Search Engine Ranking 1 » content http://searchengineranking1.com Get Your Website to Number 1 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:37:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Content is King for Getting Your Website Ranked http://searchengineranking1.com/content-and-getting-ranked http://searchengineranking1.com/content-and-getting-ranked#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:57:46 +0000 Lee Seats http://searchengineranking1.com/?p=24 Before you even think about getting your website ranked you need to have content that is of value to users. Take it from someone who wasted a lot of time and effort trying to get sites ranked and trying to make money from AdSense with junk sites. It does not work. If your site has nothing but duplicate content and republished articles forget it. This may have worked at one time, but the search engines have wised up.

The search engines, especially Google, work very hard to make sure when a user does a search they find something of value that is relevant to their search. Search results are their product and they will do everything they can to provide a quality product. If you provide useful, original content and follow the suggestions in this guide the search engines will reward you with high rankings and the traffic that is the result of those rankings.

This does not mean you have to be an expert and prolific writer. You just need to have something to say that users want to hear. I have many small one to five page sites that rank very well. They have unique information that is of value to the target audience. It is true that you will usually get better rankings and more traffic with bigger sites, but it is OK to start small and build more pages when you start seeing some results.

Golden Take-Away: Try to find a problem that users need a solution to. The greater and more urgent the need the more anxious users will be to read what you write and perhaps buy whatever you are selling. If your content is original and useful the users will be happy, the search engines will be happy, and you will be happy.

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