How do I get my website on the top of a key word search without paying for a sponsored ad?
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search engines are like fishing nets. you can't always guarantee your site will show up at the top, just like you can't guarantee what kind of fish you'll get. spiderbots are constantly rescanning the web, postings are constantly appearing and disappearing, and these all affect your ranking.\n\nyour competitor may have had their domain registered longer, may have more things being written about them on the web, or may have more sites linking to theirs. \n\nthe other thing is there's often a substantial time delay in putting a site up (or modifying/optimizing it for search) and seeing a change in the results. \n\nthe only deals i've ever heard of that weren't scams were SPONSORED LINKS. i wouldn't trust anyone that said they had some "inside edge"... the big engines are public companies whose stock prices would be hurt if they did illicit side deals. \n\nmy recommendations: keep at it, make sure your content is easily searchable (in other words, more text than graphic or flash), make sure you follow the engines' guidelines for submission to a T, and see if you can get other sites (blogs, epinions, etc.) to have links back to your URL. generally speaking, the more people hosting links to your site, the higher your ranking will be.\n\nhope this helps.
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Either advertise locally or pay yahoo. With yahoo you fix a price with them, this is a price that you pay to them each time someone clicks your site (CTR) click through rate  (PPC) pay per click. Not when they buy from you,its when they click your page, so it could be a lot of money.The higher the price per click that you agree, the nearer the top of the search page you will go.
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Here are a few tips to get you started to doing it for free.\n\nPublish quality content, regularly. No garbage, personal nonsense, ramblings or rants.\n\nDon't think you'll get rich with stupid pages full of ads at the top, left, right, bottom like yours.\n\nUse proper grammar and punctuation. Don't overload your page with your keywords.\n\nDon't host on a free hosting site. \n\nIf you are serious, Invest in a real, relevant domain name.\n\nPick a topic you are knowledgeable about and stick to that. That way everything in your site is relevant to the topic and keywords associated with that topic. People will respect you if you produce good content and they will become loyal readers.\n\nRead everything you can about Search Engine Optimization.\n\nGood luck!
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That's a pretty broad question and hard to answer without details, but I'll try.\n\nOne of the first steps is SEO (search engine optimization). There are tons of SEO companies out there. www.stepforth.com provides this service for my website.\n\nThe quality of your website is useless unless people can find it at the moment they want to. Pay per click advertising is the quickest way to get on the search engines. Again, StepForth provides these services for me. \n\nYou should also consider reciprocal linking. A company called www.domaindrivers.com is doing this for my website.
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if your site is like about cars, then you have to mention the word car at least 50 times because when your site gets spidered by search engines that will show up higher ranking.\n\nBut that doesn't always work anymore.\nTry joining  DMOZ.org and becoming an editor for the category your interested in.\n\nThat way you can see how the sites are ranked.\n\nAlso put a counter on your site that shows which search engines are sending traffic your way. Then you can concentrate on improving the searches.\n\nstef
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The first step is to submit your site in the search engines. But that will not make your site appear high in the search terms you want because search engines look for several factors in giving top rankings to sites.\n\nSearch engines look at the following factors in ranking websites, though in varying degrees of importance:\n\n- Age of the Content \n- Keyword density \n- How it fares in the results \n- Site structure \n- Backlinks\n\nIf you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm \n\nWebmasterWorld.com http://www.webmasterworld.com has different sections that cover various aspects of search engine optimization, and each section is participated in by respected webmasters and even search engine employees (e.g. there's a GoogleGuy that responds to Google topics)\n\nOther resources that can help you get top ranking in the search engines are:\n\nGoogle Press Releases http://googlepress.blogspot.com/ \nMatt Cutts Blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/  (Matt is a Google software engineer)\nDigitalpoint Yahoo Forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6\nSearchEngineWatch's MSN Forums http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm\nTying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/seo.htm\n\nAs for tools to help you get top rankings in the search engine, here are some of the best in the field today\n\nTotal Optimizer Pro http://www.totaloptimizer.com/\nKeyword density tool http://googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php\nGoogle Sitemaps (to help Google index your pages faster) https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en
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Hi Stephen,\n\nWhen you publish your site with Yahoo!, we automatically submit your site to Yahoo! Search, but unfortunately this doesn't always mean that your site will beat out other sites in the search results -- there's a lot of competition out there, and many sites jockeying for the same top spots.\n\nThere are several things you can do to make your site easier to find, from adding keywords to your pages and sending out email newsletters to signing up for a "pay-for-placement" service like Yahoo! Sponsored Search, which is aimed at small businesses and can be very affordable. Visit the Promote tab of your Web Hosting Control Panel for a look at some available services, or check out our help center for more ideas!\n\nPromotion tools: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/webhosting/promote/ \nSearch engine overview: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbiz/searchengine/\n\nGood luck!\n\nJen\nYahoo! Web Hosting team
