There are a few basic tips that all website owners should know in order to rank well in search engines. Rank Cheap has compiled a list of some of the most important features to high placement in search engines. Below is a graph detailing the views of some of the most well respected search engine optimizers in the world.
As you can see from the distribution, there are a few key factors to dominating your competiton in the search engines.
- Trust/authority of your website
- Link popularity of the specific page
- Anchor text linking to the page
- On-page keyword usage
- Various other data
A few various sidepoints that are also important are title tag of your webpage. If you have the right keywords in the title of your page, you will rank much better than generic and non-specific keywords. Also, if you haven’t yet choosen a domain name, you will want to either establish a strong brand or a domain name with keywords very specific to your topic. Make sure to use H1, H2, H3 tags to distinguish the most important headings and topics on your webpage.
