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Improving your ranking

If you are asking the question 'why doesn't my site appear in the top rankings?' then review the following information and linked articles.

The basics

Check that you've typed your site URL and your keywords correctly.

Verify the results

RankAngel is heavenly, but not perfect. Check your results in a real browser live. If you still don't see your site - you have a problem. If you do see your site, RankAngel has a problem - and we'd love to know about it - please report the problem here

Register your site

Have you registered your URL with the main search engines?

The third browser - search engine web crawlers

You've optimised your site to work on Internet Explorer and Firefox, but how does it look to a search engine web crawler? Often called the third browser you should consider the following to make your web pages comprehensible to search engines:

Web Standards

Web standards enable a search engine crawler to more easily understand the different parts of your page. Refer to:

Accessibility

The goal of accessibility is to make web content accessible to as many people as possible, including those who experience that content under technical, physical, or other constraints. It may be useful to think of search engines as users with substantial constraints. For more details refer to:

Metadata

Meta tags are text written into the HTML code that describes your webpage to the search engines, but which is not visible in a browser window. Read this article for more details about Meta tags

Pick meaningful and consistent URLs

Quality links

An important factor for a search engines when ranking the importance of your site is by counting how many links are made to your site from other important sites in your industry or field. The best way to get important sites to link to you is to create compelling content or services that people in your industry find useful.

Do you have a sitemap?

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.

Do your research

Read one of these three great web articles

Professional help

Want help? While Rank Angel only helps you monitor your site, there are lots of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) companies that can help you. Many of them advertise on this site - see the left hand column.