Supplementing Spiders

We, as webmasters or website owners, are always looking for ways to supplement the search engine spiders. I call it 'supplementing spiders'.

What we are trying to do is encourage these 'spiders' to come feed on the keywords and 'content' of our websites, in hopes of getting a higher positioning in the search page ranking. It is like trying to put your head above the crowd and be noticed.

The experiment began with a new site that has been online a little more than a month [from the time of this writing]. What was decided was to create the best atmosphere for attracting Googlebot. A plan would be needed to attract Google and save the time, effort and outlay of cash for a Yahoo! listing. Google was also needed to build a page rank. Starting from zero we had to have a game plan.

The conclusion was reached that the time spent now would pay off ten-fold down the road. The new site is a free cross content article directory for websites, ezines and a learning portal. Keyword search was preformed on every search term imaginable. Every site that could be found that remotely related to articles and article directories was reviewed. Some of these sites were exclusive to articles while some only had a directory of articles on site in a subdirectory. What they had in common was that all had a front page or top 10 ranking in Google and/or Yahoo! for 'articles'. Note: there were also 417,000,000 other sites listed for "articles" that were indexed that have never seen the fringes of the front page much less the top 100. With that goal set, our task lay before us. The plan follows:

1.] A decision made on the look and feel of the site. This is important not for the spiders [Google

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Judy Webb is editor and Webmaster of http://www.thewebbpage.com. She is the author of several articles relating to Internet marketing and promotion. She can be contacted at here. This article can be reprinted or published as long as this resource box remains attached.