{"id":4083,"date":"2008-08-27T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/mywirelessnews-examines-search-engine-ranking-for-your-website\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:45:14","slug":"mywirelessnews-examines-search-engine-ranking-for-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=4083","title":{"rendered":"MyWirelessNews &#8211; Examines Search Engine Ranking for your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Trisha Frauenhofer<\/div>\n<p>Search engines are the most important part of the experience of using the internet these days. A search engine is, more often than not, the way that people find websites and any other information they are searching for online. Why? Simple enough &#8211; it&#8217;s the easiest, fastest way to find the information you&#8217;re looking for online! MyWirelessNews requires that you know how all of this works and why you need to know it, here&#8217;s the skinny on search engines.<\/p>\n<p>A search engine uses what is known as a spider or crawler (it has lots of them) which prowl the internet looking through websites and analyzing their content. When a new website is submitted to search engines, these engines will send out their spiders to check the site out. The content of the site is looked at, as is the content of any site yours is linked to. All of this data goes to a central databank where it is indexed. Spiders check back with pages frequently and will be re-indexed if there have been updates to the site.<\/p>\n<p>Search engines also rank the sites which they index &#8211; and the sites linked to them. Search engines all have their own criteria for ranking websites.<\/p>\n<p>When you perform a search using Google or some other search engine, what happens is this &#8211; the search engine will give you results which are not actually real time results, but rather the results of its own rankings. Since each engine uses different criteria to rank pages, a search for &#8220;birdhouses&#8221; on Google will yield a different set of results than will the same search on Yahoo. The results are dependent on the engine&#8217;s ranking system.<\/p>\n<p>What does all of this mean for your web based marketing business? Basically, it means that you have to know how search engines work in order for your online marketing efforts to be fruitful. Say someone looks up MyWirelessNews using a search engine. They will certainly look at the first page of results. They may look at the second page as well; but the third? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>To enhance your search engine results keyword research is very important. You want to find out which keywords get searches but have comparatively little competition. You can then use these keywords to get higher rankings from search engines if you use them correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing a little about search engines and how they do what they do can help you to get your sites ranked higher &#8211; even showing up on the first page of search results, which is exactly where you want to be. A little knowledge about keywords can be a powerful thing.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>There&#8217;s more select content written about this subject at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/mywirelessnews\">MyWirelessNews<\/a>. Trisha Frauenhofer strongly recommends this site <a href=\"http:\/\/mywireless-news.blogspot.com\/\">MyWirelessNews<\/a> as well.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search engines are the most important part of the experience of using the internet these days. A search engine is, more often than not, the way that people find websites and any other information they are searching for online. Why? Simple enough &#8211; it&#8217;s the easiest, fastest way to find the information you&#8217;re looking for online! MyWirelessNews requires that you know how all of this works and why you need to know it, here&#8217;s the skinny on search engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","tag-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}