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	Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Techniques to use to Rise up in Google Rankings   (techdrivenlife) One of the things every webmaster needs to know is how to rise up in Google search rankings -- it being the premiere source of over a hundred million people in searching for information in the internet. According to this site which studied Google's recent patent application 20050071741, here are some of the things that Google looks at it when it ranks your site. One is that  if you register your domain name only for one year that is a point against you.  This is because the majority of spam websites only register a domain name for one year.  A domain registered for a longer period of time is more likely to be legitimate and serious about their site. Google has been making changes in the way it ranked sites due to the link spams that they received in 2004 in order to make their search more relevant and powerful.   It also says the speed at which your site gain links might be hold against you because that might be indicative of spam.  The way you are linked, the frequency and amount of updates to your websites, the length people stay at your sites, the number of times you are bookmarked, and many others are considered. Here is the site on other more important factors.    2:04:47 PM     comment []   trackback []