What SEO should you start with ?

Search Engine Optimization, abbreviated as SEO, is a way of getting your website a higher ranking in the listings of search engines. However, SEOs, as many presume, are not keys to instantaneous success. They gradually improve the ranking of a site if used properly. The function of an SEO is to help increase your income by boosting pertinent traffic to your website.


To begin with, you must have a user-friendly website without any technical flaws due to inclusion of Flash, Java Scripts, frames etc. This site design has to be approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Geared with a site, you can start the SEO work by submitting your site to Google, Yahoo! or MSN. Google is easily the best search engine you would want to be listed to.


Google advices one to increase the number of high quality links in order to get a high ranking.
For the high quality links, just go to Google Search and view the top ten sites. Linking these to your site will boost your chances of a higher ranking.


The ten best sites on Google can be safely considered as “high-quality” sites as they are evidently given that status by Google. Viewing the links of these high-quality sites is also helpful because we can presume that these sites attained a high Google ranking because they had high quality links.


An easy way to find out the links to these sites is to type “links” followed by the URL of a top site at the search box. You can repeat this procedure for other sites with a high ranking.


Now that you have the available links, you can get in touch with the Webmasters of these sites and inform them that you have added their sites as links to your own. Now, you will request them to add your site to their links as well. This procedure, known as “reciprocal linking”, greatly boosts the ranking prospect of your site and attracts a large amount of search engine traffic your site.


Although most webmasters will agree to your proposal, some will reject it. To avoid rejection, it is best to contact sites that have a link exchange plan. The sites with this agenda will have a useful link directory and may ask you to fill a web form with the particulars of your site. For reciprocal linking, it is appropriate if you too have a web form to allow interested webmasters send you requests for link exchange.

Do not accept all link exchange requests. Lay down specific criterion that a site should meet for link exchange. Relevance is a very important factor behind high ranking in Google. Having links that have topics related to yours improves your chances of getting a high ranking. Sieve through the net for prospective link partners who will have related content. These are bound to give you high quality links that will do a world of good to your Google ranking. 

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