subject: Follow These Suggestions for Improving Search Rank [print this page] Follow These Suggestions for Improving Search Rank
Proper search engine optimization, or SEO, is a surefire method for gaining targeted traffic to your websites. You can have the highest quality site in existence, but if no one knows about it - then what use is it? Obviously there's more to it than just having a website, or blog. Things work differently over here, which is why you have to focus on optimizing your site for the search engines and get it to rank for your targeted keywords. Ok, great - now let's move onto some meat and potatoes SEO techniques.
While it can be very easy to focus in on just one variable of optimization, it is important to focus on all of them. Many marketers focus on their site's page rank to the exclusion of all else. Your sites search rank is determine by several factors. There are sites with a lower page rank beating sites with a higher one. So what really matters is how you optimize your site and create backlinks for it. High page rank is only really helpful on a short-term basis. To keep your website's performance up, the best thing to do is continually look for areas where you can improve on the SEO.
High quality content is something that will set you apart from all the rest, and the search engines will like it, as well. The best content is unique, original, well researched, solves some kind of problem, or just informs people about something.
Naturally, it follows that if you put as much good content on your site as possible, you'll be in better standing with the search engines and your readers. And always avoid copying other people's content because you'll get slapped with a DMCA as well as problems with possible duplicate content caching.
If you don't have these aspects already researched, then what will happen is you'll have to go back and redo your site for the correct words, or just quit. Using Flash and heavy graphics that are not really necessary is something to be avoided. Search engine bots cannot read Flash, and if you use it you'll have a hard time getting your site crawled plus other headaches. It should be apparent that Flash interferes with proper SEO, and that's what you're trying to do in the first place. High search engine rankings can bring you all the traffic you need, but you have to be willing to do the proper SEO to get that. Ok, Flash and SEO do not mix very well - remember that, and also be sure you perform proper keyword research. Also, doing things the right way will establish trust from others in you, as well.