Most businesses don't take advantage of various techniques to increase search engine ranking , but few things on the Internet can be as beneficial as a high ranking on a search engine. A recent Forrester Research report showed that 80% of web surfers discover the new websites that they visit through search engines (such as Yahoo, Google, or MSN). According to iProspect, 85% of web users use search engines to find solutions and vendors. Properly optimizing a website to increase your search engine ranking for each page helps it to attract numerous, highly targeted visitors- visitors that may become buyers. For the technically inclined, there are numerous places on the web to get detailed, in-depth information on how to achieve a high ranking on a search engine. However, many people don't care about the technical aspects of search engine optimization- they just want to know what is wrong with their website (and how to fix it). What follows is a practical guide that covers some of the most basic tips that can be used to increase search engine ranking. It is in no way intended to be comprehensive, but it should help the average website owner determine whether their website is optimized, and if not, how to make some simple changes to give each individual page of their website a better chance for a high ranking on a search engine. Issue #1- The Title Bar This is one of the most often overlooked techniques to increase search engine ranking. On your homepage, what does the title bar say? If you use Internet Explorer, this is the blue bar at the very top of the window that displays your page (it may include the words "Microsoft Internet Explorer" at the end). Does your company name appear here by itself when you have more important keywords to emphasize? Worse yet, does it say "untitled"? If you want to increase the search engine ranking for that page, this area should contain the most important keywords you see on your homepage. To check the rest of your website, click on any link from your homepage and see if the words in this title bar change for each page in your website. They should - and each title bar should contain the most important keywords from its corresponding page. Note: Very long keyword strings in the title bar should be avoided - six words or less is optimal. Also, words in the title bar should not repeat more than once, and identical words should not appear next to one another. coming more........
What's the NEW........????????????????? And u wud not believe those don't do optimization they also know these things....................
Raider you should know that newbie also arrive at digital point.... May be You are pro but you should leave some space for newbies... Thanks....
Mr. NEWBIE you shud know u r copying this article twice what it does mean??????????????????????? http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=979956
While this is great information to many who know nothing about optimizing their website, to those who are little more seasoned in the SEO game then its kind of just re iterating the point!!! None the less it is useful and besides can we really be mad at him for posting in here to try and create a back link to his website, isn't that what its all about?? ** Have your own website for under 10/month** Visit us at www.webprise.com
If your web page does not contain any heading tags <H1>. I highly recommend adding these as they do make a difference in your search engine ranking. If you find that the font is too big you can either edit your style sheet to make the tags use a smaller font or simply put the font size between the tags. In your META description and META keywords tags.Most search engines no longer use the META tags as these have been abused in the past and filled with hundreds of (often irrelevant) keywords by people hoping to trick the search engines. It’s also worth mentioning that it is good to have your keywords in the domain name itself. It is probably too late for this, as you already have your website, but it is useful to know this for the future. Increasing your Ranking by Posting in Online Forums There are hundreds of forums on the internet. I by myself mostly visit http://www.bigboards.com for a massive list of forums. Once you have selected a number of forums that match your niche you will need to investigate to determine whether or not they have excess rules regulating signature files. For instance, some sites do not allow any links in signature files; others, by contrast, allow links, but do not allow any commercial links. Make sure you know what the rules are before you post. Otherwise, you are simply setting yourself up to be banned from the forum. Next, take the list of forums you have created – that are both relevant to your topic and allow commercial links – and begin developing a reputation on those forums. The best way to start your forum marketing is to make multiple posts on a forum board before you even setup a signature file, which includes a link to your site. Even if the particular forum you are using does not specifically mandate this, you will want to do this, anyway, as it will increase your credibility – which is your real goal. Make sure you make relevant and useful posts on the forum. By this I mean no spam posts advertising your website and no short “I agree†or “me too†posts. Making spammy posts is the easiest way to get people to have no respect for you and potentially lose your login account for that forum. When you add your site to your signature if possible try to use your keywords in the anchor text of the link. Increasing your Ranking by Reciprocal Linking Reciprocal linking is when two websites link to each other. It involves asking other webmasters if they are willing to link to your site in return for a link to their site. Reciprocal linking is less popular than it used to be but it will still make a positive difference to your search engine ranking. Google and other search engines give less weighting to reciprocal links in comparison to the one way links that you’ll receive through article and directory submission. Increasing your Ranking by Commenting on Blogs Commenting on other people’s blogs used to be a very common way of getting backlinks. Unfortunately this was abused as many spammers posted hundreds of thousands of irrelevant comments on blogs to get a backlink. For this reason a new tag attribute called “nofollow†was introduced. This attribute tells search engines that the link has been added by a third party and that it should not be given any weight as a backlink. What does this mean for you? Basically, commenting on blogs is no longer a particularly viable method of acquiring backlinks, unless the blog owner has disabled the “no follow†attribute. If you still wish to use this method for increasing your backlinks you can find a list of blogs without the “nofollow†attribute here: Despite all of this, posting comments on blogs can still be a good way to get some extra traffic as readers of that blog may follow your link after reading your comments. Whatever you decide to do, ensure that your blog comments are useful, intelligent and spam free. Increasing your Ranking by Social Bookmarking In the last few years many new sites known as “Social Bookmarking†sites have popped up. These sites allow people to bookmark pages that they like and access their bookmarks from anywhere in the world. People can also browse the web by visiting pages that other people have bookmarked. Unlike search engines these sites rely on users to bookmark pages that they like and the more times a page is bookmarked the more popular it is perceived to be. When you add new pages to your site or blog it also makes sense for you to bookmark these pages on some of the social bookmarking sites. I recommend visiting a site called http://www.onlywire.com You can sign up for free and then register for most of the good social bookmarking sites through this site. It will take about an hour to register for all the sites and once you have done this you simply need to bookmark a page once on Only Wire and it will automatically bookmark your page on all the other social bookmarking sites. Saving Time by Outsourcing To build up enough backlinks to your site to obtain a good search engine ranking takes time. You need to spend at least four or five hours a week implementing some or all of the techniques that I have described in this section. If you don’t have time to do this you may want to find someone to help you with some or all of your site promotion e.g. writing articles for distribution, distributing articles, submitting your site to directories, writing content for your site or blog, submitting your blog to directories. Please Keep posting your valuable comments and make this thread more popular and mega thread on DP Forums about SEO & SE Ranking. I would like to have also some comments from Digital Point Forum Staff.
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There is no point in c&ping year old articles http://www.mediumblue.com/newsletters/increase-ranking.html and saying 'it's for newbies'. If 'newbies' want to know about that subject, they know how to use google, they can look it up as well as you can. You don't understand what you're copying, I doubt if you've read it all, so you can't discuss it or answer questions on the content. The problem that dp has is that it rarely gets beyond the 'it's for newbies' stage, because of the number of people posting stuff they've just copied.
davidmethew - Neebs are always welcome. But don't copy and past. The forum will jump on you for it. May I suggest, start by asking a question that you don't know. Like, How many keyword phrases should be in the H1 tag? How many keyword phrases should be in the <title> tag? Keep the question to ~ 50 words. Then read and answer the answers.