How to get top 10 rankings in google for your keyword?

I got a question over the email from one of the reader after they saw the post I answered yesterday. How to get Top 10 rankings in google for your keyword? I am going to answer this question in my post. Eventhough I mentioned Google because that is the most popular Search Engine, but this technique will work with other popular seach engines as well such as Yahoo, and MSN.

As a webmaster, each and every single one of us wants our websites to rank high in seach engines to get organic traffic. A traffic that you don’t necessarily pay for which is targetted. But sometimes it becomes a hard task to rank in the top 10 in google and other search engines. While it is a hard task, It is not impossible. With the right techniques used, you can rank in the top 10 before you will know it.

The ranking process will begin at the selection of keywords. Quiet frankly I believe as the generation is getting more internet savvy, it is pointless to target one word keywords. Such as website, or blogs. People know by searching this sort of terms in google they will get tons of results and it is too hard to find what they are looking for.

Take the keyword ‘Blogs’ for example shows 697 million results in google.

Whereas say the user was looking how to set up a blog. They won’t look at the term blogs. They will look up the term “How to set up a blog”. So if you rank high for this term it will be more beneficial for you rather than the term blogs itself. It is good to rank for one word keywords, but in my eyes those are just bragging rights nothing more. So pick your keywords wisely. (Preferably long tail keywords)

Next you would need to have a Search Engine Optimized pages in your website. Meaning you need to have a decent coded design which is seo friendly. Next thing you want to do is make sure that you are using the keywords in the right places. Such as titles of categories (Hint: these are usually h2 tags), For bloggers titles of post (because these are h2 tags). Also you need to use these titles on image alt tags, title tags, in your meta description, meta keywords. Try to use them differently, don’t just copy and paste 3 word keywords in all your image alts. Make it relative.

Which takes me to my next point is that you need to build links to that page of your site. Wait a minute did I just say build links. No I meant build relevant links. Don’t just go out and buy links on any site that is cheap or have high rankings. But buy it from the sites that are on your niche. I have seen from past projects that google tend to weigh the relevant links more than the non-relevant links. Also buying links on just any site can also get you penaltised as google is getting strict on text links.

What could be a better way to get tons of backlinks than having quality unique content on that page. By providing content that attract your audience, you are likely to get backlinks from other sites in your niche. Original content can also get you higher ranking in Seach Engines, so use that. Don’t even think about using duplicate content because it will cause you to be penaltised in google.

Above is a small guide that you can use to rank in the top 10. I am sure you will have no problems if you do the general tips that I listed above. If anyone have any more questions that they want answered feel free to email me using the contact form.