subject: IMPROVING YOUR GOOGLE RANKINGS 1 DAY AT A TIME [print this page] Community Service: Well, I don't really mean that you offer community service here, I mean getting involved in the internet and getting your name out there. However, by getting involved in forums, networking sites, blogs, quality directories and other online communities that are related or relevant to your website will help you grab eyeballs as well as improve your pagerank. Stop by these public places as much as possible and help people by answering their queries, posting helpful links that lead them to a solution (could be your website), and try to post information regarding your services or products. However, many of the community sites have a strong 'no spam' policy and may not allow you to have a signature with your website link.In Competition Lies Knowledge: Don't miss an opportunity to learn from your closest competitor. Keep exploring Google to find out the keywords used by the competition. You can also visit some of the highest ranked competitor websites and analyze them to see what they do differently. A hot tip is to check out the source code of the website to understand how to better yourself and your business. Try to find out the various authority sites that your competitors link get links from and try to build links from those sites yourself.Some of the other important techniques include using proper (valid) HTML or XHTML code, using META tags for keywords and page descriptions; publishing articles (to a select few popular article sites) to promote your services/products.
