Five Proven Steps to Top Search Engine Rankings

Sure, there are millions of websites out there, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to get your website top rankings in Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. Only a few of those sites are after the same keywords you want to rank for, and even those sites that have "your" keywords on them may not be competition for you. For instance, if your website is about target shooting, you'll easily rank ahead of someone who mentions that target shooting is one of his or her hobbies.

You don't even have to worry about most of the other websites who want to be ranked highly for the same keywords you do, because most webmasters know very little about how to achieve good search engine rankings. And, those who do often engage in website promotion for a few weeks or months and think there job is complete.

If you're willing to continually work on your search engine rankings, you can get (and keep) rankings which will bring you lots of highly targeted traffic. Here's what you have to do.

1. Make sure you have proper, well-conceived meta tags. If not, replace them; many websites offer tips on writing meta tags and even help you create them, but here is a good summary. Your title tag should include your best keyword or phrase, and it should come first, if possible. Also, your title should make the nature of your website clear...don't make potential visitors guess what it's about. The keyword tag should list your top keywords or phrases in order of importance. Your description meta tag may be displayed in some search engines and directories, so write one or two sentences designed to interest anyone who reads it.

2. Subscribe to at least three or four of the many good, free website promotion and marketing email newsletters. Among my favorites are the LED Digest at http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/52/77/, Site Reference at http://www.site-reference.com/, and Search Return at http://www.searchreturn.com/subscribe.shtml. Remember that all three have archived editions; read them if you have time.

3. Find a prominent place on your website to add social bookmarking icons that will enable your visitors to quickly and easily help promote it. Among the sites that will generate code for the icons is http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php.

4. Create brief (250-350 word) articles related to the subject of your website or closely related subjects. Then, submit your articles to at least 15-20 article submission websites...more if possible. You can submit manually, but I recommend that you use a service or buy submission software allowing you to submit to well over 500 sites. It's worth the minimal investment required...here's why. With an author's box which includes a link to your site, like my author's box below, every webmaster who reprints your article will be giving you a link; a link that can help raise your rank in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. And, one article can generate hundreds of links for you. If you write a few slightly different versions of each article, you can get an even better search engine "bump" when they are published.

5. Engage in an ongoing, aggressive link building campaign. Submit your sites to at least the four or five top search engines and every relevant directory with reasonably high Google Page Rank. Then, use a tool like the one on http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/ to see which sites link to your competitors, and ask them to link to you. Or, you can hire an agency (including the one who offers the free tool listed above) to obtain links for you.

Of course, there are other ways to promote your site...social media, press releases, etc. Try them out too. But, by following through on the five items above, and staying with it, you can move your website to a search engine position which will generate the traffic you need to enjoy success.

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Daniel Z. Kane has six websites with top ten search engine rankings. He offers all website owners a free, ten lesson course on website promotion . One of his top ranked sites is on online colleges.

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