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“How do I get my website on the first page of Google?” is by far the most common question I hear. It is also completely understandable from a webmaster’s point of view, after all there seems to be little point to seek to optimize a website so that it can appear on a page other than the first page of the Google organic search results page (SERPs). You also understand that the competition for Google’s first page for almost every given search term imaginable is fierce. After all, with the web growing at the rate of 200,000 new websites a day (and you can see here just how fast the web is growing http://webdirectstudio.com/lang-en/company-blog/business-development/215-online-marketing-cannot-succeed-without-social-networking) it becomes next to impossible to be truly original, no matter what you do. This, naturally enough, brings us to the question we started with: “Just how do you get your website to the first page of Google?” Well, bearing in mind that my book is exactly all about that and I’ve done it for HelpMySEO and SEO Help Book despite the site being relatively new and there being millions of established pages competing against it you know that there is hope. There are some techniques which are easy to learn and easy to employ and if you follow them they will give you the result you want (and obviously I am not going to detail them here, that’s why I wrote a book about them) and I have covered how to Get to the Top Page of Google, Yahoo! and BING, here before, but there are also a couple of things which you need to bear in mind and which will help you irrespective of what techniques you use: 1. Originality – however you create content on your website and whatever it is about, if you are serious about getting to Google’s first page you need to make it as original as you possibly can. Google’s algorithm values originality and compares results and their age. A fresh, original, with content which is not quite found anywhere else will go a long way towards giving your site a Google fist page boost. 2. Value – the ‘V’ word in web content is perhaps the one that’s most overused and least understood. Value has to do with the quality of information you give to your visitors and it is a vital aspect of your viral marketing strategy. Give value to your visitors and you are, potentially, recruiting them as viral marketers. 3. Quality – This is a grey area for many webmasters creating content for their website. Just how do you input quality and how is that different from value in your website content? Well, if we take value-laden information as being the kind of information which you can act upon almost immediately and either learn something new or learn how to do something, quality has to be the way you present it and how you make your visitor feel. After all, I could have included these three points in a paragraph as bullet points spending no more than 80 words. Instead I have span them into an article, in a chatty tone of voice in a way which makes the information easier to absorb, easier to understand in terms of its quality (which means the why and how) and easier to apply. So if you are really serious about getting your website to the first page of Google and beating out the competition consider what I have just told you every time you add content to your website. David Amerland is the author of the Search Engine Optimization book: SEO Help: 20 steps to get your website to Google's #1 page published by New Line Publishing and available to buy from Amazon.com and any quality bookshop. The ebook version of the book is available for Amazon Kindle as well as Mobipocket, smartphone and Sony eBook Reader formats and available to purchase from any quality ebook retailer. You can also purchase it directly from this website. He masterminds winning SEO strategies for complex online business and helps the average webmaster get their site to the position it deserves. David has been instrumental in taking websites to the top of Google's first page in a way that has kept them there year after year. If you would like David to work on one of your SEO projects drop us a line with your request.
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