Advice Needed to bring my site from 15th to the top 5 !

[FireStorM]

Anyone can plz tell me what are the best ways i can bring my site from 15th to 5th .. thx .. Is getting more backlinks the more reasonable way?

[sgthayes]

yup more backlinks with the keyword(s) you want to rank for as the linktext.

You should check the sites that are above you and check their backlinks and try to get links on those sites. 1 related high PR backlink might just do the trick tho.

[mjewel]

A yahoo directory listing ($299 a year) can also help with SERPS - although the amount of revenue your site generates factors into deciding whether or not it makes sense.

[Web Gazelle]

Backlinks can work miracles for a site's ranking in Google. Keep building your backlinks.

[z00pedup]

Before you launch your site, you should have done the following:

- Optimized your <title> tags on each page to contain 1 - 3 keywords
- Create unique Meta Tags for each page
- Used appropriate markup where necessary (<h1>, <em>, etc.)
- Used keywords liberally yet appropriately throughout each page
- Designed the navigational structure of the site to channel PR to main pages (especially the homepage)
- Used Search Engine Friendly URLs (if necessary)
- Created a complete website with plenty of quality content
- Used keywords in your domain and url keyword1.com/keyword2/keyword3.html

Immediately after launching your site you should do the following:

- Submit your site, by hand, to all major search engines
- Submit your site to all free directories (dmoz, yahoo (if applicable), etc..)
- Begin a link building campaign (attempting to get keywords in the reciprocal link anchor text)

Finally, as part of an ongoing strategy:

- Continually update your website will quality content
- Continually seek free and reciprocal links preferably from sites in your genre

Although not bad recently I've felt that it could be much better. So I've come up with this:

Quote:

Before you write one line of code:

• Do keyword research to determine what keywords you want to target
While constructing your website you should do the following:
• Use markup to indicate the content of your site
o Optimize your <title> tags on each page to contain 1 - 3 keywords
o Create unique Meta Tags for each page
o Use header tags appropriately (H1 > H2 > H3)
o Use <strong> and <em> tags if appropriate
• Optimize your URLs
o Use Search Engine Friendly URLs (for dynamic sites)
o Use keywords in your domain keyword1.com
o Use keywords in your URL example.com/keyword2/keyword3.html
o Use dashes instead of underscores to separate words in your URLs (keyword2-keyword3.html)
• Optimize your content
o Use keywords liberally yet appropriately throughout each page
o Have unique content
o Have quality content
• Use search engine friendly design
o Create a human sitemap
o Do not use inaccessible site navigation (JavaScript menus)
o Minimized outbound links
o Kept your pages under 100K in size
• Design the navigational structure of the site to channel PR to main pages (especially the homepage)
• Create a page that encourages webmasters to link to your site
o Provide them the relevant HTML to create their link to you
o Provide them with any images you may want them to use (although text links are better)
• Make sure your website is complete before launching it

Immediately after launching your site you should do the following:

• Submit your site to all major search engines
o Google (Use a Google SiteMap)
o Yahoo (Use the page list option)
o MSN (Finds your site via incomming links)
o Ask (Finds your site via incomming links)
• Submit your site to all free directories
o DMOZ (also powers Google Directory)
o JoeAnt
• Submit your site to relevant directories
o Find more at ISEDB
• Begin a link building campaign (attempting to get keywords in the link anchor text)
o Put a link to your website in your forum signatures
o Reply to relevant blog posts (Don't spam please)
o Submit articles to relevant websites

If you will pay to promote your website:

• Submit your site to pay directories
o Yahoo
o GoGuides
• Purchase text links from high PR (Pagerank) sites related to your site

Finally, as part of an ongoing strategy:

• Continually update your website will quality, unique content
• Continually seek free links preferably from sites in your genre

Do NOT do the following:

• Make an all Flash website (without an HTML alternative)
• Use JavaScript for navigation
• Spam other websites for incomming links
• Launch your site before it is done
• Use duplicate content
o Point several domains to one site without using a 301 redirect
• Use markup inappropiately
o Style <H>eader tags to look like regular text
o Hide content using 'display: hidden' (for the sake of hiding text)
• Use other "black hat" techniques (unless you accept the risk - Banning)
o Doorway/Landing pages
o Cloaking
o Hidden text
o Keyword stuffing

Additional Tips:

• Usable and accessible sites tend to be search engine friendly by their very nature
• Be patient! High rankings don't happen overnight
• Don't obsess with any one search engine. They are all worth your attention.

credit: SP

[Web Gazelle]

Submitting to Search Engines is not needed. They will find you with good inbound links. Submitting is a waste of time.

