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Want High Google Rankings? Build it for Humans!

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If you want your website to receive lots of free search engine traffic from Google, or any other search engine for that mater, build it as though it was mean for human beings to read. Seriously. The search engines are way too smart for us to waste our time trying to outfox them. Instead, give them what they want.

If people would put as much effort into building a user friendly site with value for its visitors as they do in trying to outfox the engines, they would have what they are seeking…plenty of free traffic. I think part of the problem is that so many people are thinking short term. Folks, it takes time to build organic search engine derived traffic. But then you end up with a nice long-term income.

There are of course a variety of factors that determine how much organic traffic you can obtain that are out of your control. For instance, if you choose a topic that very few people are interested in, it will be very difficult to get large numbers of targeted traffic. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and it may well be a good thing. I have a website about one of my inventions, a selective asparagus harvester. I think that in the United States there are only a few hundred asparagus growers, and hence I expect very few visitors to the site. If only one visitor buys one machine it will be a 0,000 plus sale, and well worth the effort of putting up the site.

What I consider to be one of the most important rules for getting great rankings in the search engine results is that you write for a human, and for the most part, an English speaking human with good grammar and use a spell checker. This doesn’t apply if you are a non-English speaking site, obviously.

The reason should be obvious, if word processing programs can not only check spelling, but check grammar as well. If I was a search engine and I was comparing sites to see who to put on the first page of results, and one site had poor grammar, then that would be an obvious point to consider. Spammy sites are far more likely to have poor grammar and bad spelling than legitimate sites.

A word about keywords; do your research and use one of the online keyword research tools. A common problem with websites is poor keyword research. If people do not search for the keywords then even though you are #1, you still don’t get any traffic. There is no substitute for keyword tools and good research.

Optimize each page of material for one or two keyword phrases. Do not attempt to optimize for single word keywords unless there are some very unusual circumstances. It is far easier to capture multiple word phrases. Where ever you put your keyword phrases, make it sound natural. Don’t use them too often. The engines are watching. Work them into your title tag. If your title does not mention you keywords, then the search engines give it far far less importance. It doesn’t hurt to have some keyword phrases in your image alt tags, and in your description tag.

Use a simple clean layout. In recent patent documents Google brings up the idea of web page clutter being a factor in ranking of web pages. If you make the site design simple and pleasing to the eye, you will have a better chance of a good ranking than if your design is sloppy and cluttered.

Content is of course, as always, king. Great content is an absolute requirement. The better your content the more visitors you will get. Part of great content is lots of it. I like to find the best keywords I can, then put up at least 10 pages of information relating to each set of keywords. By having your keyword phrases in a number of different settings you have a much greater chance of visitors picking your site to visit when they search for those keyword phrases. If your content is poor or your usability is not good, your visitors will “bounce off” of your site and the search engines will notice. If your visitors stay for long periods the engines notice that too.

Another thing that great content will attract is links. Lots of inbound links can do wonders for your ranking. If you have really valuable content the links will find you. It does take time, but it does happen. You can actively seek out and trade links with other appropriate sites. Write some articles and submit them to the article marketing sites. They allow you to include links to your site. You not only pickup links, but the articles will drive traffic to your site too.

Once you have it all put together, then you have to wait. It just takes loads of time to gain Google’s trust. Often I begin getting some search engine traffic within a few weeks of getting a new site up, but then a month or two later my traffic drops to zero. Then after months and months of little or no traffic I begin to get s trickle of traffic and it slowly grows till about two years after publishing it. If it isn’t doing well after two years then you best start changing things and doing testing to see what’s wrong.

Keep improving your site keeping in mind that it is for humans, not search engines. The search engines are getting better and better and finding high quality human friendly and useful sites, so by creating just that type of site, you assure your website’s future.

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