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You're not going to have a successful site based on free hosting.\n\nThat said, the key to listing well with search engines is twofold: Content in context and links in to content.\n\nWhat that means is:\n\n1. You need lots of copy on your site that mentions the terms you expect people to use when trying to find your site. For example, if you have a site about deep sea fishing, it's not enough to simply state "deep sea fishing" on your site; you want lots of articles abut that subject, including articles that talk about how, where and what kinds of fish.\n\nContent in context -- lots of copy about the search terms you want to list with -- gets you listed in the search engines.\n\n2. You need other Web sites to link to your CONTENT, not your home page. Simple link exchanges don't work. You don't want people linking to your home page, you want them linking to specific pages on your site.\n\nYou want the content on the page of their site that links to your content to be similar to the content they are linking on your site. You also want to get as many links in from popular sites as possible. The better someone else ranks with a search engine, the more you want them to link in to you.\n\nLinks in determine how high you rank on a search engine.
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pay for sponsored link, you'll be right at the top.
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There is a whole cottage industry to "get you to be the first in a search engine"... It is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Search Engine Marketing (SEM).\n\n- Do not under any circumstances hire a company that guarantees the first position.  Such claims are certainly will get you banned from the largest and most important search engines.\n\n- PPC or pay per click programs may drive traffic to your site, but will not "raise" your site within search engine listing.\n\n- Surprisingly studies have shown that the first position is often ignored!  If you get on the top of the first page, "above the fold"( you show up without having to scroll down), you are gold!\n\nSearch engine positioning depends very much on the search engine, and what type of algorythm they use to rank web sites.\n\nThe primary factors in most engines are content and authority.  Content refers to articles and documents which are unique and specially related to the key phrase or word to which you want your site to be on top.  Authority refers to how well your site is linked - that is how many good sites within the same topic, link to you.\n\nYou might want to revisit "why" you want to be high on that search engine list...  To drive traffic? If that is the case, then concentrate on the root, which is getting more traffic to your site and not solely on position in a search engine.  Advertising in that case makes more sense.\n\nThe de facto authority on this information is WebmasterWorld.  This site provides detailed discussions on various search engines and how to promote your site.
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Try placing some specific search engine ads.Google Adwords offers a good program. Come up with a list of keywords for your services, create some good ad text and go. Don't try to compete with the "big boys" on general keywords, be specirfic. "educational summer camps Seattle" is better than "educational summer camps".
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It works, but you need to create a "content rich" site to drive traffic to and then they have to click on the Adsense ads on your site.\n\nChoose keywords that pay the highest cost-per-click.\n\nhttp://adsense.sitesell.com/java.html
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Contact an ad agency to see if they want to advertise with you.  Your site will probably need to have a decent amount of traffic for anyone to accept.  There are two types of ads.  One, you will get paid a preset amount each time an ad loads a specific number of times.  The other, you will get paid a preset amount each time someone clicks on the ad.\n\nI use Google AdSense on my site.  You can customize the size and color of the ad you want, and the content of the ad matches your site content.  http://www.google.com/adsense\n\nTribal Fusion and FastClick are a couple more popular ones.
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I am assuming u mean targeting serious Traffic.\n\nA good way is subscribing with search engines like google.\n\nThey charge you by the word. For Eg: is your site is about cars. You can subscribe with google whereby when anyone searchs for "cars" your site comes up.\n\nThey charge you based on the popularity of the word, the numbers of words you subscribed. The period you want to be subcribed to etc. It is generally cheaper than other means.\n\nAnother way is to have a link on your website to some other popular website. Of if you have an banner made for your site , you can use it to display on some of the smaller online companies (like your local newspaper) who may not charge you as much money.
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Yahoo charges $ to get high positions in their search engine. Follow this link to see ways to get your site listed:\n\nhttp://sbs.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/marketing/
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You can user various online tools to select the relevant keywords for your site, you can try overture keyword suggestion tool or digitalpoint keywords sugesstion tools\nhttp://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion\nhttp://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/