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Monday, January 6, 2014

Proven SEO Tips That Still Work

By Meagan Smith


How often have you searched for your own site using a search engine? Were you pleased with your site's placement, or were you left wondering why other sites that weren't as well designed as yours placed higher? SEO, or search engine optimization, can help you reach that top spot. Here are a few tips to show you how.

There's no doubt that the best type of traffic you can get for your website will come from the search engines. Basically visitors with credit card in hand ready to purchase your product or services. It really doesn't matter what you are selling, you need to be on the search engines. To increase your rankings you may start using directories to create more backlinks for your site.

Right now is all about quality, a few years ago it was all about quantity and building as many backlinks to your website as you possibly could. These days Google wants to see more quality backlinks and social signals from authority sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and basically high PR websites. It also helps to submit your sites to social bookmarking networks to increase your indexing rates even more.

Of course content also plays a very important role in SEO, today more than ever since Google release the Google panda and penguin updates that are focused on penalizing websites with spammy content only designed to get higher rankings. Your content must be unique and targeted towards your top 5 targeted keywords but in a way that doesn't look spammy.

For instance, focus your efforts on trying to get links from .edu websites, by writing content tailored to them or making them aware of your site, as search engines give them more weight than other endings, like .com or .org. Following these tips is only the start. You've got to find out more about SEO and investigate other sites to see what makes them work. The more SEO information you have, the more your site will benefit and rise in search engine- result rankings. Keep with it and soon your site will be at the very top.




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