[z00pedup]

I disagree using the Google sitemap you can get new articles/entries to your site indexed faster

[FireStorM]

Before you launch your site, you should have done the following:

- Optimized your <title> tags on each page to contain 1 - 3 keywords
- Create unique Meta Tags for each page
- Used appropriate markup where necessary (<h1>, <em>, etc.)
- Used keywords liberally yet appropriately throughout each page
- Designed the navigational structure of the site to channel PR to main pages (especially the homepage)
- Used Search Engine Friendly URLs (if necessary)
- Created a complete website with plenty of quality content
- Used keywords in your domain and url keyword1.com/keyword2/keyword3.html

Immediately after launching your site you should do the following:

- Submit your site, by hand, to all major search engines
- Submit your site to all free directories (dmoz, yahoo (if applicable), etc..)
- Begin a link building campaign (attempting to get keywords in the reciprocal link anchor text)

Finally, as part of an ongoing strategy:

- Continually update your website will quality content
- Continually seek free and reciprocal links preferably from sites in your genre

Although not bad recently I've felt that it could be much better. So I've come up with this:

Quote:

Before you write one line of code:

• Do keyword research to determine what keywords you want to target
While constructing your website you should do the following:
• Use markup to indicate the content of your site
o Optimize your <title> tags on each page to contain 1 - 3 keywords
o Create unique Meta Tags for each page
o Use header tags appropriately (H1 > H2 > H3)
o Use <strong> and <em> tags if appropriate
• Optimize your URLs
o Use Search Engine Friendly URLs (for dynamic sites)
o Use keywords in your domain keyword1.com
o Use keywords in your URL example.com/keyword2/keyword3.html
o Use dashes instead of underscores to separate words in your URLs (keyword2-keyword3.html)
• Optimize your content
o Use keywords liberally yet appropriately throughout each page
o Have unique content
o Have quality content
• Use search engine friendly design
o Create a human sitemap
o Do not use inaccessible site navigation (JavaScript menus)
o Minimized outbound links
o Kept your pages under 100K in size
• Design the navigational structure of the site to channel PR to main pages (especially the homepage)
• Create a page that encourages webmasters to link to your site
o Provide them the relevant HTML to create their link to you
o Provide them with any images you may want them to use (although text links are better)
• Make sure your website is complete before launching it

Immediately after launching your site you should do the following:

• Submit your site to all major search engines
o Google (Use a Google SiteMap)
o Yahoo (Use the page list option)
o MSN (Finds your site via incomming links)
o Ask (Finds your site via incomming links)
• Submit your site to all free directories
o DMOZ (also powers Google Directory)
o JoeAnt
• Submit your site to relevant directories
o Find more at ISEDB
• Begin a link building campaign (attempting to get keywords in the link anchor text)
o Put a link to your website in your forum signatures
o Reply to relevant blog posts (Don't spam please)
o Submit articles to relevant websites

If you will pay to promote your website:

• Submit your site to pay directories
o Yahoo
o GoGuides
• Purchase text links from high PR (Pagerank) sites related to your site

Finally, as part of an ongoing strategy:

• Continually update your website will quality, unique content
• Continually seek free links preferably from sites in your genre

Do NOT do the following:

• Make an all Flash website (without an HTML alternative)
• Use JavaScript for navigation
• Spam other websites for incomming links
• Launch your site before it is done
• Use duplicate content
o Point several domains to one site without using a 301 redirect
• Use markup inappropiately
o Style <H>eader tags to look like regular text
o Hide content using 'display: hidden' (for the sake of hiding text)
• Use other "black hat" techniques (unless you accept the risk - Banning)
o Doorway/Landing pages
o Cloaking
o Hidden text
o Keyword stuffing

Additional Tips:

• Usable and accessible sites tend to be search engine friendly by their very nature
• Be patient! High rankings don't happen overnight
• Don't obsess with any one search engine. They are all worth your attention.

credit: SP


Great tips , i have done all this .. maybe i do not have enough backlinks .. i am currently submitting to 500 directories :)

[ablaye]

Great tips , i have done all this .. maybe i do not have enough backlinks .. i am currently submitting to 500 directories :)

How are you submitting to 500 directories? Are you doing this manually?

[Web Gazelle]

I disagree using the Google sitemap you can get new articles/entries to your site indexed faster
I wasn't refering to sitemaps. I was talking about just submitting your URL. Sitemaps is a good thing. Great for getting your site completely indexed.

[inferno3387]

Great tips , i have done all this .. maybe i do not have enough backlinks .. i am currently submitting to 500 directories :)

How are you submitting your sites to the directories/search engines? Are you doing them with software or what??:confused:

[TheHoff]

C'mon, SEO is easy! (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=63474)

i am finding it hard to understand why SEO is so easy ... i had thought it was harder

[z00pedup]

I wasn't refering to sitemaps. I was talking about just submitting your URL. Sitemaps is a good thing. Great for getting your site completely indexed.

aai aai

C'mon, SEO is easy!

