How To Improve Your Search Engine Rankings In Singapore

By Anne Rowan


Search engine rankings in local search engines usually are quicker to realize than in Google.com or Yahoo.com but you have to make sure that the search engines appreciate your site and your content as appropriate for the local Singapore market or whichever local market space that you're desirous to show up in.

Appearance in a local search engine like Google.com.sg is easier if you do the following:

To begin with, run your site through a .com.sg or .sg site (or any local equivalent, eg .com.au or .co.nz), next, host your website on a Singapore hosted server (so your server IP is in Singapore), and finally, tell Google (using Webmaster Tools www.google.com/webmaster-- login using your Gmail account) that the web site is localised to Singapore.

When you do any of the above, then you will rank higher in Pages from Singapore or the local counterpart.

If you run your web site over a .com, .net or .org, then you must make a clear choice concerning the physical locality of the market space. So for example, we launched our SEO service in Singapore but we currently serve clients globally. Currently we've got a setback. We're among the leading top three search engine optimization agencies in Singapore, we are No.3 today in Pages from Singapore, a position which we've held tightly for just about two years now, and up until lately we were showing as the No.3 SEO company in Pages from the Web as well.

Today, just this week, two competition have pressed us down in the pages from the web. We're 'anchored' to Singapore within Google Webmaster Tools, despite running our site through a .com domain. We have been debating in our team if we should 'un-anchor' ourselves from Singapore and take our chances in the .com world.

The decision for us is simple as we've got two years of content and movement that ties us to Singapore and our web domain is hosted in Singapore. So considering our rivals are now taking our spots, we are going to give up our Webmaster Tools tied to Singapore this next few days.

If you are just starting out with the web plus your site has not been about for awfully long, and even though you have a .com site however your physical business comes from a specific single territory, then we might suggest that you just fasten yourself initially to a local country (assists you to develop business and local traffic), and soon liberate yourself, and take the plunge into the .com arena.




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