I have seen my site hit #3 at Google, and some of my fellow
entrepreneurs are wondering how I did it. Well, it's no big secret, and it won't
cost you anything but your time. Here's what I did:
An article by Eliz
abeth
Piotrowski
I have seen my site hit #3 at Google, and some
of my fellow
entrepreneurs are wondering how I did it. Well, it's no big
secret, and it won't
cost you anything but your time. Here's what I did:
- I searched online for information
about the title
and description tags to get a better idea of what they should
say. http://www.selfpromotion.com
is a great site for this kind of information. It's all about
search engine
positioning, and it's free to sign up. However, your account
only stays active
for 4 weeks, after which the webmaster asks that you donate
money to his site
to keep your account active.
- I used Overture's free keyword tool
at http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/.
Just enter keywords that are relevant to your site, and
Overture will generate
the most popular search terms that people are using. I picked
the most popular
terms (making sure they were relevant), and made a list of
keywords for each
page of my site in Notepad.
- Next, I visited
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html.
This handy tool will check your meta tags and tell you if
there are too many
characters in your title, keyword and description. The above
site is just
one of many meta tag analyzers available on the net, so
beware - every analyzer
says something different when it comes to how many characters
your meta tags
should have. My advice? Pick one and stick with it, at least
for a while.
Otherwise, you will just get frustrated.
- As soon as I uploaded my pages with
their new meta
tags, I resubmitted to the search engines using (the former)
World Submitter
- http://www.worldwidepromoter.com/?strategy. Note: there are
some search
engines that require you to submit your site manually in
order to get listed.
Selfpromotion.com has great information and articles about
how to properly
submit to these engines. I wouldn't suggest submitting to the
search engines
more than once or twice per month, unless you want to run the
risk of being
accused of spamming them.
- If I see the opportunity to add my
link on a relevant
site, I go for it. The more links your site has to other
sites, the higher
you will rank in the search engines. However, you will want
to avoid linking
with sites that are your direct competition.
You may just find that selfpromotion.com is
the only place
you need to go for information about search engine positioning.
I did quite
a bit of research and found several sites with great
information, so I just
tried to combine them all. Am I a glutton for punishment?
Probably. But even
though it took hours to redo all of my meta tags from scratch,
it was well worth
it to see my site in Google's Top 10!
Elizabeth Piotrowski
Powerful ad copy is the key to producing the
visits and sales
you want. Drop by http://www.strategyadservice.com
for low-cost, effective solutions!
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