HAHAHA..

[Web Gazelle]

aai aai



HAHAHA..
Thanks for sharing that insite. :rolleyes:

[z00pedup]

Hoff's post was funny.. gimme a break (;

[d16man]

If you submit to search engines, the main three will work Google, Yahoo, and MSN...most of the other good engines rely on their findings.

[ash1]

my sites are a few months old..but i never used sitemaps...is it wise to use sitemaps now even thought my sites are a few months old?

[Web Gazelle]

It is good if your having trouble getting the whole site indexed.

[davcheong]

Before you launch your site, you should have done the following:

- Optimized your <title> tags on each page to contain 1 - 3 keywords
- Create unique Meta Tags for each page
- Used appropriate markup where necessary (<h1>, <em>, etc.)
- Used keywords liberally yet appropriately throughout each page
- Designed the navigational structure of the site to channel PR to main pages (especially the homepage)
- Used Search Engine Friendly URLs (if necessary)
- Created a complete website with plenty of quality content
- Used keywords in your domain and url keyword1.com/keyword2/keyword3.html

Immediately after launching your site you should do the following:

- Submit your site, by hand, to all major search engines
- Submit your site to all free directories (dmoz, yahoo (if applicable), etc..)
- Begin a link building campaign (attempting to get keywords in the reciprocal link anchor text)

Finally, as part of an ongoing strategy:

- Continually update your website will quality content
- Continually seek free and reciprocal links preferably from sites in your genre

Although not bad recently I've felt that it could be much better. So I've come up with this:

Quote:

Before you write one line of code:

• Do keyword research to determine what keywords you want to target
While constructing your website you should do the following:
• Use markup to indicate the content of your site
o Optimize your <title> tags on each page to contain 1 - 3 keywords
o Create unique Meta Tags for each page
o Use header tags appropriately (H1 > H2 > H3)
o Use <strong> and <em> tags if appropriate
• Optimize your URLs
o Use Search Engine Friendly URLs (for dynamic sites)
o Use keywords in your domain keyword1.com
o Use keywords in your URL example.com/keyword2/keyword3.html
o Use dashes instead of underscores to separate words in your URLs (keyword2-keyword3.html)
• Optimize your content
o Use keywords liberally yet appropriately throughout each page
o Have unique content
o Have quality content
• Use search engine friendly design
o Create a human sitemap
o Do not use inaccessible site navigation (JavaScript menus)
o Minimized outbound links
o Kept your pages under 100K in size
• Design the navigational structure of the site to channel PR to main pages (especially the homepage)
• Create a page that encourages webmasters to link to your site
o Provide them the relevant HTML to create their link to you
o Provide them with any images you may want them to use (although text links are better)
• Make sure your website is complete before launching it

Immediately after launching your site you should do the following:

• Submit your site to all major search engines
o Google (Use a Google SiteMap)
o Yahoo (Use the page list option)
o MSN (Finds your site via incomming links)
o Ask (Finds your site via incomming links)
• Submit your site to all free directories
o DMOZ (also powers Google Directory)
o JoeAnt
• Submit your site to relevant directories
o Find more at ISEDB
• Begin a link building campaign (attempting to get keywords in the link anchor text)
o Put a link to your website in your forum signatures
o Reply to relevant blog posts (Don't spam please)
o Submit articles to relevant websites

If you will pay to promote your website:

• Submit your site to pay directories
o Yahoo
o GoGuides
• Purchase text links from high PR (Pagerank) sites related to your site

Finally, as part of an ongoing strategy:

• Continually update your website will quality, unique content
• Continually seek free links preferably from sites in your genre

Do NOT do the following:

• Make an all Flash website (without an HTML alternative)
• Use JavaScript for navigation
• Spam other websites for incomming links
• Launch your site before it is done
• Use duplicate content
o Point several domains to one site without using a 301 redirect
• Use markup inappropiately
o Style <H>eader tags to look like regular text
o Hide content using 'display: hidden' (for the sake of hiding text)
• Use other "black hat" techniques (unless you accept the risk - Banning)
o Doorway/Landing pages
o Cloaking
o Hidden text
o Keyword stuffing

Additional Tips:

• Usable and accessible sites tend to be search engine friendly by their very nature
• Be patient! High rankings don't happen overnight
• Don't obsess with any one search engine. They are all worth your attention.

credit: SP

Great explaination and tips. is it really advicable to spam others?

[z00pedup]

Great explaination and tips. is it really advicable to spam others?

Please reread my post - it says DO NOT do the following in the last section of tips. :)

[davcheong]

Please reread my post - it says DO NOT do the following in the last section of tips. :)

Now that i noticed, was depressed at the time i post on there. Lucky that you mentioned. Good point.