subject: High Rankings On Google: Get In The Top Two Pages And Sell Products Or Services [print this page] A high ranking in the search engines comes from off page optimization. After I write articles for my website, I come up with a SEO plan to rank well in the search engines. When you look at SEO it is different than traffic. When looking at traffic I think of using social media to promote my website. Many of the social media websites will bring visitors to your site without using your SEO keywords.
When it comes to link directories, I'll use only the top ones. I have not had that great of success posting to them all. Because of this I'll go for the ones that gear towards a specific niche.
I suggest going out and finding a piece of software that finds high PR ranking sites. Some programs you can actually take a look at the competition and view where their links are coming from. Now I'll duplicate what the competition does.
I'll come up with a good list of keywords then from the competitions point of view I'll figure out if my time and money is worth going after them. I'll test the keyword phrases out on a blog. I write everything down that I'm doing and go back to reexamine it. This way I'll be successful.
Next, I'll take a look at the longer tailed keywords and I'll start driving traffic to my website. If you take the words that don't have that much competition, you'll start to build up a steady flow of traffic.
I copy what the competition is doing. They have software out there now that will help you with this task. You can find out who is linking to your competition and do the exact same thing. Sometimes people hang out with certain people and form joint ventures with them. I'll try and do the same thing with these people as well.
Many times the competition will use Web 2.0 to boost their rankings. They are borrowing the PR ranking from these sites and passing it along to their website. Now you can see just how much work you have to do to outrank them. Last, it all comes down to how many links the other website has going to theirs. Find out and do more to out rank them.
I enjoy writing articles for my website. When I publish my articles to the directories, I don't use them all; I'll just use the top ones. It's relaxing for me to drive traffic to my website using articles because many times people will use them and put them up on their website or put the article in an eZine. This helps me out with my high rankings in the search engines, because they always post a link going from their website to yours.
