How to rank well in the search engines.

Written by Clare Lawrence


How to rank well inrepparttar search engines. By Clare Lawrence 30th May 2004

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Want a better website ranking?

Written by Clare Lawrence


Want a better website ranking? By Clare Lawrence 8th June 2004

Almost everyone wants to improve their rankings inrepparttar search engines, also known as Search engine results placement. How to do it? The web is full of services offering to submit your website to 1,000’s of search engines and directories for $19.99.

As you might imagine nearly all of these services produce very disappointing results.

How should I go about it? I focus on Google,repparttar 127880 leading search engine as it currently accounts for about 56% of global web searches. I have also learnt by painful and expensive experience but got there.

Play byrepparttar 127881 rules

First things first. Google is fighting a war against spammers, those who attempt to artificially inflate their SERPS. To be successful inrepparttar 127882 long run you need to keep torepparttar 127883 guidelines. Google helpfully publishes these at www.google.com/guidelines.htm

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Content is King

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Decide on what keywords you want to rank under.

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Links

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