How do I increase my site ranking?

I am a novice at SEO, but here are two things that I focus on.

1. Make sure your keywords appear in your page content.
2. Aquire links from other relevant sites to yours.

That's too general a question, Dan. There are different aspects to SEO (website structure, copywriting, quality of links going to and from a page, competition, user experience, etc.) It's a lot like asking "how do I fix my car?" Well, what's wrong with your car? What do you want it to do? What doesn't it do?

It's usually best to evaluate on a case-by-case basis. So let's start with your car/website. What is it? What are your goals? Are they realistic? etc.

Not to send you away from here, but, spend some time at HighRankings.
A great forum for SEO

You can also try trafficswarm.com.I hope it will work.

No it won't!

You'll pay your money get a bunch of utterly useless bandwidth wasting "visitors" and have no sales and no change in "ranking"

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

That's too general a question, Dan. There are different aspects to SEO (website structure, copywriting, quality of links going to and from a page, competition, user experience, etc.) It's a lot like asking "how do I fix my car?" Well, what's wrong with your car? What do you want it to do? What doesn't it do?

It doesn't cool the engine, so it overheats in traffic, and it stalls when it's idling. One of these days it's going to stall on one of the floating bridges. I brought it to a mechanic, but he refused to give me a quote; he said he could fix what's wrong, and something else will break in three weeks.

How did you know I was having car trouble? And what does this have to do with seo?

In order to rank well you better know first the basic criteria used by SE to index a certain site..

Try this stuff:

Meta Tags: it tells SE and spiders how you want your site to be indexed and it helps to improve your position in SE.

Link Trade: for spiders to see huge of links going to your site. Make sure it is related and a relevant site

Optimize also your Title tag.. much better to use up to 65 characters including spaces where you can place combination of your target keywords just avoid redundant KW.

I also suggest creating of quality content
Link Building

The two main elements to boost your ranking would be site content and the quality and number of your inbound links.

Content can include, metatags, keywords, articles and your page design.

Avoid using images to represent important keywords as bots only read texts.

Avoid using too much html, css are much more SE friendly (more easily read by spiders).

And article marketing is the best way to increase one way links.

Good luck...

Link exchange is worthless, and can hurt your search ranking.

Not often you see so much old and useless information in one thread!

You can safely ignore the "advice" in posts #8 & #9

how come it became useless......

Anyway, link trade can't harm your site, or it depends on the site your going to link with..

so, from the top

Meta Tags: it tells SE and spiders how you want your site to be indexed and it helps to improve your position in SE.

Nope, Meta keywords element is of no use AT ALL for search engines.

Link Trade: for spiders to see huge of links going to your site. Make sure it is related and a relevant site

Nope! but not surprising to see this advice given it's source IP.

Optimize also your Title tag.. much better to use up to 65 characters including spaces where you can place combination of your target keywords just avoid redundant KW.

No Again!
Use the title element yes, For the rest of the statement forget it.

NEXT!

Content can include, metatags, keywords, articles and your page design.

What has the page design got to do with content??
Meta keywords isn't content either

Avoid using too much html, css are much more SE friendly (more easily read by spiders).

Huh???
You CANNOT use CSS WITHOUT using HTML it is an utter impossibility

And article marketing is the best way to increase one way links

Shock advice coming from someone with an "article" site in their signature, obviously no vested interest there then.

I'd suggest that both of you go and read The HighRankings Tips for Newbies thoroughly.

lol cracking thread, welcome to the SEO comedy station ! strange how people just post the same old crap over and over, no matter how much the people in the know rip them to bits lol !

Great stuff

Woc lol

Originally Posted by chrishirst

so, from the top


Nope, Meta keywords element is of no use AT ALL for search engines.

Not all search engines, as what I know..

I used to read seo article and it is one of my basis in replying on every thread
Anyway, thanks for some corrections

Originally Posted by mhaye_01

Not all search engines, as what I know..

These search engines that still give weight to the meta keywords tag - what are they called? I'm not aware of any.

best keyword for the site and have it well used. meaning, don't stuff keywords which hurts the site a lot.

WELL the google seo dance for google yahoo dance for yahoo msn hmm not sure here i think there a dance for this.

I still stand by the first steps of building a site

1.DOMAIN NAME = to be close if not the same as what you are selling as that get you top postion for even the biggest comption for a keyword

2. keep site simple to under stand for the crawlers ((google bots))
try to use good title for site with 2 or 3 main keywords that you think surfs will use to reach your site No stop word if possible (( and ,free, etc ect))
do the meta tags with your main keywords in the discription allso do mata tags for globle revist etc

keywords as well in your content on your site keep your links on the left hand side and static