In this article you will find simple steps to have your page at the top of the Google search engine. With about 20 inbound links and following the easy steps below, you can achieve a high ranking for your site. Sites in non captive areas or with town locations attached to the keyword phrase can easly obtain a first page position using these techniques.

1. The Title Tag. The title tag is still one of the most important parts in optimizing your site for Google. Over the past months Google has become more sophisticated in detecting spam in titles. We recommend having one or two words, followed by your keyword phrase, and about five words after that. If your keyword phrase has more than three words you should separate the fourth word from the third so you are not hit for spamming.

1. The description tag. This is the second most important part in achieving a highly ranked site. Another important thing to remember is the title will only get displayed if ALL the keywords typed into Google appear in your title. If not, Google will grab text from your document. We recommend that the description not only have the words in your keyword phrase, but all the words that may be used when searching for your site. This way you can insure your title is displayed. We recommend having about three words for your title, followed by about two words in your keyword phrase. At the end of the title include the first word of your keyword phrase.

1. Alt tags. This is the description that is displayed if your browser is unable to load the corresponding image. The first alt tag should have ALL your keywords in it. The following ones should have one or two of your keyword phrases.

1. The body text is also one of the most important components in optimizing your site.

1. Size of text: You might have noticed Wikipedia receives high rankings. This is due to the amount of text on each web page. Currently Google encourages 1800 pages of text on your page. We recommend at least 200 words.
2. Header text: Each block of text should use the header tag. Google gives presidens to text with the h1 header tag. We recommend around four sets of header text. The first header should include all the words of your keyword phrase. If the phrase is three or less words, try to have the exact keyword phrase. For longer keyword phrases separate the phrase with words. The middle headers should have about half the words in your keyword phrase.
3. Keyword density: Google is now becoming stricter on spamming. We used to use a ratio of 5% now we recomend a total density of 3%. We recommend that you have about 1.5% density of the keyword phrase followed by 1.5% for each word that makes up the keyword phrase. This will ensure you pass through Google's spam detector. Your density should be highest at the top, then the bottom and the middle the terms will appear less, hence why the density will be lower. If you have 300 words of text, 3% percent will have your phrase 9 times. Have about four on the first 100 words, 3 at the bottom and 2 times in the middle.
4. Bold face: Have your keyword phrase bold faced one time near the top

1. Outbound links. It seems as though Google is now not only looking at who points to you, but who you point to. We recommend you perform a Google search to find the top ranked sites for your keyword phrase and then at the bottom have links pointing to them.

About The Author

Ted Pottel is a useful SEO Engineer at ActiveTechConsuling You may allso visit my hobby web site at AllThingsPhoto.com

Ted Pottel is a senior SEO engineer for ActiveTechConsulting and FindMeOnTheWeb.BIZ. Currently ALL his clients web sites are listed on Google’s first page. His background is as the lead architect Engineer for TSMC’s semiconductor plant

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