28 September 2013

Tips To Increase Your Search Engine Results

By Marcus Ryan


These days if your business is not on the search engines then most likely you are losing money. The world is moving online, businesses with high search engine listings usually get more traffic and sales than businesses that are 100% offline. In this article we are going to provide you with a few tips you can use to increase your rankings.

The very first thing you should do is compile a targeted list of keywords that are related to your site and business. If you want to rank high on the search engines then you need to make sure your on-site optimization is correct. Your website should contain related targeted keywords that even if you are not planning to rank for them the search engines might naturally rank your site for them.

Even though there are a lot of factors that could affect or improve your rankings there are a few proven tricks that are guaranteed to increase your rankings. An example would be to create a sitemap, sitemaps are great to tell search engines to crawl their content. You can use webmaster tools to track your website's behavior and get ideas on where you need to make improvements.

One of the things you should be doing to your site, especially if you have a blog is adding content regularly. Search engines love new original content the more the better. If your site gets updated frequently it will get crawl much faster than other sites which is a good sign to increase your rankings.

One factor that could affect your crawling rate is your website's design. If it has a lot of graphics it might slow down crawling rate which could impact the position of your site. But best of all create content for your readers not with the purpose of simply ranking but to provide value.

Hopefully by now you have realized how important is to have a well optimized website in order to achieve higher search engine rankings. But the only way to know if they work is to apply these tips and get to work because search engine optimization is all about experimenting to see what works best.




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