Get To The Number One Position On Google

By Michael Fleischner

Putting up a web site is easier than ever. But having a good understanding of design doesn't help unless you also understand the power of designing your site in a way that improves your chances of top rankings. After I built my first website, I quickly learned that I knew nothing about SEO. As a result, I had to redesign my site after seeking out information about design and top rankings.

After I learned that good website design requires integration of SEO best practices, I was on a mission to learn more about search engine optimization principles being used by top websites and applying them to my own. It took me a good three months to learn about SEO and design principles because not a lot of good information existed on the Web. Once I understood the fundamentals, I began applying them to my own website.

Once I redesigned my website and applied the on page optimization techniques from reading dozens of web pages, blogs, and websites, I had a pretty good understanding of what I did wrong and how I could impact my search rankings. With the design tweaks I had made and a little extra effort, I was able to boost my position by about 40 spots. I was so impressed that I got hooked on learning more.

Even though I only saw moderate results with what I learned, it was enough to get me hooked. I finally understood that search results could be influenced not only by how you design your website, but through dozens of other factors. Some of these factors you control through your website and other via building connections throughout the web between authoritative websites and your own.

The most valuable lesson I learned about doing business on the web, from all my research, was that the most important aspect is choosing the right niche for your site. As a factor of segmentation, you also need to choose the right keywords to optimize for. Depending on the level of competition for that keyword or keyword phrase, the promise of top rankings might be easy, or for the most competitive keywords, extremely difficult.

Build a simple website. Dont get fancy and dont try to use the latest and greatest programming language. Start with a basic website coded in html. The search engines prefer this and you can make updates easily.

A really great thing you can do after your site is designed is focus on building in bound links. In bound links can be explained as links from other websites that point to your site. The value here is that Google in particular evaluates the sites linking to you and uses this information to rank your site in search results.

If you are searching for SEO related information and advice, be careful of self professed experts. You want to make sure that the advice you're receiving has been proven to work. Unfortunately, there aren't many "secrets" about SEO out there. What differentiates one technique from another is simply the strategy and process involved. You should always be learning more an experimenting with various SEO techniques.

Search engine optimization techniques work but the impact happens over an extended period of time. This means that you need to continually be focused on SEO and learning more about search engines. As search engines update their algorithms, consider looking at new methods, tools, and resources to improve your organic rankings. This is essential for success.

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