Great Rankings
Author: Adrian Lawrence
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Great Rankings.
Getting a high page ranking in the major search engines is the ultimate goal of all websites. By attaining a high ranking more people will likely visit the website when they do a search using the keywords used in the website. The heavy internet traffic will also mean that you will likely sell more products or get more requests for your services.
But have you ever wondered why some web pages do well in terms of page ranking in search engines while others do not? It is because the webmasters of successful web pages take great pains in following the methods that ensure good page ranking results - that is, good keyword optimisation - at each step of composing a web page.
If you want your web pages to rank well in search engines, follow these tips and advice:
* Always remember to use text with deliberation in each page. Ensure that you always have well written copy about your subject that uses a fair amount of your keywords the page throughout the body copy. But be conscious that you are not turning the text too keyword heavy that it turns into spam text. Always keep the focus of your text and your copy.
* Pay extra attention to the tags, especially the following:
Title tag - The title tag is located at the top part of the browser window. A majority of search engines will display the words or contents of the title tag in the listings so make sure that the title tag has been written well.
Description tag - This appears at the top section of a web page. The description tag should contain one or more repetitions of the main keyword that is related with the web page.
Keywords tag - Like the description tag, this is also located at the head section of the web page. This is a list of the keywords that are used in the page.
Alt tag - This also means the alternate text and used along with an image. The alt tag is useful because search engines do not read the contents of images and some people turn off the loading of images in their browsers. The text serves to fill in for the missing image.
* You should build up the linkages of your website to other sites. Search engines consider inbound links as a "vote of confidence" for your website so the more links there are, the higher your page ranking. Offer link exchanges with other sites that are related to your business. Search engines put added weight for links that use your keywords in the hyperlink so try to negotiate for these kinds of links. If your chosen keyword or keyword phrase proves to be competitive then you will need hundreds (or even thousands) of links to make it more effective. Remember though that search engines would only give weight to quality addresses. Linking to bad neigbourhodds can damage your rankings so make the effort to check each link partner.
Make sure that your website is indexed by the major search engines. If, for whatever reason, your site does not appear automatically you can be proactive and submit your website to various directory listings. But remember that not all links are equal. A listing in a reputable site like the DMOZ directory has much more weight than listings in other, more obscure, directories.
Adrian is the webmaster for indexplex a leading web directory This article is free to republish provided a working hyperlink is retained.