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I have a client who claims he knows a guy that can make his website first on google. Is there a way to do so? I know you can pay to make it come up on the side bar, but are there any tricks out there to make it rank higher?

it has to be the #1 goggled site for that keyword.

Social networking sites can INCREASE your site’s traffic… Why on earth would you think that "blocking" them would help you get traffic?

Social networking in general can help to build up traffic to your site, but do VERY little to help your site’s rankings in the search engines UNLESS 1) you have a huge following and some of your followers begin linking to your site from their web sites or 2) you have something that goes viral on because of social networking and people begin linking to your site.

It’s LINKS that you get through social media that cause your pages to rank better in the search engines’ organic rankings.

What is Most Important SEO Factors for website ranking? Please explain briefly

Yes as stated above Jake J There is no such “Most Important” They all play a role. But here are few what I know and use:

1. Title Tag
This is what appears in the blue bar at the top of your browser, it comes from a metatag called "title". As well as being used as a pure factor in SERP, it also boosts rank in other ways. Some
engines use “click-through” rates as a factor. Sites where the title closely matches the content tend to get better click-throughs (searchers see its not a spam site). When words in the title are also used as anchor text in a link to the page, you get more benefit.

2. Anchor Text of Links
The phrasing, terms, order and length of a link’s anchor text is one of the largest factors taken into account by the major search engines for ranking. Specific anchor text links help a site to rank better for that particular term/phrase at the search engines. In other words, it’s the actual text that represents the link on a web page.

3. Keyword Use in Document Text
Your keywords must appear in the actual copy of the page. Supposedly search engines pay more attention to the first and last paragraphs. The way to go about this is have your keywords firmly
in your mind as you write your copy. I don’t know about you, but I find this really hard. I prefer a different approach. There is a simple trick here, write your quality content, then use a
keyword density tool to find the keyword density. THEN, take the top words and add them to the meta keywords tag for that page. This is somewhat backwards for some maybe, it optimizes a page for what you actually wrote, rather than trying to write a page optimized for certain words. I find I get much better correlation like this and can then tweak my text afterwards.
Sure, if you want to you can further optimize by having the keywords in header tags and bold etc. As a guide, these might contribute only a few percent to the SERP

4. Accessibility of Document
“Accessibility is anything on the page that impedes a search engine
spider’s ability to crawl a page. There can be a number of
culprits:”

• Avoid Splash Pages: Flash and heavily graphic introductions prohibit engines from crawling your site.
• Avoid Frames: Never use pages with frames. Frames are too complex for the crawlers and too cumbersome to index.
• Avoid Cookies: Never require cookies for Web site access! Search engine crawlers are unable to enter any cookierequired materials.
• Avoid JavaScript when Possible: Though JavaScript menus are very popular, they disable crawlers from accessing those links. Most, well-indexed Web sites incorporate textbased
links primarily because they are search engine friendly. If necessary, JavaScript should be referenced externally.
• Avoid Redirects: Search engines frown upon companies that use numerous Web sites to redirect to a single Website.
• Avoid Internal Dynamic URLs on the Home page: Though many sites incorporate internal dynamic links, they should not incorporate those links on the home page. Engine crawlers are currently ill-equipped to navigate dynamic links - which often pass numerous parameters using
excessive characters.
• Utilize Your Error Pages: Too often companies forget about error pages (such as 404 errors). Error pages should always re-direct "lost" users to valuable, text-based pages.
Placing text links to major site pages is an excellent practice. Visit www.cnet.com/error for an example of a well-utilized error page.

5. Links to Document from Site-Internal Pages
Even more important than the holy grail of external links is internal links. Who knew! Easily the most underrated criteria. But, it’s important to make sure you are making good use of anchor text. A well-linked to document is considered more important than an obscure page, even if the links are coming from the site itself.

6. Primary Subject Matter of Site
What your website is about is determined through analysis of the content. It’s critical that it correlates to keywords, anchor text, etc. One strange off shoot of this is perhaps it’s not worth spending much effort trying to build the page rank of the home page. This strange concept is explained in the idea of Search Engine Theme Pyramids. A related factor is having a good sitemap. Not only is it good spider food, you can also load it with lots of quality anchor text for
those internal links as well as relevancy text (that which appears near a link). Also important is the invisible Google sitemap which is an xml file for the Google spider only.

7. External Links to Linking Pages
These are the links from other sites to you. Note it’s much better to have specific pages linked rather than your homepage because of the idea of Search Engine Theme Pyramids. Don’t bother with link farms or anything you see advertised for a link. You are much better off finding links from sites that have similar topics as yourself.

8. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community
The search engine is trying to figure

Am thinking of changing the CMS I use for my website to the famous joomla. Will these affect my ranking on google for my top keyword. Please advice!!!
Thanx

There are a number of ways redesigning your website can impact your search engine rankings. Most of them have somewhat more to do with the design and development of the new site rather than with the CMS you use but your choice of CMS can impact how you execute the necessary work-arounds / solutions. Metapilot often work with clients who run into the following problems:

Changing URLs without implementing 301 redirects for each change will wreak havoc on your rankings. It’s not that Joomla prevents you from doing this–you just have to be sure to implement your redirects correctly.

The changing of content on individual pages can have a big impact. Even if you don’t change the wording, the CMS may place content elements in different locations within the HTML, causing search engines to understand the importance of some aspects of your content differently from the old page to the new page, and thus impact your rankings

Changes in how internal linking between pages is accomplished can have a huge impact on rankings for your pages. External backlinks to a page aren’t the only kind of links that help a page rank well–backlinks to a page from within the same site also count. Remember, when you are looking at a web page’s HTML, only the FIRST link to a specific page from that HTML counts towards "link juice" to that other page. If, in your redesign, you move to or add JS, image, or flash links, you can adversely impact rankings of numerous pages.

You may also find, due to the way your CMS creates URLs, that you end up with duplicate content issues on the new site that you didn’t have on your previous site. Duplicate content is the exact (or mostly exact) same content found on different URLs and it is typically a negative when it comes to SEO.

Changes to primary and secondary navigation can have a huge impact if not looked at closely from an SEO perspective. Will the new site be using CSS, JS, images, or flash? What was the old site using?

Of course, if your site is brand new, has no backlinks, and isn’t getting any traffic from search engines, there is no need to worry about the redesign effecting your rankings–just go for it. If your website is not in that situation, these are the things to pay close attention to from an SEO perspective.

I was thinking I could easily create a website with the only purpose of creating a link to my real website. Do you think this is worth the time and would it increase my page ranking on google?

You could, but any new site starts with a PageRank of zero on a scale of zero to ten.

A much better approach would be to create and submit 300-400 word articles to high quality article sites and link back to your main site at the end of each article.

The reason is that the article sites have been around a while and are trusted and respected by Google and other search engines.

The top article directories I like to use are:

EZineArticles.com PageRank 6
GoArticles.com PageRank 6
ArticleDashboard.com PageRank 5
ArticlesBase.com PageRank 5
Buzzle.com PageRank 5
Articlealley.com PageRank 5

I recommend you write a series of articles and submit a different article to each site. This approach is much easier and has much better results than creating another website from scratch just to link back to your main site. Do this and watch your site move up in the search engine rankings!

Good luck!

Go here and type in your url and the keyword(s) you want the rank for http://www.googlerankings.com/

Will having a Google ad on my website increase my ranking in Google search results? Honestly I think it does since it’ll bring money to Google but I just need confirmation from others just to be sure

Putting google ads will not helps on increase your site ranking. The site ranking is based on more than 200 factors but unfortunately google ads not at the list.

To increase your site ranking, you need to optimize it through domain name, title, keyword, keyword density, meta description and backlink with anchor text.

research for course work-simple answers only please

You want to make sure to optimize your site for the keywords that are related to your products or services. Update header tags and meta-tags.

Is there a website that accurately ranks school districts in each State?

http://www.greatschools.net/

Anyone know of ways to improve a website’s ranking from major search engines? I know in the past people used to stuff all sorts of keywords into the headers, and there are services which charge to improve ranking but I’m pretty sure they are mostly scams. Anything useful to do, besides advertise the site?

The best advice I can give you is to create original content rich pages and stay away from black hat SEO techniques it will get you banned from search engines.

Make sure you specify an accurate title in the TITLE tag (and use some of your targeted keywords near the beginning of your title)

Specify some keywords in the KEYWORDS META tag. Although it is not really used for ranking, it is used by search engines to confirm the contents of the page

And use the DESCRIPTION meta tag to give a short description of the page.

Do not use javascript for important links, do not participate in linking schemes or link farms, do not duplicate content on your site. Do not make the colour of your text the same as your background. Stay away from flash and excessive use of images.

There are many other do’s and don’ts so the bottom line is, create your pages with useful original content with the users of the content in mind. If you do that and supply the Internet community with helpful information you will rank high on the search engines because you are giving people what they are looking for.

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