These are the 3 basic steps to optimize your site

1. Find good keywords for your domain name
2. Use your 'target keywords' in your Title
3. You must have a good content with your target keywords. Should be a relevant content.

There are a lot of other factors which matter's. Doing the above stuff are important but it does not bring the required results....

ok ive done that and everything else i can think of and i cant get higher than page 3 on google...

this is for the keywords "Real Hustle" for my site real-hustle.com

Originally Posted by freelancesam

ok ive done that and everything else i can think of and i cant get higher than page 3 on google...

this is for the keywords "Real Hustle" for my site real-hustle.com

1) Make sure you use the h1 Tag, put real hustle or some sentence with real hustle in it, still use the h2 tag, just focus on seperate keywodrs in that.

2) Change your title to reflect your 2 or 3 big keyword phrases - IE: "Real Hustle, KeywordPhrase 2, Keyword Phrase3 - Real-Hustle.com"

3) Make sure your homepage has atleast 500 words of content, make sure you have real hustle in there, bolded at least once, possibly italics as well

4) Rewrite your URLS do remove the querystrings, IE: real-hustle.com/articles/index.php?Page=Tech = realhustle.com/articles/tech.html

5) this is the most important of them all..... GET MORE LINKS! You show 0 backlinks in yahoo, this is most likely why you are page 3, get more links, make sure the place that links to you ios relevant to your content, make sure that you link text says "Real Hustle" in it if thats what you want to rank for.


Real hustle is a weak keyword phrase, only generates 3k searches a month and you have 2.2 million results to compete with. Plus on the homepage you have 4 youtube videos to compete with. You could probably find a better phrase to complement your site than real hustle that has same # of competitors but gets 10x as many hits a month and doesn't have a first page plagued with youtube videos... Altho - you could always do that, make a youtube video for your site... heh

- Loren

I agree with Loren, but there are more way to earn traffic for your site, such as articles, blogging and more! Good keyword is very important

Originally Posted by allysa

I agree with Loren, but there are more way to earn traffic for your site, such as articles, blogging and more! Good keyword is very important

Yes, i just laid out a few examples, there are tons of things that can be done, go research on different SEO methods, there is so much to learn regarding it, and it changes frequently.

Originally Posted by freelancesam
ok ive done that and everything else i can think of and i cant get higher than page 3 on google...

this is for the keywords "Real Hustle" for my site real-hustle.com

Yes! Article marketing really helps and it worked for me greatly in driving in traffic. Did you ever try that? I think by putting in some good quality articles you can surely get into better google postions.

Try "Web Optimization Easy", it will optimize many important factors that will drive some better ranking.

some good tips, if you use the bum marketing approach when it comes time to do article marketing and you do it properly you can get some great results.

Agreed that BUM MARKETING pays a lot in the present day of IM as the unique content is rewarded.

this is the most important of them all..... GET MORE LINKS! You show 0 backlinks in yahoo, this is most likely why you are page 3, get more links, make sure the place that links to you ios relevant to your content, make sure that you link text says "Real Hustle" in it if thats what you want to rank for.

I totally agree this is the most vital part..
STeve

I would rather have 10 backlinks to high ranking sites than a gazillion back links to other places.

Good seo tips it will be helpful for all.

Proper link building and making sure that both your onpage (titles, headers, meta, keyword, content, etc.) and offpage ( using your keywords as anchor texts) optimization are attuned - this is what would get you high rankings.

You can try following tips.

1.Keywords in <title> tag
This is one of the most important places to have a keyword because what is written inside the <title> tag shows in search results as your page title. The title tag must be short (6 or 7 words at most) and the the keyword must be near the beginning.


2
Keywords in URL
Keywords in URLs help a lot - e.g. - http://domainname.com/seo-services.html, where “SEO services” is the keyword phrase you attempt to rank well for. But if you don't have the keywords in other parts of the document, don't rely on having them in the URL.


3
Keyword density in document text
Another very important factor you need to check. 3-7 % for major keywords is best, 1-2 for minor. Keyword density of over 10% is suspicious and looks more like keyword stuffing, than a naturally written text.