SE Positioning: Top search engine ranking, now what?

Top search engine ranking, now what?

Written by Andy Beal

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Don’t get complacent

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Changing face of search engines

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'How to Achieve High Rankings in the Search Engines'

Written by Sue Doughty

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body of their content correctly. This is what is known as search engine optimization or keyword optimization.

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Keywords: Do's and Don'ts

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Use of Keywords

Keywords and keyword phrases must occur often and near repparttar 128173 beginning of repparttar 128174 TITLE tag, repparttar 128175 DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS meta tags and repparttar 128176 BODY5 of your web pages. The more frequent repparttar 128177 keywords appear and repparttar 128178 nearer they appear to repparttar 128179 beginning of repparttar 128180 tags and pages, repparttar 128181 greater repparttar 128182 chance of achieving high search engine positioning.

The tags3 that are most important for page optimization are (in repparttar 128183 following order):

1. The TITLE tag

Example: Plumbing Supplies Company

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Plumbing Supply Company

2. The DESCRIPTION meta tag

Example:

Use a plain English sentence of no more than 40 words for your description. Again, repparttar 128189 description should begin with repparttar 128190 most important keywords. Search engines will often use repparttar 128191 contents of this tag to display results of a search. If there is no description meta tag then repparttar 128192 search engine will attempt to build one from repparttar 128193 content at repparttar 128194 top of repparttar 128195 body of repparttar 128196 page. Words like "Back Next Products Support² won't mean anything to users reading search results. Also do not use a list of keywords as a description. Search engines will see this as an attempt to achieve a high ranking and will probably penalize you and your site may appear much lower on repparttar 128197 list as a result.

3. The KEYWORDS meta tag

Example:

Although repparttar 128198 keywords meta tag is important, most search engines will derive keywords from repparttar 128199 actual content of web pages. Nevertheless, you should include repparttar 128200 keywords meta tag in all pages you want indexed. Do not "spam4² repparttar 128201 search engines by repeating keywords. If you do you will most likely be penalized with a lower ranking or even banned altogether. Additionally, only use keywords that appear in repparttar 128202 actual content of repparttar 128203 page. If repparttar 128204 search engines detect that you are trying to score a high ranking by using keywords that have nothing to do with repparttar 128205 content of repparttar 128206 page then you risk being penalized or banned.

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