How To Improve Your Search Engine Ranking

With search engines like Google currently indexing over 8 billion pages, it is becoming more and more difficult to get a top search engine ranking. Type in a popular search phrase such as "Internet Marketing" into Yahoo or Google and you will be returned over 8 million results! Unless your website is in the first two or three pages, it is unlikely that you will receive many visitors from search engines. So what should a webmaster do to give their website thebest chance of ranking high in the search engines? All search engines work slightly differently and have ever changing algorithms for ranking web pages, but these tips can be applied when planning, developing or marketing a website to help you reach that top page of search engine results. (1) Choose your keywords carefully It's extremely important to set aside time to research your keywords. It's best to do this in the planning stages, before developing your website, but many of us start a website without knowing a thing about how the search engines work, so you may find yourself doing this weeks or months later. Try to choose phrases that are searched on frequently and if possible have a low number of competing websites. To get an idea of the number of times a keyword is searched for per month, type a keyword into the box at (3) Start Linking One of the most important criteria in getting a good search engine ranking is the number of backlinks you have to your website from related websites. Type in your chosen keywords to Yahoo or Google and take note of the top 3 sites returned to you. Now go to http://www.googlerankings.com/ Suzanne Morrison is the webmaster and owner of http://www.homebiz-direct.com/internetMarketing.html