Hi Severin, For what its worth, for me the search results were:
********************************* Google Australia (google.com.au) ********************************* Search term: newarts (no quotes) -Search the web: www.newarts.org.au was # 3 (of about 3,170,000 for newarts) Note that #1 was also a newarts (no space) in Wisconsin and #2 had newarts in the domain name. - Search pages from Australia: www.newarts.org.au was # 1 (of about 48,100 for newarts) Search term: "newarts" (in quotes) -Search the web: www.newarts.org.au was # 3 (of about 30,600 for "newarts") note #1 & #2 were also for newarts (no space) in Wisconsin - Search pages from Australia: www.newarts.org.au was # 1 (of about 419 for "newarts") www.newarts.org.au/newartshome.html was # 2 (of about 419 for "newarts") ************************ Main Google (google.com) ************************ Search term: newarts (no quotes) www.newarts.org was # 11 (of about 3,170,000 for newarts) www.newarts.org.au was not showing up in the first 100 results (#1 & #2 were the same as the Google Australia results) Search term: "newarts" (in quotes) www.newarts.org was # 4 (of about 30,600 for "newarts") www.newarts.org.au/newartshome.html was # 15 (of about 30,600 for "newarts") www.newarts.org.au/P09Summary.pdf was # 25 (of about 30,600 for "newarts") So it seems: - Google Australia has you higher up the ratings than google.com - Including "newarts' in quotes narrows the search significantly and so moves you up the ratings. - Search pages from Australia also narrows the search significantly and so moves you up the ratings. My own observations on our potoroo.org website was that it took several weeks before a google search for "potoroo" returned our website as a result but that we then moved up the ratings over time - as others have said, getting other websites to link to you obviously helps (particularly if those links are from other popular sites and the links get used) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com PS <www.newarts.org> had a very basic one page site with just links to 2 youtube videos of art performances - so, presumably, the videos were popular! I particularly liked "Grand Central Freeze": <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo> on 10/1/10 12:42 PM, Glenn Nicholas at gl...@publicityship.com.au wrote: > > Severin, > > Google.com and Google.com.au deliver different results - using > google.com.au your site is coming up on page 1 for a search on > newarts. > > If you want to improve your rankings, find ways to get good links to > your website from other websites - the more authoritative the website > the link comes from the better. Currently you have no links to your > newarts.org.au website, which doesn't give you a very strong profile > in the eyes of the search engines (who, broadly speaking, treat links > to your website as positive 'votes' when determining search rankings). > You'll get better results from focussing on links to your site than > changing domain. > > Glenn Nicholas > OM4 :: > > > > 2010/1/10 Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au>: >> >> I administer a website for an organisation NewArts(Inc) of which I am >> secretary. The previous version had a different name and we agreed to >> change the domain name to newarts.org.au for a number of very good. While >> this is not a seriously distinctive name, our belief that "newarts" rather >> than "new arts" would mean that we would float up in Google. How wrong >> that appears to be. Google.com does not rate us in the first five pages, >> Google.au is marginally better if you go to the suggested newarts.org. >> Adding some extras in the search will pick it up as I have added ketwords >> etc in the metadata. >> This is an unfortunate and annoying dilemma. One solution is to take out >> another domain name - but what should that be? That is a highly annoying >> route to take. >> I am surprised that Google in effect equates "newarts" with "new arts" in >> effect ignoring the space. THe URL etc was directly submitted to Google in >> the usual way. >> Has anyone any tricks to offer on this one? >> Severin >> >> ________________________________________________________ >> Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP >> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. >> Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) >> email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au >> ________________________________________________________ >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
