Hi guys I am about to set up a skateboarding website, but I need to know how to get higher ranking in Google and other popular search engines. Please give me some advice Thanks Simon
If you're new to SEO then I suggest you to read the articles, forum posts, discussions in the first place to get the idea what is to be done. How you do it is upto to you. Also, it can take some to see the results. Links and Content are two main things to be considered while improving the rankings.
There is only one way to boost your SERP - gain backlinks from quality sites. Original content optimized for your keywords will help a lot too.
cool, thanks for the replies so far guys. BTW, probs not the right section, but how do I find out what my PR is?
The easiest way, install google toolbar and you will get instant PR of the site shown on your toolbar.
just do some keyword research and plc that keywords in ur onpage factors and start building backlinks.
Check PR: http://seopen.com/seopen-tools/pagerank.php Check PR of internal pages: http://www.livepr.info/internal-pages-page-rank3.php Or use this great extension for Firefox: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
Just start building natural links and optimize your site for it. For skateboarding, you'll need to do some keyword research as I'm not sure what kind of keywords you should be going for.
IMO only backlinks do not improve SERP rankings... I have sites with very few backlinks and with PR1 (although completely natural with no forced backlinks) and very high traffic and they are at top 5 of google rankings with highly competitive keywords Traffic + backlinks = good SERP