Good information I wanted to share with my fellow bloggers

One of the best ways to get instant traffic to a web site is to pay the search engines to get listed, using “pay per click” advertising.

Of course, the better your pages are, the more likely the search engines will list them for free, and let people click all day without charging you a penny.

Page Rank is this thing from Google , where each page on your site gets a ranking from 0 to 10, and supposedly, the higher the number, the better it is for you and everyone else. Getting a better pagerank usually means you get better search engine results on the search pages, so I am going to show you how to do some things to your pages that will increase your pagerank and give you better results on those search engine results pages (they call them “SERPS” ).

Interested? Lets get into the simple seo stuff you can do to get higher rankings, better Page Rank, and all that stuff.

1. Generate links on other websites pointing to your website, using popular keywords.

Having a lot of other sites pointing to your site is a surefire way to get the attention from the search engines. If those links use words that people search for, you have a shot at getting on the results pages of the search engines.

One way to do this is with article marketing (see my other articles). You simply write a short informative article, include an author box with a hyperlink back to your website, using a keyword you know people search for. Then you submit this article to many article directories.

2. Make sure your keyword is in the title tag.

The title tag is what is at the top of your browser when people visit your page. Your keyword should be there.

3. Start your headline with your keyword.

The headline is the big text on your web page. It is the “H1″ tag, if you look at the code for your page. Your page should have only one big headline, and your keyword should be in it.

4. Make sure other related keywords are on your page.

Putting related words on your web page means it is designed to be read by others, and the search engines love these kinds of pages, and include them in their results pages.

5. Look at the source of your web page, and remove codes.

To look at your page in html mode, open it, and then right click and choose “view source”. What you are looking for is stuff that isn’t readable, like javascript code and “css” descriptions. Move that stuff into other files, and include it from your page. Get the help of a techie if you don’t get this part. Basically, you want Google and the other bots to read writing you can read, and nothing else. If the top of your page is filled with programming junk, you will not get ranked in the search engines.

6. Put the full link to your internal HTML pages.

This means instead of linking to flowers.html, you should link to http://www.yoursite.com/flowers.html. This makes the search engines visit your other pages, and list them in their results.

7. Maintain your site.

By keeping things new on your website, it means you have active dynamic content, which the search engines love. So keep things maintained and updated, and your rankings in the “SERPS” will rise steadily.

Put these tips into action, and watch how it improves your results, but in your listings in the search engines, and in the extra web site traffic it creates. SEO is easy, once you know the simple steps to take – so take a step now.