SEO Rankings and Other Google College Degrees I Don’t Have
I started using the web back in 1989. Man I’m getting old. The first website I owned was freestuff.com (wonder what that worth now?) when the 2 yahoos 
listed me I was at the top of about 1000 hits. Wow has this puppy changed and Bill Gates said it wouldn’t amount to much. After all this time spent on the internet all I get is a no paying job called “Where’s Waldo” or SEO as its so affectionately known as. Now we have a 9 million pound gorilla called Google. Google says if you want to get listed have only the best ranked websites link to you and don’t link to anyone who is ranked low. What? And don’t try any tricks. But after that what’s left but tricks. It doesn’t do any good to complain because they’re just a bigger collection of smucks like us, just trying to deal with the sheer volume of information.
So what are we to do? Ignore them. That’s right, ignore them. You can always tell when Google says don’t do something or it will penalize you, that their lying. When they contradict themselves and give no possible way to achieve your goal of increasing your ranking. Go ahead get a link partner how is are you going to get linked to? Do they think some large corporation is just going to link to you out of the kindness of their hearts? Well enough of my belly acing, you get my meaning , let’s list the things we can do.
1. Get Google to add your website. They say it could take several weeks. Laugh! I added Adsense, a sitemap and a robots.txt and they added my website 4 hours later. Google’s Webmaster’s Tools has the robots.txt . I get my sitemaps from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com for free and I update them often.
2. Steal, steal, steal. They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Well when it comes to keywords, flatter your competition. But don’t grab from some website that paid enough for adwords to get to the top. Go to about number 7+ in your search he didn’t pay squat and still got there.
3. Trade those links. Google says “Don’t blah blah blah” you have to start somewhere. So get started. You have to do a lot of dumpster diving before you can get to enjoy a fine meal.
4. The best way to get linked is by submitting qualities articles. What’s a “quality” articles? Articles that tell you something different in a way that leads you to a website without trying to sell you before you get there. Google and webmasters are looking for quality not quantity.
5. Content, content, content. It’s simple, everyone wants to know, are you going to help me or are you just trying to sell me something. If you’re helpful I might buy something from you. Haven’t you had those same thoughts? Go out and grab some quality content for your own site. And don’t forget to let the authors know you are publishing them and ask them to publish your articles.
6. Finally remember it’s about Google, it’s about visitors. If Google won’t help you, help yourself. There are a million websites willing to send you visitors, use them.
7. Be an expert. Every wants to here from an expert. Get yourself published by article directories. But remember be an expert not a pitch man. I can send your articles to webmasters but I can’t make them publish them.
These are just a few of the ways to get traffic, there are many great articles out there take a little time to read them
Gary Mincy
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