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  • Hi Y!A, I'm a designer living in Japan and have recently started building websites but found it difficult to SEO in general. I host my websites on Yahoo Small Business servers and have used their Search Engine Submission feature several times to submit my websites to Google, Yahoo, etc. over the course of two years. When I type in the company names into Google, the websites come up no problem. When I type the company names in Japanese into Google, some websites come up, but mostly only the Contact Page (not the front main page) will come up. Why is that? And it's worse when I type only keywords (not the company name)... my clients' websites do not show up in searches even if I type in the city name! Strangely enough, the company websites may show up because of external blogs or keywords from other websites... but not a direct hit on their website... I have heard rumors that using a Japanese server is better? Or using a Japanese domain extension (.jp or .co.jp) is better than (.com or .net) since our target customers are in Japan? Is this true? Here is the source code that I am using in the head of my index.html ========== <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ja" lang="ja"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Welcome to ABC123</title> <meta name="keywords" content="ABC123, City Name, Japan, etc."></meta> <meta name="description" content="ABC123 is the best! etc."></meta> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow,noodp,noydir"></me... <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> ========== Obviously, my clients would like to have their webpage come up on top (or at least on the first page). What am I missing? Should I keep submitting my websites to the search engines? Build social media pages to increase the number of relevant links? Or is the only sure-fire way is to pay for that top spot? Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for all your time. Cheers!

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    Yah, you and everybody else wants their website to show up on the first page. All we need is for browsers to show 10,000 links on the first page. SEO is a tough nut to crack. Don't expect a decent answer on Yahoo! Answers. People have built careers out of SEO, because there is just so much money to be made. But ONLY for those who show up on the first page. Second pages are rarely looked at. I don't think it would be any different in Japan or anywhere else. As far as I know, the search engines use the same ranking algorithms world wide. You can forget about the "meta keywords". Search engines know that people pad those, so they'll routinely ignore it. Put your actual content as close to the beginning of your page as possible. Ranking algorithms include that. You may need to use CSS positioning if there's some fancy graphics you'd prefer to be at the top. Ranking algorithms can't "read" fancy graphics, so that won't count. Place them physically last, regardless of page position. Get other websites to link to yours. Work out a "link exchange" of some sorts with them. The fact that others think your content is important enough to link to counts highly in ranking. Otherwise, just search the web for SEO advice. And take all of it with a grain of salt (including what you just read here). It's not an exact science -- if it was, the "algorithm" would eventually be published, and then EVERYBODY would come up first on the search -- clearly an impossibility.

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Yah, you and everybody else wants their website to show up on the first page. All we need is for browsers to show 10,000 links on the first page. SEO is a tough nut to crack. Don't expect a decent answer on Yahoo! Answers. People have built careers out of SEO, because there is just so much money to be made. But ONLY for those who show up on the first page. Second pages are rarely looked at. I don't think it would be any different in Japan or anywhere else. As far as I know, the search engines use the same ranking algorithms world wide. You can forget about the "meta keywords". Search engines know that people pad those, so they'll routinely ignore it. Put your actual content as close to the beginning of your page as possible. Ranking algorithms include that. You may need to use CSS positioning if there's some fancy graphics you'd prefer to be at the top. Ranking algorithms can't "read" fancy graphics, so that won't count. Place them physically last, regardless of page position. Get other websites to link to yours. Work out a "link exchange" of some sorts with them. The fact that others think your content is important enough to link to counts highly in ranking. Otherwise, just search the web for SEO advice. And take all of it with a grain of salt (including what you just read here). It's not an exact science -- if it was, the "algorithm" would eventually be published, and then EVERYBODY would come up first on the search -- clearly an impossibility.

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