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Five Proven Steps to Top Search Engine Rankings

Sure, there are millions of websites out there, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to get your website top rankings in Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. Only a few of those sites are after the same keywords you want to rank for, and even those sites that have "your" keywords on them may not be competition for you. For instance, if your website is about target shooting, you'll easily rank ahead of someone who mentions that target shooting is one of his or her hobbies.

In fact, even webmasters who would like high rankings for "your" keywords won't be much of a threat, because they don't have the knowledge they need. Or, if they do, they fail to understand that website promotion must be an ongoing process.

If you're willing to continually work on your search engine rankings, you can get (and keep) rankings which will bring you lots of highly targeted traffic. Here's what you have to do.

1. Review your meta tags and make changes if necessary. There are any number of websites offering meta tag tips...many will actually create tags for you. Be sure your top keyword or top two keywords appear in your title tag, with your best keyword first, if possible. Be inclusive in the keyword tag, but don't "stuff" it and don't list keywords that don't appear on your site at least twice. List keywords in order of importance. Your description tag should be written to draw surfers in.

2. Sign up for a few of the many good website promotion email newsletters. You can learn all kinds of techniques and tips from folks who spend all day promoting websites. I especially recommend Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/ and LED Digest http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/52/77/. If you have time, read the archives as well as the new issues.

3. Add social bookmark icons to your website so your visitors can use them to help you promote it. One of the sites offering free icons is http://www.social-bookmark-script.com/generator.htm.

4. Write articles and submit them to article submission websites. You can submit your articles individually or use a submission software tool or service. By including an author's box with your website URL at the end of your articles (like the author's box below, every page) every webmaster that adds your article to his or her site will link to you, helping to improve your search engine rankings (especially on Google).

5. Engage in an ongoing, aggressive link building campaign. Submit your sites to at least the four or five top search engines and every relevant directory with reasonably high Google Page Rank. Then, use a tool like the one on http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/ to see which sites link to your competitors, and ask them to link to you. Or, you can hire an agency (including the one who offers the free tool listed above) to obtain links for you.

The five activities above, in my considered opinion, represent the best ways to promote your site. There are other ways as well...you might want to try them too. But, if you engage in the activities suggested here, you'll stand a great chance of achieving significant search engine ranking gains...the kind of gains that can ensure the success of your site.

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Daniel Z. Kane has six websites with top ten search engine rankings. He offers all website owners a free, ten lesson course on website promotion . One of his top ranked sites is on online degrees .

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