28 Ways to Boost Your Website Ranking
- Foundation of the site is key. Ensure you have it built to current W3C standards utilizing such technologies as HTML, CSS and PHP
- Include meta-tags and keywords relative to content
- Body text and headings should support and reiterate keywords
- List your business for free on Google Maps
- Create a Google AdWords campaign
- Add a conversion form to your site
- Analyze your web traffic and adjust accordingly
- Use Google Analytics to check visitor trending such as, keyword usage and adjust accordingly
- Create a traffic funnel for how you want clients to navigate through your site
- Increase your external links to your site
- Periodically check for non-functioning or broken internal and external links
- Increase hits back to your site by doing regular email/eNewsletter marketing campaigns
- Add a "bookmark this page" to your site so customers can easily come back
- Add an "email this page to a friend" link to your site
- Don't use flash on your site
- Don't use frames on your site
- Don't use tables on your site
- Don't belong to a weblink or link ring. They don't work
- Regularly check your standing in popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) using keywords potential clients would be using
- Be sure your site loads quickly with graphics optimized for the web
- Keep content fresh as search engines seek out pages that are frequently updated and receive hits
- Be sure all links internal and external are all working
- Your website address should be printed on all business and marketing items
- Advertise your site in the many free online classifieds to increase traffic
- List your site with the hundreds of search engines out there - many are free
- Use text instead of images to tell of important links or information
- Purchase your domain name for long periods of time. Search engines see that as a stable, notable site.
- Submit a Sitemap (not sitemap) to search engines so they know of additional content