how do you know whether a website is weak in google with there seo?

[859]

what factors do you take in when deciding whether you can beat them does it matter how long its been in google first page, is there seo weak, whether its ecommerce or not?

[Bala]

i)If all the pages not indexed by Google
ii) Not the sitemap file
iii) No implementation of Robots.txt file
iv) Duplicate pages
v)Canonical issues
vi)Not in proper navigation
vii)Poor site performance
Viii)Using flash and frames and etc..

[SEO Expert India]

1) no quality back links
2) no .gov and .edu back links
3) site may be spam
4) proper referral sites
5) site must have its own blog
6) Fresh contents
7) Bandwidth and speed of the site.
8) proper meta description and meta title
9) must satisfy Google trust rank Algorithm
10) Do not use your domain name in your page title

[Prodo Digital]

Hi,

I'll try to answer your question as best I can, as you have asked more than one. Here goes:

Q: what factors do you take in when deciding whether you can beat them? Is their SEO weak?

By this I am presuming you mean how you can compare your own site to that of your high ranked competitors and how you can make your site more SEO friendly than theirs. There are several reasons why they may be ranked higher than your, one being domain age - this is a very important factor with regards to ranking and one you can't do much about. Google favours or 'trusts' site that have older domain names, so gives them a ranking boost over new sites. The aim of this is to cut down on the number of spam sites that pops up, in order to deliver relevant results to users of the search engine.

Other factors include looking at your competitors back links profile and seeing what high page rank links are pointing to their site. This will give you an idea of the link quality you will need to build to compete.

Look at their on-page SEO, what key words are they using? What are you using? How do the use them? Do they use the same keywords for their inbound link anchor text? You need to consider all of these things.


Q: how long it’s been in Google first page?

If their site has been on Google’s first page for a while it could be that they are doing more things SEO wise correctly than incorrectly, it could be that their keyword selection is correct and they have found some very niche key word terms, it could be that the inbound links they have build are high page ranked and relevant or it could be that there is a lack of good competition.

Q: whether its ecommerce or not

Do they sell products? Do they have a shopping cart? Can you purchase items? Do they accept paymants online? If they do, then chances are it's an ecommerce site.

Hope this helps...

[raysor]

Try this. It's not perfect (people say) but it does give you an idea where your site needs improvement.

http://nibbler.silktide.com/top-sites

[amba]

If a website doesn't appear in top results it must be weak, lot of factors are considered for search engine result pages.

First and foremost is keywords, if you select wrong keywords almost everything is gone wrong.

Google and Bing are the two top search engines now and bing is providing search results to yahoo also.

Both Bing and Google offers, webmaster tools which helps webmasters with many awesome features, tips,etc

Sign up there and measure your efforts and look for improving your site..

[!#! GoD !#!]

A good place to start with is the content. Make sure the site has good and unique content. Flash websites do not perform good with search engines. So you should avoid these. There are some guidelines mentioned here: http://thenewdegree.com/the-15-day-seo-course
The list on that web page basically sums up in a nutshell the basics of search-engine friendliness.