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How to achieve high ranking
 

One of the first steps you must take to achieve a top search engine ranking is to build a theme-based, content-rich web site.

Achieving a higher search engine ranking will bring you lots of traffic. More traffic means more sales. More sales means greater income.

Traffic building techniques

Search engines can deliver traffic for months—even years—without you ever having to tweak your pages again once you get it right. That means careful selection of your keywords.

High volume, ongoing traffic will mostly come from the following five sources —

  1. Major search engines

    › Google
    › Yahoo!
    › MSN
    › Jeeves

  2. Pay-per-click search engines

    » Google AdWords
    » Find What
    » Overture
    » Kanoodle
    » 7Search
    » Search123
    » Xuppa (formerly Bay9)

  3. Major directories

    » Yahoo!
    » DMOZ Open Directory

  4. Word of mouth

    » Reciprocal linking
    » Writing articles
    » Sig files
    » Posting to newsgroups, forums
      and discussion groups

  5. Your own opt-in newsletter or e-zine

Effective keywords

The use of effective keywords to describe the content of your site and to reach your targeted audience can drive tons of traffic to your web site.

Click here to learn more about keywords

Good ranking

You have many 'honest' methods available to you that will get you good page ranking. You don't need to resort to trickery.

Plenty of so-called experts making claims that they hold the 'secrets' to achieving a top ranking web site in the major search engines.

But the truth is... there are NO secrets... only methodologies for ranking and promotion.

Recommended tools

Site Build It!

This is one of the "mother of all business building methods". SBI! is not only the best way to build income through content, it's a great way to promote Site Build It!

With outstanding functions like —

  • Keyword brainstorming

  • Keyword ranking and keyword search reports (for SEs, Directories and PPCs) so you won't ever have to perform a manual keyword search again

  • 1-clcik Pay-Per-Click keyword research

WordTracker

Develop a master list of the profitable keywords with the help of WordTracker. Find out the exact words people are searching on.

1stSearchRanking

These people GUARANTEE that your web site will reach a top ranking in the major search engines.

They have developed a reliable way to drive lots of traffic to your web site...guaranteed! Your site will rank within the top 10 of the major search engines...or you will get back every penny!

WebPosition Gold

If your budget is lean and mean, pick up a copy of WebPosition Gold...we wouldn't part with ours.

WebPosition Gold —

  • Makes it easy to monitor your search positions and to improve your rankings!

  • An invaluable tool to save you time and to help build traffic to your web site

  • Reports your site's search positions and then helps you improve them

For a description that describes perfectly what WebPosition Gold does, click here.

Theme-based vs. gateway pages

A common practice of many is try to trick the search engines by creating pages called gateway or doorway pages.

Although these pages initially score well with the SEs and get the traffic, most fail to deliver any quality content. Consequently, they don't get the sale, the click through, or the repeat visit...

In other words, very low...or...ZERO return!

Using invisible links is another common trick. The purpose of invisible links is to lead the search engine spiders through a site.

Trickery may get the higher search engine ranking in the short-term, but ultimately the only things you'll gain is visitor disdain and getting banned from search engines.

And then you have to start all over...

Long term advantage

The way to not only achieve a high search engine ranking as well as give your visitor a reason to stick around long enough to click through, and/or buy something from you, and come back again is to...create a site with great content, and simply write that content in a way that will earn your site high ranking at the search engines.

Creating high-quality, real content will give you the edge you need to yield long-term, high-quality results.

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