How to Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

When people think of search engine optimization, theylinks"Dangling links are simply links that point to any
immediately think of time consuming very tedious taskspage with no outgoing links. They affect the model
that are way beyond their capabilities. That might bebecause it is not clear where their weight should be
true if they put no time and effort into it. I do agree thatdistributed, and there are a large number of them.
improving search engine rankings in competitive nicheOften these dangling links are simply pages that we
markets require a good deal of knowledge andhave not downloaded yet..........Because dangling links do
expertise. It's TIME to learn the basics of how tonot affect the ranking of any other page directly, we
improve your search engine rankings. There is hugesimply remove them from the system until all the
need for search engine optimization experts, but mostPageRanks are calculated. After all the PageRanks
websites don't find themselves in a very competitiveare calculated they can be added back in without
niche market. Many websites can achieve top rankingsaffecting things significantly." -extract from the original
by applying my optimization basics. All you have to doPageRank paper by Google's founders, Sergey Brin
is put in the time learning and applying them.Let me layand Lawrence Page.-It is good to structure the internal
out the basics of search engine optimization. You canlinks so that targeted keywords are reinforced. For
find a professional to do it but some professionalsexample, organize the links so that a topic's sub-topic
charge thousands to even get your foot in the door.pages link to the topic page with the right link text (see
Others have you fill out lengthy quote requests and tellbelow), and vice-versa.Off-page elementsI was just
you they'll be back in about three days with a quote.reading a popular keyword site that delivers the best
Then you wait for three days, and no email shows up.possible keywords for your website. Then, they say
It might be worthwhile trying these basics out beforeenter each keyword and separate them with a
paying an expert.Please Note: If you feel you haven'tcomma. Do not separate these words with a comma.
achieved the results that you want, then try someThere is no need to separate them because the
affordable SEO experts who have more knowledgesearch engines ignore the commas. The words in the
and expertise in their field.What is Search EngineKeywords tag were never treated as keywords by
Optimization?Search engine optimization is the processthe search engines; they were treated as text on the
of coding a website to achieve top rankings in thepage. I keep hearing that the keyword tag is not as
search engines. You must concentrate on theeffective as it used to be, and then I'll click a link and it
website's most relevant keywords. These relevantsays it's an absolute. My advice to you is to put plenty
keywords are the key phrases that people are mostof relevant keywords into the tag and include the
likely to type into the search engine to look forkeyword once at the front, and a second time further
websites. These websites must present their productsalong the line. Do me a favor and do yourself a favor?
and services within a twenty second period to ensureDo not repeat a word more than 5 times. If you do, the
that the visitor locks into their site. Let me give you asearch engines will think you are spamming them and
scenario that happens far too many times. Let's saythey will drop you quick.The H tag< Hn >Insert your
you are looking for a great hosting company. You typeheadings or your titles of your text here< /Hn >The "H"
in your favorite search engine and enter a fewstands for headings throughout your text and the "n"
keywords: cheap hosting. You get thousands uponstands for the text size from 1 to 6. The smallest is 6
thousands of websites. What the search engineand the biggest heading size is 1. H tags are given
displays to you makes you decide whether or not tomore weight than ordinary text and, the bigger the H
click on it. When you finally decide to click on it, howsize, the more weight it receives. So include the target
many times have you seen Google "adwords"keyword in H tags at least once on the page, and two
throughout the whole left side in no particular format?or three times if possible. Also, place the first H tag as
How many times have you seen affiliate productnear to the top of the page as possible.Bold textBold
advertising on the whole right side in no particulartext is given more weight than ordinary text but not as
format? Goodbye! What could have been an easy sellmuch as H tags. As much as is reasonable, enclose
turned out to be an easy click out of your website.the keyword in bold tags when it appears on the
This is not what you are trying to achieve.The firstpage.TextThe body should be easy to read with a
step for search engine optimization is to choose thevery clean layout. Remember when I visited the
most suitable keywords for your site. Make a list ofhosting sites, and they have Adwords on the left, and
the most suitable keywords for your site and then splitthey have the affiliate products on the right, and their
one or two of them to each suitable page within theactual text or body is 10 inches below. Let's cut out all
site. One keyword per page is preferable, but two perthe extra stuff. Treat your website as an entity. When
page is not so bad. Sometimes it is useful to split ayou do that, buyers will remain on your website.
large page into two smaller pages so that a differentPerfect! You have achieved your goal of getting traffic
keyword can be targeted on each page.IMPORTANTto stay.In your text, use the main keywords as often
NOTE: Matching keywords to a page's content isas you can on the page without messing with this
essential. A search engine robot and spider has caughtclean user-friendly layout.. Use the term once or twice
on to all the tricks. Don't try to outsmart it.Basic Searchvery early in the page's body text and as often as
Engine Optimization Structure is vital to yourpossible throughout. Reword small parts and even add
success.An obvious and overlooked aspect of searchsentences to make sure that the keyword is well
engine optimization is to make sure that search enginerepresented in the text.In all probability, each word in
spiders can actually crawl to all of your website'sthe keyword will be found on the page separate from
pages. If the spiders and robots can't find them, thenthe keyword itself. This is good. In fact, if they are not
they won't get indexed, and we've wasted a lot ofthere on their own, add a few of them through the
time on search engine optimization. Make sure thatpage.Alt text
your navigation structure of your website is strong.img src="url" alt="Type in text that will show up on
Would you build a mansion on a one inch foundation?images on mouse over"Alt-text is simple. Blind people
Probably not! Then why build your website mansion onhave speech synthesizers that read pictures. The only
a weak foundation. This means that all of your pagesway the blind person will be able to "hear" the picture is
are linked together on every page. When the spiderif you included the Alt-text. This is the text you see on
crawls throughout your website, it will crawl to all ofpictures when you mouse over it. Guess what? Include
the pages and back again. If there is one broken link,the keywords in the alt text of all images on the page.
this could affect your search engine rankings!Don'tNot to mention that this could definitely help your
forget the not so obvious:-Robots and Spiders can'tsearch engine rankings.SummaryMake a list of
see links embedded in Java and most times Flash.keywords for your site. Rank the popularity of the
When a spider and a robot crawls over your website,keywords because that's what your visitor will type in
it only reads the text, and those embedded links arethe Search Engines.Make sure each page of your
invisible to the spiders and robots far as searchwebsite has at least one major keyword and split
engines are concerned, they don't exist. Let's make asome pages if necessaryMake sure the links and link
promise not to use them.-How many times have youtext contain your target keywords
clicked on a link and looked at the URL, and itIf possible, organize links from other sites to suit the
contained about 32 extra letters and numbers in it?target keywords and their pages.Organize all the
Google won't spider any URL that looks like this. Avoidon-page elements to suit each page's target
using dynamic URLs.-Make sure all pages link to atkeyword.Relax and shoot for number one rankings.Kit
least one other page. Links to pages that don't link outElliott, SuperAffiliate.com, (TM) is a business
are called "dangling links". Google founders, Sergey Brindevelopment consultant, speaker, author, and
and Lawrence Page, once wrote about Danglingcopywriter.