Those who are just starting to break onto the website scene want to be featured
on all of the major search websites. To many, however, the ranking on search engines
seems random, and based on popularity. Those who are trying to get their website
on a search engine should realize that while popularity is a part of the equation,
there are many other factors to how search engines rank web sites for the search
results. While each search engine will have it’s own way as to how it filters results,
there are four things that every search engine relies heavy on for its results.
Keyword Frequency
The main thing that search engines are looking for is the page (or pages) that offer
the most information on the topic. This is determined by the frequency of the key
words available on the actual website. If someone searches for “Search Engine Rank”,
the search engine will look for the websites that have the best frequency of “search
engine rank” available; too little will garner no results, and too high of a frequency
may have an adverse effect.
Keyword Location
Another thing that search engines are looking for is the actual location of those
specific keywords. The search engines want to know how soon the web page is actually
getting into the information that the person is search for. If the keywords appear
toward the top of the page, the website will rank higher. If the keywords do not
show up until later in the page, they will rank low, or will not even rank on the
search engine results at all.
Spamming
Many people take the idea of the keyword and over-do it. They try to place the keyword
on the webpage as much as possible. To protect results against this, search engines
will actually cut out results that are deemed to have too many key words. They feel
that the webpage is attempting to “spam” the search engine by simply featuring multiple
keywords excessive amounts of time without actually having information about the
specific keyword.
Popularity
Search engine results do take popularity into account when ranking the websites
for keywords. Those web pages that rank high on results but are not often clicked
on will find that they are dropped on the results page. This is something that is
not controllable, as it simply relies on how often your link is chosen when shown
on a search engine results page.
Summary:
Trying to get a website to show up on the top results of a search engine’s results
can be difficult and confusing for many. While getting the results wanted may be
easy for certain topics, it may be incredibly difficult for others. Taking all of
the aspects of how search engines rank web sites can help you to understand exactly
what needs to be done to rank as high as physically possible on search engine result
pages.
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