Right now, Google dominates the search engine market. If you want the greatest return on your
investment then you will need to focus the bulk of your time on Google.
In my endeavour of the past 10 weeks on getting my blog into
Google page 1 of search results, I have learnt a lot and I am still learning
every day. In this post I would like to
share 10 tips and learnings.
- Exactly how
Google ranks one site over another is one of the most closely guarded
secrets of the web industry.
- It appears
that the ranking for my blog changes almost on a daily basis, and the
ranking differs from one country to another.
- Search engines
are continually evolving and the algorithm Google uses to rank sites
changes constantly.
- I highly
recommend a powerful yet easy-to-use tool called Webfire to guide your
optimisation and tweaking towards getting into Google page 1.
- Research and
select the keyword that you would like to get ranked. Use a free
tool called Google Adwords Keyword Tool to help analyse
and select the targeting keywords relevant to your chosen niche market.
- Wherever
possible, include the keywords in your domain name. In the case of
my blog, I have incorporated the keywords "how to make cash
money" in the domain name http://how-to-make-cash-money.blogspot.com.
- Use Google
Analytics or the Blogger Stats tool to track daily traffic volume and
traffic sources. I did not realise
that my blog has been ranked into Top 20 until one day I saw “Search
Keywords” section showing people came to visit my blog by searching Google
on the keywords of “how to make cash money”.
- Ensure the Title
and Description sections of the website to have the exact match of the
targeting keywords. In my case, I
have embedded “how to make cash money” into the Title and Description
sections of my blog site.
- Build as many
backlinks as you can. I find that
this is probably not the most important determinant to Google ranking, as
my blog site has only 6 backlines so far.
Having said that, I suspect the ranking will improve as I build
lots of more backlinks in the comings weeks.
- Post relevant
articles regularly, at least two to three times a week. It appears that relevancy and consistency
is highly valued by Google in its ranking. I am now aiming to get my blog into Google Top 3 ranking in the next few months.
You can help me achieve this by engaging and interacting with my blog such as leaving a comment, sharing the post by clicking the social media buttons below the post to share my post via email, tweets, facebook, and g+1.
Thank you in advance for your help!
