How to get First Place in Google

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 by Sam

Every webmaster strives to get top ranking for their website in major search engines like Google as it results in a lot of highly targeted visitors. The best part is that you don’t need to spend any money on advertising in order to bring these visitors to your website. First place in Google also gives the impression that you have an authority site. However, it is quite competitive to achieve the first spot as everyone is trying to do the same for their website. If we keep a few things in mind, you can make this process a little easier.

  • Quality content
    This might not be a new thing for you but this is still the most basic and most important thing to do. Build a website that offers unique and valuable content to the website visitors. Nice websites with good keyword placement throughout the conent naturally attract search engines as well as visitors.
  • Keyword targeting
    Another significant thing is to target the right keywords. You cannot expect your site to be on top for multiple keywords. So, you should never target a lot of keywords at the same time. Try to target a main keywords and  sometimes a few other important keywords. The keywords should be selected with care as they go a long way to achieving that all important first place in Google.

    Don’t ignore the importance of long-tail keywords as they have a lot less competition and it is easier to get first place in Google for these keywords. So, do some research with a couple of keyword tools and make a list of the best keywords. Then target those keywords in title, body, tags, meta tags, etc. However, don’t overuse them or your site might get penalized by search engines. Maintaining an optimum keyword density is important. If you stuff a lot of keywords, this may turn-off visitors. Remember that you are building a website for visitors and optimizing it for search engines.

  • Quality inbound links
    If your website has a lot of quality inbound links, search engines will realize the value of your site and it will get high rankings in search engines. Valuable websites naturally receive backlinks from other websites. However, there are a few methods that you can implement as a part of the link building process. Link exchange with quality websites is a good way of building links. Links from .edu websites are of high value. Include relevant anchor text while building links.

Getting first place in Google might not always be possible, but follow the tips above to give you a head start and don’t forget, nothing is impossible for a hard working webmaster!

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