up with superfluous,
redundant, and, in some cases, misleading word strings and terms. Accordingly,
Google is not ranking its search results based
on key word placement in the META Key word tag.
Instead,
the rankings are based on the search term's appearance, and its order
of appearance, in the Title tag and Meta
Description tag.
By studying how the Google and other search engines work, you
would then make the following changes in how you approach your
main marketing tools on the web -- the Title and Meta
Description tags. Here are some pointers.
Limit Title Bars to 10 Key Words
- Best Search word first = “Network” or “Security"
- 3 types of key words
- Service and product key words
- Location – e.g., Montgomery County, Washington.,D.C.,
Virginia
- Name of Business – least important search term.
People who know your business name and search on it will
find you anyway. You want people who don’t know
you to find you. The title bar for "Sam's Surf
Shop" in Key West Florida probably should read:
- <title>Surfboards, Scuba, snorkeling, snorkel, Swim,
Bathing Suits, Key West, Keys, Florida, Sam's Surf Shop</title>
- If you put the company name first, you
defeat your main purpose of locating new customers. Who
is going to search for scuba gear in the Keys by using
the search term "Sam's????"
- The first search terms should describe services
or products
- Second, location(s). What is your market? What
are the location search terms people who want to find
you are most likely to use? Maryland, Montgomery
County, Washington, D.C., Virginia. What is your
market area? Put it in the title bar.
- Third, Company name. This is the reverse of
how most people think of titling a web page, and is different
from what most web textbooks describe. Why? Not
everyone has studied how search engines work.
- We increased a restaurant's catering business within
4 weeks of placing the word "Catering" first in the
Title bar of the restaurant's catering page.
- Paying for web location also is an option. The
above tips of the trade assume you are not paying for
location.
- Change the Top search terms (e./g., services provided) on different
pages:
- Home Page = “Security”
- P2 - Network
- P3 - Computer, Computers,
- P4 – Cybersecurity
- What would people search on to find businesses like yours
- Firewall sticks out at me, too
- Spam
- Spyware
- Intrusion
- Current title tags are way too long.
- Example for Home Page = Security, Network, Networks, Cybersecurity,
Computers, Computer, Maryland, Montgomery County, Washington Metro,
Virginia, Silk Route Security.
- Vary which service word is first on the internal pages, but also
include location and name of business.
- Firewalls, etc.
- META Description Tags = One, sentence description which repeats
the key words but in sentence form.
- Example = Network security solutions using firewalls, anti-spam
cyber-security software for computers is provided by Silk
Route Security in Maryland, Montgomery County, Washington,
D.C. Metro, and Virginia
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