How to Improve Search Engine Ranking with Google

September 11, 2008 by Ellery  
Filed under Traffic

Anyone who has a website obviously wants that website to rank as
high as possible with the search engines and especially with the
largest search engine of all, Google. Getting a higher search
engine ranking means more visitors to your site, which means more
money for you. In this article you’ll get some very important tips
for how to improve search engine ranking with Google.

The exact way to get a great search engine ranking isn’t known.
This is because Google uses a formula to rank Websites and nobody
knows what the precise formula is. Plus Google changes the formula
regularly. But there are some important criteria that Google uses
and if you concentrate on these areas then your sites will rank
very well with Google.

  1. Backlinks:
    One of the major criteria Google uses to rank Websites is the
    number of links that go to your site. These links are called
    “backlinks” since they lead back to your site. The more backlinks
    your site has the better it will rank. And one way incoming links
    will help your ranking most (as opposed to reciprocal links).
  2. Quality of Content
    You want to have good content on your site and you want the content
    to all relate. Google will look to make sure that you have related
    topics. The more related topics you have – the more information on
    one subject – the higher your site will rank. If your site is
    sparse or contains unrelated information then Google will penalize
    it.
  3. Visitors Time on Site
    Another important factor for search engine ranking, one that’s
    often overlooked, is the time visitors spend on your site. If
    people click on your site then immediately click back out then that
    tells Google that your site must not be any good. Therefore your
    site will get knocked down in the rankings.
  4. Age
    The longer your site has existed the better it will rank.
  5. Keywords
    You want to make sure you include important keywords throughout
    your site. And then you also want to make sure you include related
    keywords too. This will help your site come up when the keywords
    are searched and it will also tell Google that your site is full of
    great information. This will greatly help your ranking.

These are five very important tips for how to improve search engine
ranking with Google. If you concentrate on these five things then
you will improve your site’s rankings over time. The good thing (or
bad thing depending how you look at it) is the higher you rank the
easier it is to rise to the top. It’s like getting a giant ball
rolling down hill. So focus on these five aspects for how to
improve search engine ranking with Google, and you will see better
and better results.

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