GET YOUR WEBSITE IN TOP RANK IN GOOGLE

I know it’s a bold claim: To Get To The Top Of Google.
I can easily get my new websites to rank on the FIRST PAGE of Google search results, sometimes in a matter of days.
I don’t mean to boast about it - I just want to share what I know. :0)
I’ll also let you in on a new INCOMING LINK BUILDING METHOD that I just discovered, about which I’m excited. I’ll talk about it near the end of this post.

WHAT IS SEO
SEO is search engine optimization - it is actually not that difficult. Short of writing a book about it, I’ll explain in layman terms.

SEO has 3 main factors:
1) On-page optimization
This means the site structure, meta tags (title and description) of each page. Wordpress for example, is a good platform to use, provided it is used with the right SEO plugins.
A MUST-HAVE plugin for SEO purposes is All-in-one SEO Pack.

2) Off-page optimization
Simply, the incoming links to your website. Not just any link, but related quality links that are not seen by the search engines as manipulative. More about that below.

3) Contents
Continually updated and well themed contents. Which is why Web 2.0 sites (social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook etc) are doing well because the contents are freshly and regularly contributed by users.
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I’ll cover more on off-page factor, because it is by far the MOST IMPORTANT of the 3.
Just remember this:

INCOMING LINKS => HIGHER PAGERANK => MORE VISITORS
Except for Google which awards Pagerank to websites, it’s the same principle for all search engines: more QUALITY incoming links means the site will rank better in the search results, which means MORE VISITORS if your website is among the first page (top ten) of search results.

THE TRICK IS WHERE OR HOW to build incoming links.
Before that, let me relate what’s happening right now.
It saddens me to learn that many people I know literally have their online livelihood wiped out overnight, as a result of the recent Google algorithm update.
These are the professional bloggers who get paid to blog for others. Google tracks these (some of the services leave behind footprints like “Sponsored Post”), and decided to penalize these blogs, by downgrading their blogs which are enjoying Pagerank 4, PR5 or even PR6, to a PR ZERO.
As a result, they cannot meet the requirements to blog for earnings, as their blogs no longer have Pagerank value.
This leads to what I said earlier: the incoming links must not be seen as manipulative. Other examples are reciprocal links, paid text links, link exchange networks etc. As long as there are footprints, the search engines will come after them.

HOW TO GET INCOMING LINKS
The traditional link building methods are:* Article submission* Posting blog comments* Forum signatures* Trackback posts (if you have a blog)
The newer ones are:* Squidoo Lens* Social bookmarking* Yahoo Answers* Video sharing sites
These are big topics on their own, so I’ll not discuss here. Don’t worry, just search for these terms in Google - there are lots of resources about them.
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HOW TO MEASURE WEBSITE PERFORMANCE - FREE TOOLS
Once you have good contents and several incoming links, you should begin to see traffic from the search engines. The time taken for this to happen depends on several factors, notably the competitiveness of the niche.
I’ll now show you the free tools you can use to monitor how your website is PERFORMING, including the exact search terms that visitors are finding your website - you’ll BE SURPRISED what these terms are.
The tools show you the number of visitors, where they come from, and which search terms that they used to arrive at your website. Isn’t that exciting ?
For Wordpress blogs, I’d recommend WP-Slimstat-EX (don’t be confused with WP-Slimstat, which is a preceding version).
For other types of websites, you can install Firestats (free for personal use)
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CAN A NEW WEBSITE GO FROM PR0 TO PR4 IN 5 WEEKS ?
It was easy to get high Pagerank 1-2 years back. Nowadays it is increasingly difficult to get good Pagerank as Google tightens its criteria in awarding Pagerank. A Pagerank 4 or 5 is considered good these days, compared to a PR 5-6 months ago.
Now there’s another interesting method of acquiring incoming links that I just came to know about.
These incoming links are from high traffic, high Pagerank sites, so you get traffic AND Pagerank benefits flowing to your website. (No, it’s not social bookmarking sites which have been heavily abused.)
With this method, it is proven that a new website can get from PR0 to PR4 in 5 weeks.
This is new to me, and I’m excited about it. Based on my years of experience in dabbling with SEO, I know this is a workable method, with NO RISK of being penalized.
I’m certainly going to spend the next few days trying out this technique for my websites.
Discover more about this technique HERE.
The website actually tells you what this technique is, shows you the test site, and where he got the links from. No wishy-washy beat-around-the-bush hype. It will cost you only $7 to know the step-by-step methods of doing it.