Empower Yourself - Learn Three Easy Steps to Achieve First Page Ranking

Do you ever wonder how your competitors get listed on the first page of the search results when you enter your keyword phrase in the search engine. Well, if this question has ever tormented you and you would like to achieve first page ranking, then you may have just found your answer. This article gives three easy steps that will assist you in accomplishing your goal of achieving first page ranking for your keyword phrase.

Step I - Identify a Niche (Target Market)

Content is King. You have to provide valuable beneficial content something that is useful to your readers and solve their problem. Once you have identified your area of interest (niche). Put it in the following Keyword Research Tools:

Google Adwords takes data from Google search engine accurate but not current.
Wordtracker takes Yahoo metacrawler not as accurate but current information.
SEO Tool Book metacrawler not as accurate but current information.

Once you get your list of niche terms. Put those terms in the keyword research tool and you will receive a list of keyword phrases. Identify the Long Tail Keyword (LTK) you are interested in. The LTK is a phrase with three or more keywords. Also take notice of the number of people searching for the LTK daily and monthly. Select a LTK that has at least 300 monthly searches, this should be a lucrative market.
Additionally, note the cost per click (CPC).

Step II - Determine if the Keyword phrase is Competitive (who else is using it)

Put the LTK in one of the search engines (Google is the most popular Search Engine):

Ask
Bing
Googler
Yahoo

Research to ensure you can achieve Page Rank 1 (PR!) if the search result is around 300,000 competing sites you should be able to dominate that LTK. Put quotation marks around your LTK, so you will receive the actual results and not sites using related terms or synonym of the LTK. This means you will have around 300,000 others site owners competing for PR1 for that LTK. If there are links where the advertiser paid (sponsored links) on the page and you have around 300,000 search volume, then you most likely have a good and lucrative LTK.

Step III - Determine the number backlinks of the Sites on PR1

Backlinks are other sites that place your link on their site because of your excellent content. They lead back to your site. They usually use anchor text which are descriptive words describing your site, this is excellent for search engine optimization. A site with a large number of backlinks could possibly mean it is an important site and could be an authority site. Backlinks are also called incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links. Another method to use to determine whether you can receive PR1 for that LTK is to determine the number of backlinks the sites on the first page have. If one or more of those sites PR1 have less than 30 backlinks you might be able to compete for their position. Other things to look for on your competitor site are the relevance of the content; is it an authority site; and Alexa rating, jus to name a few. .

The following are some things you can do to receive backlinks: write and submit articles to article submission directories, posting on forums, comment on blogs with a related topic and do follow. Additionally, another action you can take to receive backlinks is put a Google Alert on your LTK. Google will email you with a list of blogs with your LTK and you can make comments on these blogs put your name and link in the signature area. Ensure your comment add value to the subject matter. This is a sure fire way to get your link on related sites. Further you may want to check the sites PR1 ensure it is ranked higher than yours. Make it your goal to post ten comments a day on related sites and you should see an increase in traffic because you will have a better PR.

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