Newbie Search Engine Placement Tips

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Newbie Search Engine
Placement Tips

At times, sharing search engine placement tips is kinda like playing with fire.

Because it's dangerous to make assumptions about what search engines like as the rules are constantly changing.

Still here's 11 tips you can count on for now. They're especially helpful if you are or feel like a newbie.

Search Engine Placement TIP#1: Did you know the actual words in text links back to your site can have a HUGE impact on your ranking for specific keyword phrases? For instance, if sites linking to your cat herder training site use the words "Cat Herder Training" in their link, it's likely your site's ranking for that term will skyrocket.

TIP#2 Google adores links, links, and more links.

That said avoid links from ...

Link Farms
Free For All Pages (FFA)
All Guestbooks
PR 0 Links Pages

Links from these can result in being penalized or worse, banned. So proceed with caution when anyone suggests those as shortcuts to better link popularity. They're not.

TIP#3: Used to be you could use Google's "link" operator to find who's linking to top ranking pages. Here's how.

Do an advanced Google search for "link:www.domain_name.com".

Now that will return SOME pages that link to www.domain_name.com. But it's no longer a great way to find link partners to link to YOUR site.

TIP#4: Stick keywords in your 'Alt' tags.

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