Search engines are the web’s most used means of driving traffic to websites, and knowledge of search engine marketing is essential to anybody wanting to succeed online. However knowledge of blogging techniques is also instrumental in gaining you a high position in the search engine listings fore your chosen keyword.
Sure, you can promote your site in many ways and there are more ways than a top listing on a search engine to drive traffic to your website, but there is nothing to beat a top ten listing on Google or one of the other major search engines such as Ask, Yahoo or MSN to provide you with consistent sustained traffic day after day after day.
It is not difficult to get listed in a search engine, but it not so easy to be listed in that all-important top 20 position. The top 10 is the ideal, but if you are listed on one of the first two pages of a major search engine, then the traffic will come to you. That is guaranteed. Naturally, the higher you are listed the better, and you will do an awful lot better on the first page than on the second, but if the best you can do is page three then you are going to need a lot more than search engines to help you attract business. Read more
If you start a new site from scratch and optimize it starting from onpage optimization up till offpage optimization it will take at least two months to see results.
Obviously there are some exceptions and the reasons are very difficult to identify sometimes. However such factors like the number of competition for your keywords and the type and quantity of links you get all effect how fast you get rankings.
Keep in mind that if you do get a ton of links fast and you get high rankings you need to keep getting a ton of links fast or you loose rankings. That is not realistic, so there is no fast way to get rankings. Getting links which are the core of optimization slowly and steadily will allow your site to rank and keep it rankings if you keep getting links slowly and steadily even after your site is ranked on top. Read more
What type of links are important to top rankings.
Backlinks are most important factor to get high rankings. There are several type of backlinks and you should get as many links as possible.
Link exchanges and one way links. Both are very important. You need both of them however the one way links are better than link exchanges. One way links can be obtained by doing:
Article submission. Directory submission. Creating a blog on your site and submitting the rss field to rss directories. Doing three way link exchanges. Posting in forums. Creating profiles in popular sites and indexing the profile page. Such as youtube and hi5 profiles. Creating a squidoo lens, google page and other related services. Submitting site to digg, shoutwire and related sites. Submitting site to social sites like del.ico.us and hundreds similar. Create an wiki page. Read more
Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, has become increasingly popular in the recent years. Webmasters try new tactics and strategies to beat the Search Engines to get their websites to rank high in the SERPs. SEO involves on-site as well as off-site factors. On-site factors include changes on the website, while off-site factors include promotions on other websites, links, forum postings, blog comments, banners and other related stuff. Out of the off-site seo factors, links have become more popular due to the importance Search Engines give to Incoming links.Link Building is the process by which you get incoming links to a website. The whole purpose behind link building is to improve the link popularity of a website. Read more
