we are getting there
General Talk
Maxe said: That's great!
What affects the google position? Can't you just make background images containing the word 'dreadlocks' thousands of times etc?
Google position is determined by relevance to the search and site traffic. Relevance is determined by whether or not a combination of meta keywords and site content are literally relevant to the search. Meaning, if you search for the word "dreadlock" its going to post the website most relevant to that search at the top of the list. It means all over the site, particularly in the meta tags and the site title itself (what shows at the top of your web browser, that's the title) determine what rank you get. So if you have a lot of linked pages about dreadlocks, and if the word dreadlock is repeated hundreds (maybe even thousands, depending on the word popularity in searches) of times, you'll get good ranking. It won't work if it's just a picture that has the word dreadlock on it, because it's basically just robots going through your site. The robots can read the words, but they don't technically know what the picture is of, if that makes any sense at all... or did I just confuse everyone in Search Engine Optimization 101?Basically, you're ranking for a search of the word "dreadlock" is based on how many times you have the word "dreadlock" in the meta tags, the site title, and the website itself, compared to other websites that have the word "dreadlock" in their website. So technically speaking, if a website generated more traffic than you, and had the word "dreadlock" on the pages more often, it would be higher ranking that you. Even if it was literally just a blank white page with the word "dreadlock" written hundreds of thousands of times...