| Short Cuts for Great Google Rankings |
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| Friday, 02 May 2008 | |
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I'm sure theres a lot of people out there who'd like some SEO shortcuts. From an e-mail I got this week: "4 months to do SEO seems like a long time to do anything. I mean what takes 4 months?" Wouldn't it be nice if there you could jump ahead of much older and more established sites? Here are five ways to leverage Google's own features to your advantage: Local
Read more: Click here to list your business in Google local search. There are several people on our forums who've founded their businesses within the last year and have used Google Local to jump ahead of people whose sites have been up since the 1990s. Videos
Read more: Instructions for running video perfectly in Joomla. Your videos will need to be hosted on YouTube, which is good news because it also solves on hosting / bandwidth costs.
Images
Read more: Make sure to remove Disallow: /images/ from your site's robots.txt file. Click here to read more about image optimization. News
Read more: How to get your Joomla site indexed in Google News. Products
Read more: Make sure your product is on all major sites in your niche. For books, that means Amazon.com, Overstock.com, BarnesandNoble.com. For golf equipment, thats OnlineSports.com, GolfLocker.com etc. Click here for tips on doing this with Virtuemart. Find Out MoreGoogle's technical name for this move away from simple text results is called "Universal Search" and its been around for around one year now. Yahoo and MSN have their own versions of Universal Search. Ask.com took this further than anyone else with all kinds of search result delivered on one page.
Comments (8)
  written by Steve Burge, May 02, 2008
Hi Kesepian
Sure - that sounds great. I should get around to putting a proper license on these blog posts. When I do it will be along the lines of "if theres a link back to the original, use whatever you wish".  written by guido, May 03, 2008
steve, why don't you use creative commons?
there are 6 licences you can choose from look at creativecommons.com written by Steve Burge, May 03, 2008
Thanks Guido - in all likelihood I will. I've seen other bloggers use a Creative Commons Attribution license. Seems like a wise choice...
written by Steve Burge, May 07, 2008
Google has just added another feature to its shortcuts.
This one is a real estate listing and it launched just a couple of weeks ago. I think its going to only keep getting more prominent: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/homes-not-just-homepages.html Upload listings options are here: http://base.google.com/base/help/realestate.html written by Kyle Ledbetter, May 12, 2008
Had to thank you for this article Steve. My wife just launched an Austin Wedding Planning service (she'll also sell Wedding Websites, of course built in Joomla
 ) I had totally forgotten to add her to Google local search. Write comment
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