Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Into the Trenches


Yesterday began with watching Bob update a website for a broadcasting consulting company for the month of May. This included making the links on the page go to the new articles and changing the picture icons to match. Then I learned what a landing page was (a page of a website that has in depth information on one specific thing) and helped work on one on birth injuries for a personal injury lawyer. As we did this, I learned about something that is not often noticed by the ordinary person: in what order sites come up on Google. While it may seem random, there is actually a system behind it. Not only do they look at relevance in relation to the key words, but also what authority the website has judged by how many sites link to your own. A way to gain authority with Google is adding your website to web directories so you have more inbound links. If this is done automatically with software, however, Google will notice the drastic change in inbound links and ban your site from Google. For this reason, my job this afternoon was to enter this lawyer’s website on various web directories.
            Today I focused on a website’s rank depending on the keyword. I was looking for what keywords a competitor website was ranked, so a website just starting up could know what keywords they wanted to try and rank for. This is one way the competition is used to the advantage of the client.

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