How to optimize your site for Google

by ravi chauhan on March 29, 2010

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search ranking position How to optimize your site for Google

Does Google care for SEO? Yes it does:It’s well known to industry experts that the Search engine optimization(SEO) is the process of choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a website, and ensuring that the website places well when those keyword phrases are part of a Web search.Nobody knows. The formula for ranking pages at Google is one of their best kept secrets. So, I’d like to preempt that everything I speculate here are just my uneducated guessings.

Google is not very particular about the exact words used to describe your messages to your audience. However the bots do want you to show relevancy in topics through your website.the search engine is pretty transparent when it comes to how it prefers you to optimize your site for inclusion.You can start optimizing for Google today. Below are Some areas you can work on for more visibility in Google.

1. Keep your site design pretty simple – You really will not impress most visitors with super fancy designs and flashy videos. On Google’s side these are computerized visitors, not human traffic.

2.Ensure your site is up to speed - Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed on his blog that speed will become a ranking factor on Google. Search engine speed is important to users. That gives Google more of an edge than it has already  unless others can catch up.

3.Meta Tags should definitely be used -Google mainly uses Meta Tags, such as your Title, Description, and Keyword tags to correctly index your site and put it in the right category.This Meta tag analysis tool will help you analyze your web pages and check for search engine compatibility.
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4. Find Your Google Keyword Ranking – You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keywords. You go to find out why you aren’t getting more clicks. You have to know how good a shot you have at getting a better listing. You can also check GoRank.com – it has a free tool that will calculate it for you. Prepare your page with that in mind, re-upload, and you’re almost done.

5.Do not purchase a new domain unless you have to -Your best bet is to use your existing domain.If you’re redesigning or starting from scratch and you have to use a brand-new domain for some reason, you can expect to wait a good 9-12 months before your site will show up in Google for any keyword phrases that are important to you.

6. Make sure your site is link-worthy-Other sites linking to yours is a critical component of a successful search engine optimization campaign, as all of the major search engines place a good deal of emphasis on your site’s overall link popularity.

7.Create real-time content -Good content gets linked from other sites. Links are votes. Whenever a web page links to you, your site gets vote points in the Google.By asking every friend of yours to link to you can definitely get your page rank higher.Google also added “hot topics” to Google Trends, which shows the most common topics people are publishing on the web in real time. Google’s new search technologies enable it to monitor over a billion documents and process hundreds of millions of real-time changes daily.it is now more important than ever for companies to have a social media presence, create new content for relevant social media sites on a regular basis

8.Avoid Black Hat SEO Techniques-These techniques include keyword stuffing, doorway pages, invisible text, and more. These practices actually do raise your site ranking. However, search engine spiders have become very aware of Black Hat seo techniques and can spot them pretty easily.

9.Know Who is Your Target Audience -Your target audience knows what they want and what they are searching for, and you must know what that is before you can deliver what they want.It just takes a bit of preplanning that will really pay off in the end.

10. Use Top level domain name - TLDs like .info, .tv, .biz are given less authority because of a large number of “spammy” sites with these extensions. TLDs with high authority seem to be .edu, .gov and .org . The most popular TLD remains .com and although it can be used by sites in any country.Setup your Google Webmaster Tools Google asks you to set up the geographic location of your site. You can also set this up at a later point,but this option is not available for a country specific TLD like .in, .de, .fr, etc.

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{ 22 comments… read them below or add one }

Loveish March 29, 2010 at 3:33 am

This is a killer article. Great work Ravi keep it up

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VISHAL March 30, 2010 at 2:57 pm

This is really nice article ..Thanks for the post dude

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Simran March 30, 2010 at 10:33 pm

These are really nice tips …

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Andre Ong March 31, 2010 at 2:48 am

Nice tips. I will give it a try if i need to. Thanks for sharing.

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zcb257 April 2, 2010 at 7:57 am

This is a really useful guide. I had a website that was fairly involved, and it would drive me crazy with the various glitches in different browsers ect. A guide like this helps from the get go.

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Rakesh Solanki April 3, 2010 at 11:40 pm

you mentioned all important tips which is really good for seo, thanks for sharing.

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Anish K.S April 5, 2010 at 8:40 am

Great tips, usually all posting some simple tips, but these post is really good.

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Dany April 6, 2010 at 11:13 am

nice tips. I hav been looking out for a such a clean article coz i was thinking to start a cool blog like urs. it really helps.

hope i can start a blog soon too :D

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VISHAL April 7, 2010 at 1:17 pm

@ Dany

Yeah dude, Why can’t you start your own blog as you are involving much in blogger activities

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Ellen Joy Castel April 9, 2010 at 3:42 am

and besides, having a blog offers tons of privileges. One of which is the opportunity to join a lot of online contests

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VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 6:13 pm

It’s not like that.. You can open blog to share your thoughts, connect with online friends, Blogging passion and all

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Simran April 8, 2010 at 8:31 am

@Dany

If you are going to start a blog, I suggest buy your own domain name before starting your blog and don’t chose any subdomain .

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Dany April 8, 2010 at 10:36 pm

@vishal and @simran i started a blog called contestfreaks in blogger.com on feb and it growed rapidly in a month got more thn 300 page views/day in a month but unfortunately google deleted it a week back stating “LINK SPAMMING” . idk wat i did wrong..

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Ellen Joy Castel April 9, 2010 at 3:38 am

Did you try to recover it? one of my blogs was also deleted a couple of weeks ago. I received an email stating:”Your blog at http://ejcayaba.blogspot.com/ has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM”.

but then I requested for another review and they had it restored a few hours after they deleted it.

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VISHAL April 9, 2010 at 10:57 am

Even I am agree with Ellen… U Must try to recover that blog ..best luck from ma side

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Ellen Joy April 14, 2010 at 11:17 pm

@Dany: just try to log-in to blogger and click the request to recover option… If that won’t work, do try to send them an e-mail coz they will reply to you in just a few hours.

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VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 6:14 pm

Yeah just do send an email to blogger support center

Dany April 8, 2010 at 10:38 pm

@simran thanks for suggestion . but i need few bucks in my paypal 2 buy a domain na? my paypal acct is empty and unverified.. :D .. so no way i am gng to do it now

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Ellen Joy Castel April 9, 2010 at 3:32 am

” but i need few bucks in my paypal 2 buy a domain na” – are you a Filipino too?

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VISHAL April 9, 2010 at 10:59 am

I don think so…let danny clear the things

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Ellen Joy April 14, 2010 at 11:16 pm

hmmm.. i haven’t heard from dany for days now…

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VISHAL April 15, 2010 at 6:15 pm

AND DANNY IS FLIPINO :)

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