If you have a new website and you want people to visit it, then you are probably going to be interested in learning about PageRank. So what is Google PageRank, and why does it matter? Well pretty much, PageRank is what the search site Google uses to determine the quality and popularity of a webpage. Thus, it really is choosing if the site will appear at the top of the search engines results. So if you want your site to come up in search results, then you should care about what PageRank things about your site!

When PageRank first came out, it usually ranked the sites with the highest keyword density at first.
During that period someone with basic seo skills was able to get a website in the top 10 results without to much hassle. People were using that weakness to rank their sites higher. Now that time is over and in order to get in the top 10 results on google you have to work harder and build a lot of back links to keep your head out of the water and generate some google organic traffic from google.

So how does Google PageRank rank your website now? Well, in theory, Google thinks that if a page has a lot of links leading to it, then it must be a pretty important site. Thus, if you have a lot of links out there on other sites leading back to your website, it is going to do wonders for your search engine ranking. In fact, you can think of a link on another site kind of like a vote for your site. So, say website A has a link to website B; then it would be like website A was voting for website B! Of course, it does not just stop there. Sites that have a higher ranking have more weight when voting. Thus, if you are linked to a lot of small, low ranked sites and then another site is just linked to one high ranked site, they could be ranked above you.

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SEO is not an easy task and SEO myths are getting wider every year. The reason is that it’s harder to determine which SEO action has changed the search engine results or in other words ranking of any website. Natural search results are with SEO mainly concerns.

Almost all SEO is only knowledge and when you join this search marketing industry, you really have to keep yourself on the top by learning some resurfacing and analyzed top SEO myths:

1. SEO is not a collection of tricks that can be used to get higher ranking. SEO doesn’t mean that you can fool the search engines. The algorithms and indexes rapidly change and search engines are being smartest from smarter everyday.

2. Meta tags should be updated regularly and list whatever you want in that tag. It helps to get found when searched for. And yeah, not all Meta tags are important: a few of them are.

3. Many people do believe that you should submit your site on weekly or monthly basis to search engines but it’s not like that. Submit your web site URL just once and search engines will bother to trace you.

4. A Google sitemap may help you to achieve a higher ranking as it helps to make a website crawler friendly. But it’s also true that it doesn’t guarantee for better ranking.

5. Update your website regularly as it’s the factor which increases the crawl rate. Updations can be done in case they’re required as unnecessary updates may hurt the ranking.

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After you have your website up and running the next thing you have to worry about is driving traffic to your site. One of the easiest and fun ways to do that is to use a blog. Its also a good way to share your expertise and gain credibility with your customers. They are able to see for themselves you really know what your what you are doing.

Setting up a blog is simple and there are many free blogs you can choose from wordpress and blogger are just two of the many available. They are easy to use and come complete with many features. All you need is a little creativity to successfully advertise your business.

1. Start with a nice design most blogs come with pre made templates you can change the colors and the images to make yours unique.

2. Keep adding new and unique content if you cant think of topics join other blogs and read to get some ideas.

3. Ping! If you want search engines to to pick up your blog then you must ping them everytime you add new content to your blog.

4. Advertise your business within your blog with a link to your business site. People don’t like typing in URL’s to visit sites. Make it easy for them.

5. Use your keywords. Search engines return results based on the keywords internet users put in the search. Make sure you include keywords in your blog that pertain to your business. It will increase the chances of your blog coming up in the search results.

Advertising is a very important part of your business. Your blog is free advertisement take advantage of that.

There are many ways to direct traffic to your website both paid and free. If you have a very small budget as we did the free way was the best way. Its very easy and requires patience and free time. You can do it a few hours a day or a few minutes depending on how fast you want to see results. We did it a few hours a day and within a month we made it to the first page in goggle search.

The first thing we are going to do is choose the best keyword for our site. We used Top 10 Hosts because our website deals with top 10 web hosting companies. Begin with creating your anchor which will be the link back to your site.

Now there are a few ways of doing this the first way we tried was using blogs with a high page rank pr3 or higher. First of all you should install the page rank tool in your tool bar it will give you the rank of every page you browse and make your work a whole lot easier. Once you have found a blog, read it and leave a comment on what you read. Most of the blogs the admin has to ok your post so better if you write something pertaining to what you read or your comment will be deleted. Then after your comment insert your anchor.

The second thing we did was to submit to web directories. There are many and alot of them are free. There is also another choice free with reciprocal link don’t choose those or the first page of your site will contain alot of backlinks to web directories. It takes a little longer to get reviewed but its free and in the end you will have the same result as a paid listing. The best directories the ones that carry the most weight are the ones pertaining to your site and what you do. Your niche,
you can submit to all the directories but the niche directories are most important.

The final thing i will discuss is article submission such as the article i am writing now you can write about anything you like or anything you might think would be of interest or help someone else. It takes a little longer than the other choices but its a great way to advertise yourself and your site. Submit your articles and drive additional traffic to your site. Good luck to you hope I hope this article will be of help to someone just starting out. Its hard in the beginning trying to understand how all of this works. Once you get into it all comes easily.

It is very difficult to choose the right keywords to describe your business so people can find you when they put those words in a search engine. Let’s say you are ready to build your website. Do you understand search engines and how they work? I’ll use Google as an example. Google sends a program called a spider to crawl your site and the information the spider collects goes back to the search engine which in turn determines your position in the search engine result pages (serp). You of course want your site to appear as close to the top of the search page as possible so more users will see it and visit your site. Thats where keywords and key phrases come into play.

Keywords are words that average people use to look for sites. So think of words that describe your site. Choosing the right keywords can mean the difference from being in the top 10 to being so far back in the search no one will find you. Google, uses the “density” factor in their algorithm. If keyword is mentioned more than once it must be part of a message. The search engine looks for repeated words and tries to form a message. You have to find the proper page relevance for the listings. The high relevance will give you a high page ranking and the low relevance a lower ranking.

The word you think is the best keyword may not always be so. There are many free tools online to help you accomplish finding keywords (wordtracker). Find a keyword with an equal level of supply and demand. Those keywords will drive traffic to your site by driving up your position in the search engine.

Once you have found the right keyword you will have to build your sites content around that keyword. This is critical. Try to blend the keyword into the content of your site without using it to many times. Your keyword shouldn’t count for more than 7% - 9% of each page’s content.