HOW TO GET TO THE TOP OF SEARCH ENGINE - Getting to the top of search engines

How to get to the top of the search engines: Is every webmasters dream, being at the top or even the first page for your "search terms" will mean visitors. Visitors to your website, blog, forums mean you have a constant amount of people visiting your site to either purchase, participate and help you make money online. As we all know visitors mean money and exposure to the world wide web. Iam going to share with you tricks and advice to getting further up the search engines and then even on the first page!

How to use your keywords to get better results: Keywords play a major part in getting you higher up on the search engines for your targeted keywords. When building a page or making a website you will have to repeat your keywords over and in different variants IE keyword, keywords, key-wording, keyword-er etc. Search engines looks for different variants of the same word repeated so they know what your site is about so they can categories your website where it should be in the search engine.

What not to do when building your site

1. Hidden words
2. Tiny words
3. Keyword stuffing

1. Hidden words: Are words hidden in the same colour as the background of your page and cannot be seen by the eye, But search engines will know when there bots index your site.

2. Tiny words: Are so small they also cannot be seen by the eye, search engines will also be looking for these and you will be banned from them.

3. Keyword stuffing: Is also not a good idea and search engines will either no-index or ban you from there search engine or they will think your site is just spam and you will go to the bottom of the pile.

All of these techniques above will get your site either banned or so low on the search results you might as well not be there. Search engines are very clever and there bots will find any of the (so called tricks) very easily when they crawl your site.

What search engines like and look for:

• Headings H1,H2,H3 With your keywords in all and with different variants of the word and remember only one H1 heading per page.
  
• Bold words are a good indicator to the search engines as to what your site is about.
• Links are also a good indicator about your website to the search engines internal links and outward links to other resources, because search engines see links as being very helpful to the viewers and the main thing search engines care about are the people who use them.
• Make sure videos and pictures have keywords in the alt tags, but again do not keyword stuff and re-use the words over and over.
  

Getting backlinks for good search engine optimization Getting backlinks from high PageRank and quality websites, blogs and forums, is crucial for ranking well for your selected keywords on search engines like google, yahoo and Bing Search engines see backlinks as a vote from one sites to another.

How to get quality backlinks

You can get backlinks from forums, blogs, news sites, directories, social bookmarks and networking sites or find a good seo services.

What backlinks do i need

There are two types of backlinks

Do-follow backlinks allows search engine bots to follow the backlink to your site. And take any PageRank and anchor test with it.

No-follow backlinks do not allow search engine bots to follow the backlinks back to your site. But they can still be good for visitors to your site.

You want Do-follow backlinks because as stated above they follow the link and take any keywords (anchor text) with it, as well as any PageRank the site has to offer. The more Do-follow backlinks with anchor text you receive means more votes for your site with your preferred keywords and the higher your keywords will rank with your site behind them.

What is anchor text

Anchor text is the text associated with the backlink pointing to your site, say you comment on a blog you put car racing as your name then car racing will be your anchor text pointing back to your site.

Here is a simple piece of html that allows you to have your site behind your keyword you want to rank well for.

<a href="http://www.yoursite.co.uk">your keywords</a>

How not to get backlinks - What not do when getting get backlinks

Spam: Spam is the big NO NO when it comes to getting a good link building technique, no one likes spam and you will waste your time leaving short comments like "good site". Make your comments count and participate in the website by leaving on topic and adding to the sites content and you will be rewarded with a long term backlink.

Never buy backlinks: There are many sites offering hundreds of do-follow high pagerank backlinks for 9.99, never buy these offers because all you get are links from link farms with hundreds of links on the same page as you. Search engines will ban you if they find you are buying backlinks for keyword gain. Google, yahoo and Bing call these link farms bad neighbourhoods, why would you want your site you put so much effort in be associated with them. All your work will go to waste if you buy these links.

Extra tips to getting ranked well on search engines:

• Update your website with new and original content as often as you can. Search engines love new content to crawl and index.
  
• Look in your logs and see what search terms you are coming up on and get backlinks with them term. If you a high with the search term then getting more links will get you higher.
• Remember to use keywords when naming your pages.
• Keep your site simple and clean, search engines hate pages that take longer to load and will rank you lower for this.
• Use your keywords in H1,H2,H3 titles and make bold any other keywords.
• Make sure search engines can excess your site, if not check your robots.txt
• Check for broken links and remove them, search engines see these as broken and will down grade the site.
• Check for malware and html errors and correct them.
• Name pictures and give a description same rules apply to your links.

Goodluck with your seo if you have any questions just ask