10 Quick Things You Can Do Today To Boost Your Search Ranking
You know all that extra time you have to work on Search engine optimization
? A little sarcasm there. Really, I tried to put together a list of quick things you can do which will help you move just a little higher in your Google or Yahoo results.
1. Get listed in more search engines. You will find a lot of them out there. You will find also many free services that will assist you to get listed. Or simply set aside some time to get it done yourself. Here is a free search engine submission website that will allow you to cycle through the top 100 search engines and get your website submitted.
2. Get listed in more directories. Again, you will find a great deal of them out there. Look for higher pagerank directories. Improvingrank.com has some listed by pagerank. Look on the left side of the homepage.
3. Clean up your html and check your links. You want the bots to have smooth sailing through your website. Make use of the tools on W3c.org and have a real person check them over too.
4. Get a couple of more links to your site. Make them relevant and at least the same pagerank as you.
5. Make your page filenames descriptive and keyword rich. Naming your page new_page_1.html is wasting an opportunity to do certain Seo. Make use of names that describe the content and keep the keywords flowing.
6. Check your Title tags. You can make use of 90 - 100 characters in the title, so add a few keywords. We all know Google looks at them, and so do many more search engines.
7. Check your ALT tags. Searchbots can't see photos. Make sure you have ALT tags on all your photos, and make sure they are descriptive and keyword rich.
8. Rewrite your URL (anchor) tags. Good anchor tags (the text between the http: and /a tags) reinforce the message and key words of your site.
9. Go post in a few forums and put your website in your signature. Forums are a great place to put one way links. And you can assist somebody out all at once .
10. Put together a text based sitemap and put it on your website. There's a great deal of navigation that spiders can't comprehend, for example flash, forms, java and javascript. Putting together a text-based sitemap gives the bots a way to navigate around the website.
15 minutes every couple of days will make a large difference in getting your rank higher.