how to get my website to the first position?
I have a website that I want to be ranked on the first page of search engines. How do I get there?
5 Responses
vicseo
10 Aug 2010
memetrader
10 Aug 2010
The short answer is Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
There are two up to date, free, high quality SEO tutorials available:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization
http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php
These two are reliable resources but beware of everything you read on the web about SEO because 99% of will be recycled rubbish or just scams. Some of it on Yahoo Answers I am sorry to say.
Good luck!
boyponga
10 Aug 2010
Depends on the strength of your keyword. If you have lots of competitors, you would have a little problem with that. Link building by submission and content updates may help a lot
bonnieram1962
10 Aug 2010
Tom,
I certainly agree that your first step is SEO. Once you have done this, there are other ways you can help with your rankings. Establishing a presence online is very important. I also have a couple of websites and I have climbed the search engines by several actions. I use blogs, forums, business network sites and social networking sites, I publish a monthly newsletter and I also publish articles.
The articles have been the best source I have tried so far. When I did a Yahoo search the other day for motivational articles by Bonnie Ramsey, I had the top 16 positions and I have only been writing the articles for about a year. The first month I started publishing them, I had 5 spots on the first page.
The good thing is that the articles can be on any subject that you have any knowledge or experience with so you don’t have to feel intimidated by any specific topic.
You can also write Hub pages which are less formal than article submissions and easy to learn in the beginning. I have a Hub link in my profile if you aren’t familiar with what they consist of and would like to have a look.
As for the articles, you can also have them published at no cost in many different sites as well as newsletters that take article submissions. I have had 2 published in MLM Woman in the past and another one coming out in this month’s issue. It is free to submit to most of these newsletters and it creates traffic to your site due to the biography section that allows you to place a link there.
Feel free to contact me if you would like more information on this type of marketing and I will be glad to help. I wish you all the best in your new business!
Bonnie Ramsey
Sharing Mind
10 Aug 2010
Maybe below resources can help you a bit. It is a yearly very low cost systems that is all in one tools especially seo tools to help your website rank high.
http://www.clickaudit.com/goto/?89011 (If you want to be Successful Inforpreneur)
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If you have a website already up and operational, the following article may be worthwhile.
The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 41words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Good luck!