Make Top Search Engine Position for Free

How many times have you heard webmasters ask you things like "What search
engine do most of your visitors come from?" or "I got a great ranking on
Altavista using META tags - what tactics do you use?". Everywhere you go
there are newsletters telling you the "definate way" to get your site in the
Top 10 search engine ranking. Businesses pump millions into search engine
positioning every day. How can your humble website survive? There are a set
of simple rules you should stick to in order to get a good position on all
the major search engines and yet not spend a penny:

>> META TAGS
Meta tags are the lines at the top of your web page's HTML that search
engines see first and they look like:



That would be a typical META description tag for Mike's DIY Shop, containing
all the important keywords that surfers will likely type into their
favourite search engine. Don't have more than 10 keywords or else they will
each be far less effective, so the less the better. Also, phrases tend to
work better, especially if they are unique. Don't put in common keywords
like 'computer, free, chat' etc. You can be sure top businesses have payed
to get a top ranking with these words already so just use them in phrases,
like "DIY chat". Including one *very* rare keyword will likely push your
site right to the top if it is typed by a surfer.

>> TITLE TAG
This is by far the most important tag of all in the art of search engine
positioning. Include all your keywords and of course, the name of your site.
Don't use words in the title tag that have nothing to do with your website
or that are not included in your main body text or your site ranking will be
greatly degraded.

>> BODY TEXT
Be sure to include all your best keywords here, near the top of the page.
Try to put some keywords in heading tags (H1,H2,etc.) too for added power.
Some search engines are now ranking sites with invisible text (text the same
colour of your page which is not seen by the surfer) very badly but
Altavista seems to do the opposite. Only use invisible text if you are
trying to achieve a better ranking with Altavista.

>> ALT TAGS
Alt tags are descriptions of images on your site which appear while the
image is loading. Most search engines index alt tags so try to include some
keywords in them. Just a few words should do, otherwise the whole page will
look amateur and badly put together until it is fully loaded. 1 pixel by 1
pixel images are great because they load up instantly and the alt text is
not seen by the viewer.

>> LINKS
The more sites that link to you, the better ranking your site will have.
It's as simple as that! Also, sites with their own domain name like .com or
.net help even more! Try to get lots of sites to link to you on their main
page. Most webmasters will be only glad to link to you, if you link to them
in return.

>> BANNER ADS
Try to keep banner ads near the bottom of the page if you can or else the
search engine might not even index your page, instead indexing the URL the
banner points to. This has been known to happen with major search engines so
keep it low!

>> FRAMES
If there's one thing that will get you a search engine ranking worse than
Frames-R-Us (Never heard of them? Thought so.) it's including frames in your
site. Worse still, the Internet Standards Authority have said that frames
are no longer in the set of Internet Standards! If you've just hired a
professional website designer for $50 an hour and he's designed your site in
frames, there's not much you can do but complain.

Source: http://www.contentmart.com/

Great tutorial! I didn't know about the Meta and Alt tags but I knew all the rest... :O

Meta and alt tags ar the most important elements when talking for site search engine optimisation. Your site can't acheave the top place on top search engines without metatag and alt tag.

Thank you for the info! I did not know that!

Thanks for the informations. But I still think page rank also plays a big role in making the top positions on all search engine.

Get more back links to get high page ranks.

lol I know about the metas but the rest i don't, though when i was a beginner i always thought the only way Search Engine used was to search the whole page for words, never thought if that.
In the old days you know it was all manual by adding websites untill google came

lol I know about the metas but the rest i don't, though when i was a beginner i always thought the only way Search Engine used was to search the whole page for words, never thought if that.
In the old days you know it was all manual by adding websites untill google came

Just go through the cached pages..

Search engines are searching through those cached pages.

I know.. cached pages is another great find.. another than that.. it always comes in handy when a website is down, or disallowed

one other thing worth mentioning, when using h tags < h1 > ect only use them for keywords...otherwise just use bold...this will also help out some

on every image on your site every link on your site be sure to use those alt and title tags....

my foamy site went from like page 10 of google to the 10th listing in less then a week just by doing this..I then sat at #7 for a long time and now i'm at #6...before long I'll hopefully at least be #2, can't get #1 obviously as that's the creator of Foamy's spot

one other thing worth mentioning, when using h tags < h1 > ect only use them for keywords...otherwise just use bold...this will also help out some

on every image on your site every link on your site be sure to use those alt and title tags....

my foamy site went from like page 10 of google to the 10th listing in less then a week just by doing this..I then sat at #7 for a long time and now i'm at #6...before long I'll hopefully at least be #2, can't get #1 obviously as that's the creator of Foamy's spot

Yes... Those are good tips..

Header tags plays a good role on search result positioning...

For which keyword, your site ranks 6th position?

actually i'm #6 for both Foamy The Squirrel and Foamy
not sure about other ones, i'll have to look into that

i didnt get how exactly do i use header tags for keywords?

Little tutorial for putting h1 tags within your paragraph Texts

Then just use the h1 tag between your promotional keywords. An example is discribed on here:

You can also apply the same technique for other heading tags like h2, h3, h4, ect...

Hope that this tutorial helps...

yes it does help.. thanks man gr8

hadn't thought about doing that thanks I just tend to use H tags as title tags but made sure to use keywords...
for instance I had <h1>Episodes</h1> simply by changing this to <h1>Foamy The Squirrel Episodes</h1> it helped a lot with my keywords and getting higher up on the search engines....
but i may take your advice and try that as well...is there any depressiation in using say like <h4> or <h5>? or does the number not really matter so much?

The number really matter.

As the number suggested, the high prioritized heading tag is H1. Then the priority decreased to H6 tags. (Normally web pages using 6 tags for representing headings.)

The actual meaning of heading tags is like this:

I hope that you understand the importance of numbering from the example.

This really is an interesting tutorial and it's also very usefull for myBB users, such as myself, that have installed the meta tag mod for myBB.
Now I know what settings I should use for it so it would work even better.

with little experience you should be able to edit the code, specially that you will find it normal HTML for the styles, you can do that

very very good information for newbies like me in web developing.
It looks very interesting and the most important point is what exactly the people is trying to put as text to search in search engines.
Is it possible to mode the forum scripts and add h1,h2 tags,i tried to do but not working

Which forum you are working. I can help you if you are working with MyBB.

I don't know too much about the other forum scripts.