I have people telling me anout backlinks and text links and A-B-C links, and meta tags, among other things. Is it a combination of all these that get you a better rank? Or is it one primary thing? Any help would be appreciated.

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it one primary thing!

I think from what I have deal with it is a combination of things. It is not just one thing.

You have to have all the pieces in place if you want to rate high in the search engines for popular keywords.

There is onpage seo and offpage seo

onpage is the things like the metaga tags that you mentioned. This would also include your content, and having a sitemap.

offpage seo is creating backlinks to your website. You want links from other high page ranking website. A text link is your keyword linked to your site - for example internet marketing tools

How to get backlinks:
1) Forum marketing. Place links your signature (just like you have done)
2) Article marketing. Write articles related to your niche and submit them to high page ranking article directories. Include links in the "about the author" section
3) Press releases. issue a press release about your website to sites like prweb

That is just for starters. It is a ongoing process.
Best of luck to ya!

This post has been edited by serveandshare: Jan 14 2008, 09:12 PM

according to dean hunt, nothing is more important than buzz around your site/blog.

I've heard that reciprocal linking doesn't do much to improve ranking these days (especially with google)...but rather one way links to your website are better to improve rankings. Has anyone else heard or read about this?

I can say only one thing:it's all about backlinks.You can optimize your site no matter how good,put good content,but if someone have a lot's of quality backlinks you have no chance.

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Yea that is sufficient to start SEO. You'll need to use them in proper manner.

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And yes you're right it really is a combination of thins that get you a better PR... but don't try too hard to get a good PR cause google catches on to that and will give you negative PR.

Also don't forget about LSI and Silo structure. These are new and important factors in determining website rank in Google. You must write your content so that appears like it has a real human element to it. Google is starting to crack down on content that is trying to hard to be optimized and can tell if you are just trying to rank for a certain term.

LSI is simply writing your content so that it contains words that are related to your primary keyword as well as variations of the keyword. Having proper Silo structure is making sure that your website is setup and well organized with deep links, style sheets and tight categories with related content to each one.

Just building links and content is good enough for SEO, but when combined with these two things can produce very powerful search engine traffic and long term rankings.

Also i noticed on some keyword top results are sites which have tons of paid one way links.Somuch about new google policy which forbid such things.

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