February 22, 2006

Getting Top on Google

Getting Top 10 on Google

If your web site is not getting visitors - then you will never make any money from it. Search engines probably account for more than half of all website visitors - and Google is the most widely used of all the search engines. If you can get your website listed near the top on the results pages on Google - then you are doing well. All sorts of search engine optimisation "experts" will offer to get you top on Google some will have the cheek to guarantee it! . Getting a site listed high on the search results on Google can be done - but if everyone is trying to do it for the same search term - then it is going to be difficult.

Top Ten Tps for getting in the top 10 on Google.

1.Concentrate on one or two main key terms or phrases for each page of your site. (Just one is best). The terms or words you choose must be what you expect your potential visitors to be searching for. Choose something that is likely to be entered as a search term - for example if your page is trying to sell widgets in Ondon then try "buy widgets London".
2.Make each key phrase at least 2 words long - preferably 3 or 4. Trying to compete on just a single word is not going to work - unless that word is something very rare. Don't place all your hopes on "widgets" if there are hundreds of other sites about "widgets" try things like "cheapest widgets UK" .
3. Use the selected key phrase(s) in the page title, early on in the page content, in the meta description and in the meta keywords.
4 Try and use some or all of the key phrase in the file name too if possible
5. Have unique and relevant content on the page. Do not copy other sites.
6. Don't repeat the key words too much.
7. Larger sites do better - so try and create several pages on the site .
8. Don't have more than 3 or four external links on the page.

9. Have a menu structure on the site so that all pages are linked together in a structured way.
10. Avoid fancy Flash animations on your main pages - keep it simple and with plenty of textual relevant content.

It can take a while for Google to pick your new pages up. Submitting the page to google might help. http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
An established site that is already well ranked on google will be scanned regularly and a new page can appear on google within 2 to 3 days sometimes.

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