{"id":395,"date":"2011-11-03T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madprogrammer76.wordpress.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2011-11-03T17:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T17:47:17","slug":"how-i-achieved-decent-search-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewpallant.ca\/wordpress\/how-i-achieved-decent-search-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Achieved Decent Search Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently showed my hit stats for my website to a friend, which include the GOOGLE and Yahoo queries. I was asked how I achieved my ranking. I typically see a rank between 3 and 20, which I consider respectable. Most of my ranking is under 10, which is really good. \u00a0 I am actually surprised how people find me as it can be a very obscure search.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be better? Probably, but this seems to work for me<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example ( real rankings 11\/03\/2011 ): <\/strong><br \/>\nRanking 22: www.google.co.uk \u2014 c#\/ .net blogs in london + cv<br \/>\nRanking 02: www.google.ca \u2014 software developer london ontario<br \/>\nRanking 05: www.google.com \u2014 how to use equalsignorecase in javascript<br \/>\nRanking 01: wwww.google.lv \u2014 excel interop in web service<br \/>\nRanking 14: www.google.ca \u2014 london ontario computer programmer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is how:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Fresh Content ( Blog, Twitter Feed, Other Dynamic Content )<br \/>\n2. Have description and keyword meta tags relevant to your content on the page ( Each Page should be unique )<br \/>\n3. Put <strong>title<\/strong> attributes on links \/ menu items<br \/>\n4. Put <strong>alt<\/strong> attributes on images describing the image<br \/>\n5. Have unique titles on each page<br \/>\n6. Do not use tables to structure your web page<br \/>\n7. Use <strong>H1<\/strong> and <strong>H2<\/strong> tags for page and paragraph titles<br \/>\n8. Optimize your webpage and images for speed.<br \/>\n9. Have a site map ( link page ) outlining links to your content<br \/>\n10. Use GOOGLE&#8217;s and Yahoo&#8217;s webmaster tools for site maps and analytics<br \/>\n11. Use and understand GOOGLE Analytics tool<br \/>\n12. Have other sites link back to you that our relevant to your site.<br \/>\n13. Use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to promote your fresh content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently showed my hit stats for my website to a friend, which include the GOOGLE and Yahoo queries. I was asked how I achieved my ranking. I typically see a rank between 3 and 20, which I consider respectable. 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