Although this is for SEO newbs, it never hurts to remind even the most experienced SEO to check the basics now and then. Go to google.com and type this in:
site:www.yourdomain.com (or site:yourdomain.com if you don't use www)
Look at the results for your site: search. Is the same title repeated over and over again? Is the same description repeated over and over again? Especially in the case of the titles, you are losing out on the most effective on-page SEO tip there is. If your page is about chocolate cake, but your document title is MySite.com (because it is just using the default across all pages), you've just lost out on the biggest impact you could have made to rank that page for [chocolate cake]. Fix these problems ASAP to potentially get some immediate rankings improvements.
(Note: If you signed your site up with Google's Webmaster Tools, you can get this same information presented in a more readable format, in the Diagnostics/Content Analysis section. This tool gives you information on meta description issues (long, short, and duplicate descriptions) as well as title issues (duplicate, missing, long, short, and non-informative titles).
I bring this up because I'm often surprised to see this issue come up again and again with folks who aren't SEO experts. I sometimes forget that the basics aren't common knowledge. Interestingly, however, is that sometimes the SEO experts get so involved in other things that they sometimes forget to handle the basics. Actually, I think more often than not, they don't really forget, but they don't realize that something has changed, and the basic optimization they once covered, has gone away. Occasionally checking the basics is always a good idea.
You can also put something like “site:http://www.yourdomain.com/somefolder” to get results below that “somefolder”
Great advice Donna!
It’s also important for elite and veteran SEOs to do this from time to time, just to double check their work. Really solid advice, thank you.
Excellent tip. I think I take care of that with my SEO plugin 🙂
@ Luis it’s a good idea to do the folder check every once in a while, even for folders you’ve expressly told google not to index, just to make sure they haven’t been indexed.
Great tip Donna. It’s definitely something to keep track of.
Respected mam
I really liked your trick. Thank you so much. I am a new babie.
I am having one question mam..
I just i came to know google checks only related backlinks,age of domain, keywords in domain and content to rank in search results..
Well, it if so i have seen a website named some grrageshkumar.com for the keyword ” SEO”..
This website doesnt have any quality content.
This website doesnt have enough backlinks.. (nearly some 1k) almost all frm directories.
This website doesnt have enough keyword frequency in homepage..
How can that domain ranks in 1stpage without having enough keyword freq, backlinks and quality content???
Is there any hidden factors in google considerations??
Please answer me mam..
Waiting for your answer…
@Rebalboy, are you sure you aren’t getting personalized results? Logout of Google and search again. More than likely, either you are getting personalized results or you’re searching a local country tld, or you happen to be on a datacenter that is odd, because that site doesn’t rank for seo anywhere that I see.
Yeah ur right mam..
I have found that site in google.in for the keyword “seo”
But not in google.co.uk or any other…
Very nice explanation.
One more ques…
Does algorithms differ between google.in and google.co.uk?? Why because they are showing different results…
Does our IP location plays role in ranking results in different search engines??