How to improve website rankings?

cavanami · March 15th, 2007, 09:24 PM

Greetings.

As a newbie to ASP.Net, I would like to know how to improve
my website ranking, like when someone does a "Google" for the
website, I would like to come up #1 (wishful thinking)!

I am more familiar with the Meta-tags and Content Title used
in "regular" (html) webpages...but how to do this in a
ASP.Net website?
(I know that Google doesn't use meta-tags but other search
engines do).

It looks like Google grabs items from the Master Page?

Ideas?

Thanks.

Mike

Imar · March 16th, 2007, 02:58 AM

Hi Mike,

How is this related to the book ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results?

For a better and faster answer, I think you're better off posting this in one of the more general Web categories here at P2P.

Cheers,

Imar
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cavanami · March 16th, 2007, 03:44 AM

>How is this related to the book ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results?

errrr, using the example in chp. 8 and setting up the website, there is no mention that I saw of adding code or whatever to improve website rankings.

I know how to do it using like Dreamweaver and html code, but no idea for ASP.Net, thus the question.

The book provides a new example and website, but I was looking for just a little bit more :-)

Imar · March 16th, 2007, 03:57 AM

Right I see. Didn't know you were referring to the book, so it might as well have been a general question.

Google isn't aware of something like Masterpages. All Google sees, is the final rendered HTML.

In the Customer Support chapter I added the HtmlMeta objects to the <head> of the master. This way, content pages can set the Keywords and Description properties and the Master Page is then responsible for adding them to the actual page when they have a value. Look at the MainMaster.Master.vb file to see how it's done.

When the page is rendered, the content page and the master page are merged to a single HTML stream that ends up as the page in the browser / in search engines. Look in your browser's source (use View Source) to see they ended up as regular HTML in the final page.

You can extend the ideas from that chapter to add other meta elements (dublin core, title, author information and so on) as well.

Cheers,

Imar
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jminatel · March 16th, 2007, 08:09 AM

Hi Mike. In addition to Imar's suggestions, you might want to check out this article from Patrick Santry, once of our Professional DotNetNuke authors:
"Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and ASP.NET Developers"
http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parenti...8/default.aspx

It could be of some help. And, in a few months, we'll have this book published too:
Professional Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO:
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-S.../dp/0470131470

Jim Minatel
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Wiley Technology Publishing
WROX Press
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dparsons · March 16th, 2007, 08:17 AM

The latter of the 2 books that Jim mentioned is extremely worthwhile and a very good resource on the various methodologies/techniques for SEO but, as he said, it won't be published for a few more months.

Jamie, one of the Authors of SEO w/ASP.NET maintains a blog more or less at http://www.seoegghead.com/ that you may want to look into.

You may also want to check out these additional resources:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
http://seoblackhat.com/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/

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cavanami · March 16th, 2007, 09:34 AM

Most excellent.

A HUGE thanks to all of you!!!

bishnupokhrel · March 25th, 2007, 11:25 PM

Hi cavanami,

if you want to improve the ranking of your website, then it does not matter what tools ( ASP, Php, asp.net etc ) you use to create your website. only thing its matters is, how many other good sites ( having higher ranking on google) refer to your website.

Regards
Bishnu Pokharel
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http://www.bishnupokharel.com.np/