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[Ladybow]

I wasn't sure where to place this question. It's in regards to getting all of a persons pages on their web site to come up on the search engines. We have a competitor who's' pages all come up. Only our home page comes up. I'm just wondering how they do it. I have asked several people and no one seems to know, however obviously it can be done.

Thanks for your help.
I apologize if this is was the wrong forum.

[jaressloo]

There is web terminology called SEO (Search Engine Optimization). You will need to read up on this.

A good site for this is http://www.selfpromotion.com. Check it out. This guy has a lot to say about it and his site is very informative.

[MikeD]

Originally Posted by Ladybow

I wasn't sure where to place this question. It's in regards to getting all of a persons pages on their web site to come up on the search engines. We have a competitor who's' pages all come up. Only our home page comes up. I'm just wondering how they do it. I have asked several people and no one seems to know, however obviously it can be done.

Thanks for your help.
I apologize if this is was the wrong forum.

You have use some SEO techniques and link within your site. Heres one way:

http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspo...on-google.html

You can apply that technique for any pages you want. To get multiple pages listed requires a lot of internal as well as external links for a particular search term/phrase and it's best if they are linked off of a keyword.

To get multiple listings of your pages means you have the same keywords in all those pages, title tags etc and thats what SEO is all about from the previous post.

To get what looks like a table of contents when you find the site takes time, lots of external links and lots of content.

look at this...It's what you call an "Authority Site"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...ebsite&spell=1

HMMmmmm...looks familiar.

That takes TIME and LOTS of external links...something you cant fake.

--Mike

[Ladybow]

Thank you guys for your input. I really appreciate it. I do have the same meta tags etc. on all pages. My other pages just aren't coming up even with those tags. I am in the process of changing some of the page titles and the descriptions. Will that help?
I have a web master who did a great job on designing our web site he just didn't think of all the other, however now he is that I bring it up. Maybe I'm being greedy about all of this. We are listed in the top ten and on the 2nd pg. As I said our competitor has almost all of their pgs coming up on search and so, I want that as well. Their are so many more guide schools out there these days. 49 yrs ago we were the only one. Thanks again

Julie

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by Ladybow

I do have the same meta tags etc. on all pages.

Every Meta tag should be unique for each page. Make them highly relevant to what content is being displayed on the page.

Your page title is one of the most important aspects for ranking, use keywords that you are targeting but again make sure its relevant to the page content.

Take this forum as an example. Your question or title of the post appears on the page but also on the title of the browser ^ look up top ^ but also look at the url of this thread, see the connection?

So now, when this page is in the search engine results your question is going to appear. Google can now determine what the page is actually about because of the keywords in the title, the keywords in the url and also the keywords on the page. The title and content is more important.

Meta description & keywords have no ranking factors within Google, they are only used in the snippet description that appears on their results - its a good way to attract a visitors eye to your result. Google will determine to use the description or not with the snippet, if they dont they use a piece of content from your page.

If you do use descriptions and keywords have them unique for each page.

Originally Posted by Ladybow

I have a web master who did a great job on designing our web site he just didn't think of all the other

Its common for web designers not to think about Search Engines during their initial design, its not really in their interests to know about Search technology. Although more and more are starting to notice the importance.

If anything I would say to your designer to focus 100% on user and browser accessibility, search engines like Google will find it easier to crawl your site. More info on web accessibility.

Make sure to have an HTML sitemap not only for user accessibility
but also for the search engines. Bots usually only crawl 2 clicks from the root of your domain, if you have pages buried deep they can have problems finding them. The sitemap helps bring those buried pages closer to the root.

If building links look for sites relevant to yours to link to you. There is no need to get lots and lots of links, just ones relevant to your site will be sufficient.

[Ladybow]

Thank you all for all the informative info