How to Improve Your Google Listing and Achieve a Higher Search Engine Ranking

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span                            the search engines crawl your
class="cap">There       site because XML sitemaps update
are many ways in which you      as you add new pages to your
can improve your Google listing,      site. Your site map should
and some work better than others      uploaded to the root directory of
depending on the type of website      your website.

you have or on your niche. Here

2. Start up a blog using one
are ways in which you can get a       of the two main free blogging
higher Google ranking, or even a      hosts, Blogger or Wordpress. In
better search engine ranking in       fact, why not use both and get
general.                              the benefit of each? Blogger is
We shall forget about onpage SEO      owned by Google, so a Blogger
such as use of meta tags and use      blog is of particular benefit for
of keywords since that has been       Google listings. Put the URL of
done to death by now. There are      the pages of your website that
other things that you can do to       you want promote on your blog,
improve your search engine            and these pages will be visited
ranking, and among them are:

next time your blog is crawled.

1. Put a site map on your

website. You can generate an XML

3. Open an account with
site map using any of several         Technorati, and some of the other
tools listed on Google, and a         social bookmarking sites, and
simple, search should enable you      submit your blog to them. Ping
to find one. Once you have            them each time you make a new
followed the instructions, you        posting, and you will get good
should submit the site map to         exposure to search engines
Google and to Yahoo, and each         whenever they visit these sites
will then be able to crawl your       (which is very often).

website without hindrance. It

4. Use social networking sites
will also be updated each time such as YouTube, MySpace and

Facebook to advertise your blog,      having to negotiate reciprocal
or even your website. In fact put     links. These days are long gone.
both your blog and your website

on these sites, and you will get

7. Register with Google
one-way back-links to your site,      Webmaster Tools, and check out
thus improving your Google            their analysis of your website.
PageRank and search engine            The software can detect broken
results positions.

links, but more importantly, can

5. Make sure that all of your     carry out other tasks such as
links are open. Nothing ruins        making sure that only one form of
your Google listing than broken       your URL is recognized, and
links, and you must test all of       checking out your Meta tags.
your links to make sure that they     Although these are not used as
are all working. You aren't          much as previously, they are used
expected to do that manually, and     or Google wouldn't be checking
there is software available           them for you!

online to test your links for

8. Register for a free
you.

Squidoo lens, and use your URL on

6. Avoid reciprocal links         that. Not simply just as a URL,
like the plague, unless you have      but as a means of solving a
arranged them privately and both      problem. A Squidoo lens is like
of you are happy with their           a mini-website, and you can use
positioning. Links farms, and         it to present a problem, and then
large list pages on which you are     your website as a solution. Not
at #259 on the SEO page, are not      only does that get you one-way
only useless with respect to any      back-links to your choice of
PageRank votes, but can actually      website page, but also the
do you harm. So steer clear of       potential of loads of traffic:
them. There are enough ways of       people that want their problem
securing one-way links without        solved.

So there are eight methods of enhanced.

promoting your website and            nd>About the
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these are very effective off site     are only eight methods of
methods of doing so, other than 1     improving your Google listings,
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than meta tags and the correct        engine-rank.com/improved-search-e
html tags.

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Apply each one of these and        will provide you with many more
you should be rewarded with an        methods of attaining a very high
improved Google listing, and your     search engine ranking for your
search engine ranking in general      website.