7 Powerful SEO Steps To Higher Search Engine Rankings

So you found yourself with a few minutes on your hands to optimize your site. Now, I honestly believe there are only two MAIN things which support the Search Engine Optimization process and reward your website with high rankings you desire. Put simply, these two things are Keyword Rich Content and Targeted Back Links (with proper anchor text). You have to do both in order to earn your way to the top.

Here are 7 powerful steps you can use to optimize your site (SEO) in order to reach (earn) high search engine rankings:

Step 1: Determine Highly Searched Keywords
Determine highly searched and targeted keywords/keyword phrases related to your site and put them into a list. Here are the free tools to use:
Google External Keyword Tool
Yahoo Keyword Inventory Tool
Wordtracker

Step 2: Register Keyword Rich Domain Names
While there have been contrasting arguments about whether having keywords in your domain helps, I strongly feel it does. The same goes for dashes between words in the domain. As long as you have a domain name that represents what you do, even partially, it will work.

Step 3: Use Your Targeted Keywords In Your Copy
Use the list of keywords in step 1 within your website copy, especially in the title, headline and first paragraph. The important thing is to make them flow smoothly within the context of the copy so prospects will not find it weird.

Step 4: Insert Keyword Rich Relevant Content
Next, build up your site’s content with relevant topics containing your keywords.

Step 5: Aggressively Acquire Targeted Back Links
This is the second most important (some say it’s the first) factor to note after targeted and relevant content. If you are not sure where to start there, I suggest you go here: 131 Legitimate Link Building Strategies

Step 6: Hand Submit Your Site To The Top Directories and Search Engines
There’s no point in using those ‘submit to millions’ services as only a few search engines really matter. Using those automatic services may actually cause your site to be penalized by these major engines. Do you really need a list of search engines to submit to? I suggest you start by Google Add URL page. Please note that as soon as you have a few links pointing to your site, Google will find your site anyway, so there is no point submitting it. This may speed up the indexing process though.

Step 7: Tune Your Site For Maximum Optimization
The final step would be to constantly monitor your traffic and analyze your website traffic against rankings. This assumes you have Google Analytics in place. If you don’t, you should. It is free. This is so you can review and tweak for further improvement in your rankings.  I found a great free tool to get this done and monitor your rankings: try Free Ranking Monitor For Google

Let me know if this process works for you. These are the same steps if you want to Optimize your blog and corresponding blog posts for search engines. 

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1. The Keyword Discovery search term suggestion tool offers the most current and reliable keyword data with historical trends. This is the tool that is used by industry experts and covers many regional keyword databases such as UK, French, Dutch, German, Spanish etc… There is a free trial and a paid option that provides access to more features.

   Posted by nicole on 10/08 at 08:27 PM

2. After you contact me those things are good things to do..

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   Posted by Christopher Lee Hardin on 02/23 at 07:38 AM

3. The process involves a search engine spider downloading a page and storing it on the search engine’s own server, where a second program, known as an indexer, extracts various information about the page, such as the words it contains and where these are located, as well as any weight for specific words and all links the page contains, which are then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date.

   Posted by professional search engine optimization on 03/09 at 05:47 AM

4. I recommend seobook’s keyword research tool, the overture inventory tool doesn’t seem to work anymore. Discontinued?

   Posted by Backlink checker on 03/12 at 11:17 AM

5. Thanks for explaining steps to higher search engine rankings and for suggesting K.W research tool.

   Posted by SEO Company India on 07/24 at 04:23 AM

6. That’s a marvelous SEO steps and that’s what I’ve been doing these whole years. “Content is king” has also been my motto in doing SEO for my sites and my clients’ sites. I guess I will direct people to your site to read more about this article.

   Posted by Internet Marketing Tools on 10/20 at 10:25 PM

7. Read the 131 legitimate link building strategy. it really help me back then. It’s really good article for newbie on SEO.

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   Posted by Women's Clothing on 11/01 at 09:56 PM

9. I found the tool really helpful for me, especially the wordtracker that help me find the right and most suitable keyword/keywords phrase for my site. I never know that my work will be much easier before found this tool. Thanks in advance.

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10. Google external keyword tool is the tool I used to help me doing keywords research. It very useful and handy. However, the other tools, I ever use too, until now sometimes I combine with Wordtracker. 

    Posted by Shandra on 11/25 at 05:26 PM

11. I strongly suggest Google External Keyword Tool it helped me a lot..It’s a good tool.

    Posted by Seo Consultant on 02/09 at 07:47 AM

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