Nice Website, Shame No-One Can Find It!
Author: Carolyn Clayton

Have you paid lots of money for a cool website design? Is your
site looking all flashy and professional? Has it got cool a
cool flash intro with lots of images? Have you spent lots of
money developing a new site only to realise that you're not
getting any extra hits or business. It is hardly surprising
with the amount of websites on the internet; this number could
be in the region of 300 billion. So it is hardly surprising
when you do a search on Google for something and you get
thousands of results and you spend ages looking through the
sites.

So how can I get more visitors by coming up on the first page
on Google?

Well for a start this takes time which is why some businesses
pay for an SEO to do the work for you but it can be done
yourself. There are a few points to remember and you can't
really go wrong. The first thing to remember is that Google
searches for the key words in the body of the text, so you you
want people to find a 'baby's travel cot' your site better have
those words written clearly on the home page a few times and
also in the title. Also people tend to like to have flashy
button effects but Google doe's not recognise them so even if
you have used the keys words in the flash, Google won't find
them.  Links to the other pages in your site needs to be
straight forward text written hyperlinks.

As for flash intro's, big mistake, it may look nice but it does
absolutely nothing to help your site, in fact the flash is not
recognised by the search engines at all. Search engines like
clear hyperlinks using the keywords. Unique relevant text is
also the key to scoring high.

Heard of page ranking? What is it? Well basically PageRank is a
"vote", by all the other pages on the Web. So if your site's
address or hyperlink is on another site which has a good
authority (lots of important in links from good rated sites)
then this gives weight to your site. Adding your site to many
different sites is very important to improve PageRank.

Writing articles like this is good, and submitting them to
relevant categories in article directories like
articlealley.com helps give a lot of weight as long as the
article sites are ranked high themselves. Google have a toolbar
which shows the ranking of each page, if the rank is high then
it would be useful to have a link to your site on there. But
any sites that take you link will help.

Once your site comes up on the first page of Google you will be
seen by thousands of visitors and can enjoy all the extra
possible business. So what are you waiting for, get writing and
publishing, and don't forget to put a link to your site at the
bottom of the article or this will be a totally waste of time.


About The Author: Carolyn is the webmaster for Search Solutions
one of the UK's most successful http://www.searchsolutionsuk.com
firm. This article is free to republish provided this resource
box remains intact.