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The Little Known Secrets of Million Dollar Home Based Business Opportunities
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Search Engines Are A Source Of Tension In An Online Home Business
For a long time I have been a member of several search engine
optimization forums and I have recently noticed that the stress
level of many webmasters has gone way up (this is especially
true since Yahoo and MSN have decided to seriously try their
hand at competing with Google in the search marketplace). This
applies not only to webmasters involved in Internet-based home
businesses, but to webmasters in general.
Additionally, it seems that many people that are in the business
of search engine optimization (SEO) are, with good reason, going
completely bonkers. As Google came on the scene in 1998 and
quickly dominated the search business, website optimization
became largely a game of shooting at a single target, namely,
pleasing Google...for all intents and purposes, Google became
the "800 pound gorilla" of the search engine business.
Since the advent of search engines (particularly Google) spawned
the whole SEO business, I guess its only fair that the search
engine industry can once again turn the SEO business on its ear,
and it seems now to be sort of a cat and mouse (not desktop)
relationship that can get really interesting as we move forward.
Not only are there now several viable players (most notably
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask Jeeves) in the search engine
business, but they are all adopting different and frequently
changing algorithms for determining the ranking positions for
websites.
The current game is that webmasters are trying to figure out how
the various search engines perform the rankings and, on the flip
side, the search engines are striving to be unpredictable to
those webmasters and SEO firms.
For those people
using websites to promote a home based
business, it can be stressful constantly trying to determine
"what the search engines want" and agonizing over every downward
fluctuation in rankings that their website may experience.
Looking forward in time, I think we can expect that rankings
will fluctuate frequently and will not be at all consistent from
one search engine to another. It will be quite common that for a
particular search term a website might suffer a drop in position
ranking for search engine "A" and an increase position ranking
for search engine "B" at essentially the same point in time.
Rather than stressing out over every position ranking "wiggle",
a better approach might be to just focus on "what do visitors to
my site want?". The search engines are striving to give their
users a quality (relevant) search experience and if you are
focused in giving visitors to your website what they are looking
for, these paths will meet somewhere down the road.
You can save yourself alot of consternation by focusing upon the
needs of the website visitors you are seeking to attract, rather
than chasing the frequently changing ranking algorithms of
several search engines. Focus on a single target instead of
chasing several moving targets at the same time.
This article pertains to natural searches only, as paid search
engine advertising is a completely different situation.
About the author:
Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and
coaches others seeking to start their own home based business.
Visit his website at Legitimate Home Based
Business for more details.
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