Search Engine Marketing Wars

Any search or query on a crawler-based search engine like Google or Yahoo results in display of thousands or millions of matching web sites. In most case however only the first ten are the most relevant matches found and are commonly displayed on the first results page.

It therefore becomes very obvious that any webmaster would target to keep his website in the first 10 results. One other reason for this being that any visitor is most likely to find his search in the first ten results. Moreover listing beyond the ten would take the website listing beyond the first results page and thus missing the visitor's eye.

The following tips and tricks may help you the webmaster to get closer to the goal of getting on to that first 10 results.

Careful picking of Target Keywords

Visitors search by simple English words or phrases, keyword for you. Make sure each page on your website is optimized for a keyword relevant to its content. The target keywords should always be two or more words in length. A single word is never specific and you will be fighting the odds, wasting time.

Position Keywords properly

After picking the keywords they should be placed properly. First and the foremost in the page's HTML tag. Then comes the page title, name the page title using the prioritized two or three phrases, for which you want the page to be found. Don't elongate the title; keep it short and sweet, like newspaper headlines. Keep your keywords at a ''higher'' level on the page, towards the top. They should appear in greater density in first one or two paragraphs.

Avoid usage of tables at the top of the page. This may result in pushing down the content; as a result the keywords will not appear ''higher'' on the page. This happens because the tables are broken when the search engine searches. Also, please avoid using too much of java script. Search engines read java script first and then HTML, again pushing your content downwards.

Always keep relevant content

Content should always correspond to the keywords you optimize the page for. This will make sure the keywords are reflected in the content. Make sure the text is visible and do not use hidden text. If the text is not ''visible'', search engine do not base their searches on it anymore. Expand you references or keywords; this will add legitimacy to you content.

Avoid using features that could be Search Engine Stumbling Blocks

Search engines do not recognize maps, frames and image based text. Keep it simple and keep it there, for better results.

HTML links and Link building

Create links using HTM or text, avoid using image links. Search engines cannot index images so they will no tread the links if they are image links. Always make sure that you link your website internal pages properly, this will result in the search engines finding more of your site. Link building is very important with relevant websites. Use text links to do this. This helps page ranking, page ranking rubs off, so please make sure that the links are relevant and make sense.

Finally, do not get obsessed over your website ranking. Despite following all the rules, if you still do not get ranked, you would have realized that search engines are not for your traffic. Try other ways instead of wasting your time.

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