How can I get a website to appear high up on search engines?

Is there any tricks or things one can do to get a website to appear high up in a search engine such as yahoo or google ...

1. Add content
Add content, add content, and add content. Before you even register your domain, you should have enough ideas to build 100 pages on your site. Start brainstorming and see what you can come up with in 10 minutes. If that's not enough to fill 50 pages, consider not building the site at all. Having lots of content is important.

2. A simple design is better
Text content should outweigh the html content. Stay away from heavy flash, java, JavaScript, etc. Don't add to much stuff like 'best viewed with'... Your website should be viewable with any browser. Keep it clean and professional.

3. Keep the pages small
Smaller is better. Keep it under 15k if you can. Your site should be fast loading, or people will leave. Speed is everything. Next to content, that is. Keep it under 10k or 5k if you can. Difficult, but people love fast sites. Throw away all the trash on your pages.

4. Content length
Put a new page online every day of about 200 to 500 words. Go to the overture keyword suggester to find ideas of what to write about. Spell checks your content. Search engines can do it, and so should you. If you have a blog, go for article-like posts as opposed to the personal diary kinds of posts.

5. Use keywords
Use your keywords in the following places: title, description tag, heading, url, once bold, once italic and once high on the page.

6. Link to other sites
Put 2 links to other, high ranking pages on your site. They should be relevant to the content of that page and use keywords as your link. Don't add every link that's requested. Check their relevance first.

7. Link to your own site
Put links from one page to other relevant pages on your own site. Again: use keywords as your link.

8. Submit your site
Submit your site to Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, Msn, Hotbot, etc. Then forget about that for 6 months. Also submit it to every single directory you can find. Do a check after 6 months and resubmit if you're not listed.

9. Log and track
Most hosts provide these. Don't use a lame graphic counter. Check where your visitors are coming from to find out what traffic methods work best for your site.

10. Write for people
People are not coming to your site for your content. They are coming for their content. Try to write as if you are writing to one specific person, such as a friend of yours who's interested in the same topic. Don't try to write for 'all of your visitors'.

11. Stay ahead
If you know that something big will come out in a few months, build a page about it now. It gives search engines time to index that page so they can feed it to the growing anticipating crowd.

12. Add more content
This is so important: keep adding content. Do this for a year and your site will be a top ranking website within one year. You could've been there now, if you started last year. So start now, so you'll be there next year. You'll thank yourself (and me) later.

You can either begin a Pay-Per-Click advertising campaign, or focus on improving your ranking in the natural, non-paid search results.

Generally I always advise clients to focus on organic/natural rankings - searchers trust them a lot more than ads, and you don't have to keep paying for placement like you do with pay per click.

There are literally hundreds of metrics which search engines use to determine the quality and relevancy of sites. Many are known, some are not. How "search engine friendly" your site is plays a definite role in its rank - especially in markets which are only mildly competitive.

A quality firm can help you optimize the main ones:

* Page Titles
* Internal Linking Structure
* Site Copy & Keyword Density
* Search Engine Friendly URLs
* URL Rewriting / Duplicate Content Prevention
* Text-To-Code Ratio and/or XHTML Validation
* Meta Keyword & Description Tags, H1 Tags, ALT Tags

You also need quality links to your site. This article will give you detailed guidelines for finding links that will improve your search engine rankings:

http://www.tccommerce.com/blog/articles/link-quality-guidelines/

If you decide to hire a search engine optimization firm to help you, don't get ripped off:

http://www.tccommerce.com/blog/articles/common-seo-ripoffs/

Yes. Thats an interesting and great trick to get it done.. But its based on the nature of your website.
1. The occurance of the keywords to be searched should be more and less enough not to be rejected
2. Adding meta tags
3. Listing your website in various search engines
4. Swapping links
5. Advertising in other websites which has more hits
and so on..
Depending on the nature of the website and keywords, there are customised ways of doing search engine optimisation.

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Step 1

Make your content relevant to what people are searching for.

Step 2
Build relevant inbound links to your site

Advice:

Avoid any black hat marketing techniques. No one can guarantee 1st page. Seek professional advice and donâ€™t try any quick fixes

You pay Google. I think it's something like "Search opimisation" and *you* pay everytime someone clicks on your website (that's why sometimes you know when you do a search, you click on the link and it's 'dead', it's because all the paid for clicks for that day have been used up).

My other half had to do this.

He also set up a Blog with a link to his business website. People would find his Blog, then go to his website which gradually pushed his business site to the top of the key-word search.

yes - these '10 low cost ways to promote your website' will really help to get traffic flowing to your site and get you site to appear higher up in the listings on search engines http://www.newbiztips.net/marketingideas.aspx
good luck with it! Rebecca

The way that google works:

If the more sites link to your site, it gets higher in the search.

If those sites are popular (have a lot of other sites linked to them) then you'll get even higher.

For example. You only have five sites linked to your site. Then you'd be maybe the 100th entry. BUT if one of those five sites is really popular, has maybe 100,000,000,000,000 other sites linked to it, then that might put you at the top, with just five links.

So, the more sites that has links to you, the more clout you get to be on top.

Interesting articles on the subject at:
http://www.metamotion.co.uk/website-optimisation.html
http://www.metamotion.co.uk/website-traffic.html
http://www.metamotion.co.uk/choosing-keywords.html

Hope this helps.

by owning more of the interent.

ever noticed why the big companies are always high up on the search engines and stay there. They own more internet...meaning they dont just have one or two pages they have hundreds sometimes thousands of page all indexed and they all get picked up by google and then directed back to the main site.

Add more pages to your site, at least one a day. soon you too will own more of the internet, get more links and and get a higher ranking.

www.engineseeker.com

The simplest way is to search for whatever terms you want to be at the top at and then look at the content of the first ranking website. Of course, you can't copy the content (by which I mean the code - i.e. HTML, PHP, etc.) as it's probably covered by copyright but see how often the search term appears. Be careful though as even though that site is at the top of the ratings now, if Yahoo, Google or whoever decide they are not playing 'fair' then they and you might disappear from the rankings. You might also find some help pages on the search engine web site to increase your ratings. The number of other sites that link to yours for example is often cited as a factor.

advertise more?
pay more money to google/yahoo?

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To your success!
Juliane

No DO not pay! AFTER a short period of time google or yahoo...etc. Will send out "webs" and it will bring your site to the top of the list. IT also depends on how much advertising you have. You would be much better off paying for advertising than for website placement.

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