| Search engine optimization is one of most | | | | |
| popular online marketing tool for any | | | | Density and position play a big part in your |
| website. With more websites coming online | | | | ranking for your keywords. You should use |
| every day the competition gets larger, so you | | | | your keyword once in the title, once in the |
| have to make sure you can out SEO them before | | | | description meta tag, once the in the |
| they out do you. In this article I will tell | | | | heading, once the in the URL, once in bold |
| how to increase your ranking and how to out | | | | text. Try to get a density between 5% and 20% |
| do your competition. | | | | and you should do good. |
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| Search engines change their algorithms often | | | | Submit your home page and maybe a few other |
| and it's hard to keep up for anyone, so if | | | | pages in your site to the search engines, |
| you don't know much about SEO don't worry, I | | | | than wait for them to come to your web site. |
| will get you up to speed. First make sure | | | | The waiting part is the harder part after you |
| YOUR site is robot FRIENDLY by using HTML | | | | submit to the search engine. You can see the |
| instead of flash and use more text than | | | | main search engines that you should submit to |
| images or flash. | | | | below. |
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| Page size can help you rank better in search | | | | Google - |
| engines, by keeping your page size low you | | | | |
| will help robot(s) get more out of your web | | | | Yahoo - |
| page. You should Keep it under 100k, but it's | | | | |
| best to keep it around 25k or lower. Content | | | | Teoma/Ask Jeeves - You will need to email |
| is a key because search engines like Google | | | | Teoma to get in at this time. |
| love theme sites. Build three pages of | | | | |
| content per week with at least 200 words. | | | | Meta tags are not that important as they once |
| | | | were, but some search still consider them and |
| One thing that every one that owns a site | | | | this could help you rank higher in some |
| should have heard about by now is link | | | | search engines. Use the keyword meta tag and |
| popularity. Link building is very important | | | | description meta tag, the rest don't do |
| because not only will search engines find | | | | nothing nor help! |
| your site faster, but it will help you rank | | | | |
| higher for the keywords you used in the | | | | After the robots start coming to your site |
| links. Try to trade links with websites which | | | | watch the logs (If you have logs) very |
| have high Google PageRank of at least 4, the | | | | closely and keep up with what pages they |
| more the better, but don't trade links just | | | | index and how often they come. Also make sure |
| for PageRank, look at Traffic more. Below is | | | | robots are crawling the full site and not |
| a link to a link exchange that will help you | | | | just some pages. |
| build you link popularity and traffic. | | | | |