If you have a website its vital to have unique content added daily to help with your rankings as content is king.  The more unique content you have on your website the better results you will get.

A number of ways to help increase your content and to help with new content everyday is to add the following features to your website:

1) add a wordpress blog and write new articles everyday and submit these articles to social bookmark sites.  You can install several plugins that will boost your blog i recommend the following:

• All in one SEO Plugin – install meta tags to all  your pages
• Social bookmark plugin – adds submit buttons to all your articles allowing users to bookmark your articles
• Twitter plugin – automatically submits your articles to twitter
• Analytics plugin – allows you to keep a record of your hits and run reports using Google analytics

2) Adding a forum to your website will increase your number of indexed pages aswell as users will be doing all the work for your chatting about certain topics related to your niche.  Vbulletin is a very good forum as there is a plugin you can install which will pull down threads and posts from Yahoo answers instantly filling up your forum with content

3) Add an articles section allowing users to write articles and submit them to your website, this is a great way to build up your content for free

4) Add a free directory section to  your website allowing users to submit their URLs to your website and you can set it to only allow URLs who have put a backlink to your website.  This will help increase your backlinks and also you content.  A good tip is to make sure all these URLs you have on your website have the “nofollow” tag associated with them

Most people now adays seem to have a wordpress blog and its very important to make sure your blog is well optimized for search engines so people can find your articles easily and to help with your search engine rankings.

If you follow my tips below your blog will be very successful and slowly get more and more visitors over time.

1) Content is king, so its important that you update your blog regulary with unique content not copied anywhere from the internet

2) Set your permanalink settings to the following – %postname% as apposed to the standard settings.  Doing this will show your article title within your URL helping your search rankings

3) Get a good theme for your site that is relevant to your users and eye catching

4) Submit your RSS feed to RSS feed sites to build up your backlinks

5) When writing your articles its important to choose a really good title for all your articles, as the title is what is going to get noticed on search engines

6) For all your articles make sure to add “tags” that are keyword related to that article

7) Add categories that are linked to the main keywords of your websites niche

8.) Install the “all in one SEO Pack” plugin (google it, free download).  This will allow you to add meta tags to your blog and all your articles which helps search engine bots crawl your site easily

9) Add social bookmark buttons to your article pages you can download a plugin for this (google it as they are free).  This will help your readers bookmark your articles and submit them to social sites

10) Make sure your blog has very good site navigation and is easy for users to move around your website.

11) Make sure its easy for users to subscribe to your blog

12) Make sure you spell check your articles for any spelling or grammer mistakes as this may put users off your website

13) Make sure your hosting provider is powerful enough and you have good response times on the loading of your pages

The above should get you off to a good start.  Subscribe to our website for more daily tips on how to succeed on the internet

When your designing your website its very important to make sure your website is optimized for search engines as this is key to making your website a success to ranking on major search engines such as Google.

I’ve build alot of websites and have learnt alot on the way and id like to share my experience with other webmasters starting out on their website so i have put together this article on the steps to achieve a well optimised website.

Step 1

Pick a domain name that is relvant to your niche and have at least 1 keyword that matches your niche.  For example take my domain name for example my niche is “internet marketing” and i have my keyword in my domain name. This helps search engines understand what your domain relates to and will also help with rankings as when a user does a serach for “internet marketing” my domain name matches the users search critiera

Step 2

Setting up your meta tags for your website.  Meta tags are tags that are hiden within your site so when search engine bots crawl your site the first thing they check for are your meta tags.  Meta tags are bits of information that tell search engines about your website, as an example this is what they look like:

<title>enter the title of your website here</title>
<META Name=”keywords” Content=”keyword 1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4,keyword5, etc“>
<META Name=”description” Content=”Write a short paragraph about your website here“>
<META name=”author” content=”Write your name here“>
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”ALL“>
<META NAME=”REVISIT-AFTER” CONTENT=”How often you want search engines to crawl your site, i would say every 1 days if your site is updated daily“>
<meta name=”distribution” content=”global“>
<meta name=”rating” content=”Safe For Kids“/>
<meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow“/>

You must place your meta tags on your home page (index) towards the top of the page so search engines can find it easily

Step 3

When you start adding your pages you should also make sure when you name the pages is to make sure to name your page a keyword that matches the content on that page for example www.domainname.com/keyword.htm.  And also make sure the title of the page has a couple of keywords that match the content of your page.  As when your pages get indexed on search engines, search engines will match your page name and title to a users request which helps with your rankings.

Step 4

When writing your content make sure the content is unique and not copied or duplicated from anywhere on the internet as Google is now starting to penilise websites with duplicate content as they are stamping down on spam.  Also make sure you add some of your keywords within your content that match the title of your page and page name as mentioned in step 3

Step 5

Another good tip is to have H1 titles on all your pages. H1 title headers are a size font within your software.  So for all your pages i recommended having a H1 title towards the top off all your pages.

Step 6

Another good tip is to have your keywords set as anchor links that point to inner pages on your website.  For example on your home page for some of your keywords within your content you can have Anchor links that point to inner pages within your website.  Google likes this as it makes navigation within your website easy for users and for search engine bots.  The code for setting anchor links are as follows:

<a href=http://www.yourdomainname.com/innerpage.htm>Your keyword word anchor link</a>

Step 7

Its very important to have a site map on your website which helps users find pages within your site and also helps search engines that are crawling your site find all your web pages.  If you can put a sitemap on the footer of all pages that is accessable for both reader and search bots.

Step 8

Another good idea is to make sure your website is updated regulary with unique content as search engines pay attention to websites that are updated regulary with unique content.  Make sure that the content is unique and not copied from anywhere else.  A good idea is to add a wordpress blog to your website and add new articles everyday related to your website niche.  Having a blog greatly improves your rankings and you may also get repeat visitors if your articles are very informative.  Or another good feature to add to your website is a forum, as users will add new content for you automatically and brings back repeat visitors.

Step 9

Adding images and video content to your website.  Google likes websites that have media content like images and videos.  Also make sure that you tag your images and videos with your keywords.  For your images use the “alt tag” which tells google that your images are related to your keywords.  Alt tags look like this:

<img src=”imagename.jpg” height=”100″ width=”100″ alt=”keyword here“>

On your embed or uploaded videos Google will pick up on the content around your videos and match that video to any keywords around the video.  If you embed youtube videos, a good idea is to tag your keywords on youtube and write a good informative description on your video and place your URL in the description.

Step 10

Make sure that the navigation around your website is easy for users to find information on your website.  For example having links to inner pages around your website down the left or right hand side, on the top and at the bottom of your website so to make it easy for users to navigate around your website.

Once you have covered the basics above you are now ready to start promoting your website.  Have a read on our website on tips on marketing your website to drive traffic to your website.