Getting your website on to the first page of Google search results, is a difficult task. Thankfully, Google provides tools and guidance to improve your chances of SERP success. Utilized properly, the dependable resources found within your Google account, will provide valuable information; that saves time, money and frustration.
As you can imagine, your first step will be to create a Google Account. This is accomplished by visiting the Google homepage, and selecting "Sign in"; located in the top right-hand corner of the webpage. Create and verify your account. Once your account is established, you will have access to some of the most powerful tools; available for webmasters and website owners.
A Google Profile is an excellent way to introduce yourself to Google. Take some time to accurately complete the Profile information, that Google has requested (Google Account Settings --> Profile). Be certain to make consistent use of your established keywords and optimized text. Moreover, your Google profile gives you an opportunity to add your website link, and create powerful inbound links your Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or YouTube accounts. Google Webmaster Tools, allows you submit your Sitemap to Google; telling them important details about your webpages. This may include: which ones are the most valuable, and how often they change. Furthermore, webmasters can also let Google know how they would like the URLs indexed; to appear. As you know, this important detail must remain consistent; throughout your linking and optimization campaign. Taking much of the guesswork out of website analysis, Google Webmaster Tools provides webmasters/website owners with detailed reports; about the visibility of their webpages in the Google index. Detailed reports indicate how Google crawls and indexes your website/webpages; and relays specific problems the search engine is having accessing it. Furthermore, Google provides a dependable overview of your website; and offers solutions for problems it discovers. Perhaps most importantly though, Google will help you determine your link and query traffic, by providing comprehensive data about internal and external links; to your website. Google provides answers to which search words, terms and phrases are driving traffic to your website, and displays exactly how users are arriving there. Google Analytics is a free, enterprise-class web analytic solution offered by Google. This remarkable software, provides detailed insight into your website traffic and overall marketing effectiveness. Google Analytics can be used to track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks and email marketing. As such, the product is aimed primarily at marketers; as opposed to webmasters and technologists.
Taking the time to explore the benefits of the many tools Google freely provides, will greatly increase your chances of search engine optimization success. Google makes it difficult to appear on page one, but not impossible. I recommend that you follow the guidelines they set out, and pay close attention to what they are telling you; in detailed reports and other collected data. If you can consistently give Google what they want, they will happily give you what you want.
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