If you own and operate a website then you know that traffic and page ranking is extremely critical. Today we are going to discuss a few SEO tricks that you may want to take note of. And if you like this information I encourage you to link it to your website and share it with your readers. Now I know there are many different things you can do to help your website when it comes to SEO, but today we are going to go over a few of the basics that can help. Most of this information can be found on Google within their guide to improving page ranking.

1.       Include useful, high quality information on your website.

What I mean by this is to share with your reader’s useful content that your readers will want to share with their friends and others on the World Wide Web.

2.       Make sure you are submitting your website.

By submitting your content and websites to directories, search engines and reference sites you will not only get your URL (website address) on other website. You will gain popularity and other websites will promote your website and which will create more traffic to your website.

3.       Tell everyone you know and meet about your website.

Make sure you are talking about your website to everyone you meet. They will get curious and checkout your website. This will increases traffic and get your content out there to the public. If your content is good they will return and you will get free advertising when they tell their friends and family. You can also create the following to share by email, fax or even postal mail.

    • Business Card
    • Letterhead
    • Newsletters
    • Brochures
    • Press Releases
    • Fax cover sheets
    • Email signatures

4.       Turn on your RSS feed.

Make sure you have your RSS feed turned on and you are share eye catching content and headlines to places like Technorati, BlogSearch and Ask.com Bloglines.

5.       Linking from other websites.

When placing links from other websites on your website make sure they are relevant high quality links. Also make sure the links on your website are active and working. Links that are not active, relevant or working will be downgraded by Google and other search engines when calculating your websites page rank. Take the time to check out a website before you place the link on your website.

6.       Free information or items.

People love to get free things. It does not have to be something that cost you money. It could be as small as a little information that you could share with others that will help them in their lives or they just feel like you gave them something without asking for anything in return.

7.       Telling the press could help your website.

You might take the time to share your website to your local newspaper, television stations or magazine. This could get more publicity and may end up going national if your content is good and helpful.

8.       Make sure your website is keep up and running.

By keeping your website up and running you will not send error messages to all the search engines around the world. This also means you will not miss any visitors that may search or stop by your website for a visit.

9.       Do not try to trick your visitors.

People do not like to be tricked or lied to. Honesty is always the best policy to keep your visitors coming back for more.

10.   Check your websites material, links and design often.

By checking your website often you will be able to make sure your website does not take too long to open. Make sure the links on your website are functioning and relevant. This will allow your CTR (Click Through Rate) to increase and more search engines will then increase your page ranking within their websites.

I hope this information will give you a little help with your SEO and website ranking. I look forward to sharing more with you in the future and hope you will stop back often to see what I have to share with you at NewHotTopics.com.