[pct-l] Searchers wanted

[Paul Mitchell]

Vic

I don't want to sound like a know-it-all, but I do have some experience with
websites and search engine placement.

I'll respond to the list for anybody else who has a page, journal, whatever
that they'd like to see on the search engines.

Traffic to your site is not what influences page rank on google.  You could
get five million hits in one month and it would not increase your page
rankings.  It may factor in on other search engines, but it's doubtful to be
the main criteria for any of them.  If it were, the pages that end up on top
would be there permanently.

Google page-rank is determined by a number of criteria:

A) the number of links to your site from other sites with similar content
B) the rank of the sites that link to yours
C) the quality and type of content on your site, i.e.. keywords and related
words found throughout the pages
D) the structure of your site - whether it accommodates "spider" programs
which search and index the pages
E) how frequently the site is updated
F) who knows what else - google doesn't publish their formula

To get your site in the top couple pages for any particular sets of keywords
takes a lot of work.  It's a specialized field called SEO - Search Engine
Optimization.  They typically charge a fee per keyword phrase, and more or
less depending on how competitive the keywords are, and it takes months to
see results.  For example, one word - sex - you're not going to get on the
top few pages without spending a small fortune on web marketing and SEO
services.  A phrase like "vibrating trekking pole" is going to be easier and
cheaper to achieve good search engine placement results with.

The best thing you can do to get your site higher on google is find as many
other websites of interest as possible where you can post a link to your
site, or pay a good search engine optimizer to help you out.

I used www.stepforth.com and was able to achieve top results for my site for
a couple search phrases.  Most days if you type "3D animation studio" into
google, my site comes up before Pixar!  It wasn't cheap or simple to achieve
that though.

Cheers,
Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]On Behalf Of Vic Hanson
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:57 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Searchers wanted


If any of you are twiddling your thumbs and looking for a computer chair
adventure, I could use some help. I had almost 1000 hits on my website last
month but this month only about 150 so far. The site is now listed with
Google, MSN and Yahoo search engines but some of them are pretty far down in
the list. The way I understand it is the more searches and clicks on a site,
the farther up on the list it is located. I'm looking for as many people as
possible to search for my site and when they find a listing for it, to click
on it and go to the website. I wish I could offer you great prizes for doing
this but all I can give you now is my sincere thanks.

  If you have the time and are willing to do it, here is how you can help:

  Search using words like - trekking, hiking, Peru, Arequipa, canyon,
Cotahuasi, Vic

  For example with vic peru canyon hiking arequipa, my yahoo blog comes up
in #4 spot, my MSN blog in #21 and adventurecotahuasi.com in #39.

  Using vic cotahuasi I get the first 6 spots and 14 of the first 20,
including the link to my blog on PCTA site. However most people don't know
about (or remember how to spell) Cotahuasi so I am trying to get my site to
come up without using Cotahuasi. Or using cotahuasi peru (without vic) it
comes up #68. Using adventure cotahuasi peru it is #23. And of course if
they don't know me they aren't going to have my name in there.

  Anyway, you get the idea. If you can help I would really appreciate it.
And please tell your friends about
  www.adventurecotahuasi.com for a great adventure in Peru.

  Much thanks, and eagerly awaiting my Even More Walking DVD!

  Vic  AKA Sugar Daddy

  PS I didn't hear of anyone not being able to get alcohol of some kind last
year. The hiker boxes also had quite a bit.


  Interested in a South American Adventure? I have started an Adventure
Travel Business in Peru.
  http://www.adventurecotahuasi.com

  Check out my yahoo blog for stories and pictures of my PCT hike:
  http://360.yahoo.com/vichansonperu

  Check out my MSN blog for current and past photos and stories of my
adventures in Peru:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/vichanson/




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