Maybe you just go to the following url and go to bottom and read the "Quick Start Guide" at the bottom first. Go to step 7 for checking ranking. If you think that is what you need you can download then.

http://www.webceo.com/download/index.htm

Anyhow be careful when using software using some kind of automatic checking to any search engine. Search engine don’t like auto robot calling them often cause it will eat their resources and slowing down their services. When that happened they usually will blocked that IP for maybe 1 to 2 days. You will notice this when you can’t access them for example when trying to use google search. So please don’t go crazy checking your ranking.

As to what you can do to improve your search rankings, SEO is the answer. Now Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not a "cookie cutter practice." What needs to be done to search optimize a website/blog is very unique for each individual site.

However, I can give some basic recommendations that can help increase your search rankings:

1. Make Your Site User-Friendly (Web Usability)

This is one of the most important factors that should be considered when architecting a website. There’s a book called “Don’t Make Me Think,” that will give tell almost everything you need to know about web usability. As an SEO consultant, I can tell you that if the website isn’t user-friendly, than it’s very unlikely that it’ll be search engine friendly.

2. Use Good Old-Fashion PR As Part of Your SEO Strategy

Write press releases and publish them online; just make sure that you optimize them using the right search keywords.

3. Update Your Content Frequently

Often times, people/companies start websites or blogs and they never update the content. In your case, make sure that you are regularly uploading new/fresh posts. From a user perspective, if I don’t see anything fresh on your blog regularly, why should I keep coming back? Search engines act the same way when they come to crawl your page.

Keep these three basic recommendations in mind when thinking about SEO and you’ll be on the right track.

I have been informed that a sitemap will improve my Google ranking ? I was under the impression that a sitemap is a Search Engine friendly tool to have all your page spidered, but I do see how it can improve ranking ?

regards

Ashley

Hi Ashley,

The sitemap submission is only one piece of the puzzle in the overall process of marketing your website. On its own it will not help to improve your rankings with Google.

However, if you are engaging in link building strategies on the web to increase the critical mass about your website in the Internet community, one of your items on your "To Do" list would be to submit your website xml sitemap to the search engines.

All three of them (Google, Yahoo, MSN) have a process to submit your sitemap, which ultimately insures that they index all of your pages correctly. It also helps to speed the process up of indexing along with – at least with Google – provide you critical information about their perspective of your website. This will obviously help you in the optimization process too. Google has a Webmaster Central area that discusses this further.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Also take a look at the Sitemaps.org website which all three major search engines agreed upon in 2005. General info.

http://www.sitemaps.org/

Lastly, if you are interested in using a Sitemap generator to help you automated the creation and in multiple formats (xml, ror, html, text) take a look at this:

http://www.smartfindsmarketing.com/xml_sitemaps.php

Hope this helps.

Is there any good SEO blueprints out there, that will teach how to rank step by step?

I was in your shoes a few years ago and I feel your pain. You can learn all the SEO in the world but if you don’t have a solid step by step game plan, chances are you won’t get any results.

When it comes down to it, SEO is all about

1. Finding the right keywords to rank for

2. Optimizing your website to rank in Google for those keywords

3. Then building backlinks with those keywords

Of course there is a system to each of those steps but it would take all day for me to explain. You can visit my SEO blog if you get more info. It’s in the resources section right below.

Thank you

your html reads (view Sourse from mouse click on the site)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Bad Credit Car Loans – Car Loan Financing – AutoApproved.com</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!–
body {
background-color: #EFEFEF;
margin-top: 0px;

You should include something like this, but related to your site. Search engines pick this up:

<HEAD>
<title>The A R T room 1 1 4 </title>
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="An art teacher’s gathering of useful information for teachers and kids – links, downloads and a sampling of her students’ work as they learn about famous artists and art terms as they apply to learning about the world of art.">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="red114, room 114, the art room, the artroom, kids’ art, gallery of student work, teacher links, kid links, famous artists, elements of art, principles of art, art work, elementary art, Picasso, Okeeffe, Van Gogh, Wright, Burchfield, Pollock, Monet, Miro, Warhol, Escher, Tessellations, Calder and others to follow">
</HEAD>

Is any software who make hits to my site by using my most important keywords in search engines so that my site hits will be increase and ranking of keyword also be improved in search engine.

please give me that name that software weather its free or paid one. OR give me other useful software like my requirement..

There are various software programs such as "Gold" and others which do not truly address proper design and implementation of SEO metatags. The following article should prove helpful to you at this time.

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 60 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually up to 41 words to form a complete paragraph which
best describes one’s goods and services. It is not merely a list.

And the very last category – "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It’s on the SECOND FRONT [ranked 15]!
Again, Nazos.net’s high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google’s publication guidelines.

Good luck!

Browse to the category which best fits your website and click "suggest URL" at the top. An editor will review your submission to determine if it should be included. If accepted, it can take 2 weeks to several months to be listed.

A couple of things you can work on to improve your ranking on your site:

1) Determine what your top key phrases are (you’d like to rank high if a customer searches for "____"). Work those phrases into your page title and content in normal language (don’t try to simply cram phrases in).

2) Get other people to link to you (good, legitimate sites, not paid spamming sites). The best way is to create enough buzz to have people want to blog and write positive reviews about your product that link to your site.

Yes, you can since most of them allow to put the URL of the article. Frankly speaking, i will say ezinearticles.com is the best article submisson website which bring you huge traffic

I was reading over the two pieces and noticed some things which I would change in a way that I feel would benifit the whole article. However I was quickly told that the use of the same word 5 or more times was benifical to the search listings as it means google and other search engines will pick it up.

As I do web development myself I have a basic idea of SEO and I though search engines will generally get keywords from meta tags and the first (few) paragraph(s) of a site and using the same word actually lowers your listing for spam based reasons.

Who is correct?

Thanks.

I have read google claims about spamming and wanting normal content. One of my best friends builds websites and consults to companies like Motorola and other tec companies. He spams hard. He uses hidden words the same color as the back ground and repeats 150 to 200 Keywords at least 10 times in what appears to be empty space. He claims that search engines use the top third of most pages.

Google and yahoo will not give specific details on what is excessive spaming.

No one knows who is correct.