Thread: 6 Tips to Get Your Site to the Top of Search Engines

Telfair Plantation is absolutely correct. It's not enough to just start writing, although if you don't have a lot of experience that's an okay place to begin. It helps exponentially when you're writing strategically. Know who your audience is and how they're searching for content. This will make your efforts more efficient.

Originally Posted by annalaurabrown

1. Start writing articles. Even if you hate to write, these really are a must if you are going to improve your rankings. Writing even just a few articles and posting them in some article directories with your URL at the bottom as a part of a bio box will do wonders for your website.
2. Take a close look at your meta tags. This includes your title and head tags. If you need help figuring out what to include take a look at the meta tags for some other websites which have higher rankings for your desired keywords.
3. Take a close look at how the keywords in your meta tags stack up against the keywords inside your site. This is very important. Your meta tag keywords need to also be present in the content of your site. It is also important to create links within your site using your keywords. Putting some of your keywords in bold can also help.
4. Make sure your site has real content. This includes articles, links to other sites, links to other pages within your site and real useful information, not just ads or promotional material.
5. Start a blog. You can either create a traditional one using a program such as blogger or wordpress or create a lens or many lenses at squidoo.com. The search engines love these and as long as you make sure to include a link to your site on these, your SEO will improve. You also need to make sure that you keep these updated on a regular basis.
6. Be patient. I know it's easy to get impatient, but attaining a high ranking website takes time and no amount of money or work will make the process any quicker.

Where do you post your articles?

Anna it is very kind of you to share this valuable information with us . good luck to everyone with the SEO .

Originally Posted by joelrunner

Great info Anna!

The only thing I'd add is to set up a PPC campaign as step #1. That will enable you to determine WHICH terms actually get traffic and convert into leads.

Nothing would be worse than to spend weeks/months optimizing for a search term that doesn't get any traffic, or worse - does get traffic, but doesn't convert into a decent amount of leads.

Smart advice about the PPC. You can get lots of traffic from a keyword but if it doesn't convert it's less valuable. Thanks for pointing that out as we are starting a PPC campaign soon!

you can do some off activity 1.bookmarking ,forum posting,blog commenting etc...