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07.13.10

Increasing Your Site Ranking Through SEO

By Joe Griffin

There are so many tips out there that tell us how to conduct an effective SEO campaign to help our websites achieve their full potential. Search engine optimization is the key to website success as it increases your website's marketability, and ultimately, it helps site owners achieve their end goals, whether it's profit maximization or increased awareness for a certain news topic.

A lot of these articles discuss the many different elements of SEO, so much so that you might be bewildered on which of these aspects you really want to give priority.

True, most of the existing tips on the Internet are able to cover all aspects of ethical and organic SEO. However, there are so many effective ways to increase your search engine rankings that it is often difficult to remember all of them. What you would want is to determine what SEO techniques are the most effective AND ethical and focus on them. Doing this will save you so much time while getting the most out of these techniques. Moreover, we have to utilize the right methods to avoid penalties from doing black hat SEO tactics.

Here are the five best ethical SEO tips to consider that will boost your search rankings:

1. Offer Fresh Quality Content

One of the basic techniques used to achieve success in SEO campaigns is to create well-planned site contents. Content is one of the biggest determinants of SEO success and search engine rankings. A website can only be ready to undergo SEO improvements when it has all the fresh and interesting content that it needs to attract readers to begin with. As the publisher of your site, you have the duty to regularly input unique content that are relevant to your target audience for search engines to take notice.


Always keep in mind of the quantity and quality of the topics you put in. This can be tedious, but it will surely pay off.

2. Use Anchor Texts

The relevance of the anchor text is one of the most important elements in determining rankings. An anchor text is the link text, and it is vital to review their relevance with respect to your content. Your external links carrying the anchor text should be related to the page within your domain that they all link to. Make sure if the external link's substance is relevant to the keywords or phrases with your target page. It will even bring more boosts if the external link includes related keywords that are located in sections where search engines find most important, like the body of the text. Make sure that the keywords used in your site URL, tags, the body of the content, and links directing to your pages are relevant to your site's content.

The anchor text is an important attribute that gives all of your pages ranking values that are measured by search engines. More importantly, search engines recognize that anchor texts that contain exact matches to your topic has greater ranking value than keywords combined as a long anchor text phrase, since long text phrases specify the query too much and limits your visibility in search engines.

Continue reading this article.


About the author:
Joe has over 12 years experience in the search engine marketing industry. He co-founded Submitawebsite.com in 1997, served as a Vice President, Media at iCrossing for 3-years, and sold Submitawebsite to Web.com (Nasdaq:WWWW) in April 2007. Joe is Managing Director at iAcquire, and oversees corporate development and business strategy.
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