Today there are LOTS of ways of getting to the top of Google’s search results, even apart from pay per click. The good news is… the time-tested and proven Internet Marketing methods (which we use) still work — AND THEY WORK WELL.

Methods like…

* identifying the BEST search terms for your market — the words that your potential customers are typing into Google while hunting for your products or your service
* using these keywords and key phrases in the right places on your website (keyword placement and keyword proximity) and with the right frequency (keyword density though this is less important these days)
* providing sufficient relevant quality content at your website — and also in articles that publicize your site
* using an optimized internal linking structure between the pages of your site so that Google’s “spiders” can quickly discover all the public pages on your site — otherwise they cannot index them in their search database. Spiders are robot computers that constantly traverse the web looking for new content
* title tags, heading tags, alt tags, and meta tags (but don’t worry if you’ve never heard of these)
* optimizing your website to conform to Google’s webmaster guidelines and
* a collection of other on-page and off-page SEO strategies that all help deliver the desired results (that is, your site on the front page of Google) ASAP.

But I’ve left the BIGGEST till last…

* One of the major factors in getting your site onto page 1 is BACKLINKS… the number of sites where articles about your business are published, as well as the quality of those sites which link to your site.
* While Google does not reveal the detailed inner workings of its algorithm, there is no doubt that getting links to your site from other good quality sites that you don’t own (on different IP addresses to yours) is a huge key to getting a top search engine listing.
* I have my own private network of blogs (networkGH) where I can publish one-way links to your site.
* In addition, I’m a member of two other publishing networks (networkBT and networkFT) that most website owners have never heard of. You get the same benefit — non-reciprocal backlinks to your website.
* Altogether these networks provide me with FORMIDABLE PROMOTION POWER to push your site to the front page of Google in a short period of time.

PageOneWithGary.com is about getting your site onto page 1 of Google’s search results as fast as possible, in a completely Google-friendly way — so your prospects in your market CAN FIND YOU.

If you don’t have the time or interest or skills to undertake the many tasks involved in effective online marketing, I can help. Email me.

Let’s work together to get your business onto page 1 of Google for your search terms — and to keep it there.

Gary Harvey,
B.Internet Science & Technology (UOW, 2003),
Sydney,
Australia.

Click here to email Gary about getting your website onto the first page of Google.

PS:

If you’re wondering about YouTube and other internet sites that have been popular recently, let me give you my perspective on these…

1) Video is big and has been big for years. Video was big even before Google paid $1.65 billion to buy YouTube.com in October 2006 but it’s bigger now.

2) Social media is also important these days. Sites like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon and dozens of other social bookmarking sites. Plus there is MySpace and the very popular Facebook. And latest hot thing, Twitter. And many more.

BUT… what happens with these social bookmarking and social networking sites is that, even if you do happen to score an appearance on the front page of Google as a result of success at the social sites, very soon somebody else will knock you off. These sites are all about the LATEST hot topics (think: Google Hot Trends which changes by the hour) whereas what you want as a business owner is an ENDURING web presence.

Not a flash in the pan.

You want to get found this week, next week, next month, next year.

That’s what I’m all about.

– Written by Gary Harvey, http://PageOneWithGary.com