So your company has a website - an important step to validate your company, boost its visibility and increase its sales. Now how do you get it to show up on Google and the other search engines like Yahoo and MSN? A high search engine ranking for your website is essential. At least 85% of people looking for goods and services on the internet find them through search engines.

Some search engine submissions are free and some pay for this benefit but before I get into it I would like to place a little word of warning. There will be some places that will offer to submit your website to hundreds or even thousands of search engines for free. Avoid these at all costs! I know I know they are tempting, thoughts stray to "woohoooo now I can do it in one push of the button".

... and why I 'm dying to get finally in the Google SERP

There are millions of web sites trying to get listed inthe top 20 spots of the major search engines. Thatamounts to a lot of competition! I say if you can'tget listed at the top, indirectly get to the top. How do you do this? Look up the top 20 web siteson the major search engines under the keywords andphrases people would find your web site. The keywould be to then advertise on those web sites.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important to websites. If you rank high in search engines, your website are shown to a huge number of target users. To start with, you have to pick a list of target keywords. Try the overtune keyword toolprovided by www.SEOChat.com Dont try to crack into competition of over 1million results. Narrow down your target keyword which yields a relatively high number of searches, and relatively low number of search results.

So you built a website, you have a product, but it's not selling. What's your sales message? Does your site scream out to potential customers "BUY ME!!" or does it simply say "Hi, we're here, we have a product, if you want one...well you could buy it here...or go...YUCK! Let's look at a simple way of changing that perspective of using a call to action.

In a fluke, I was able to notice something about the way Google indexes content from web directories. Excluding your template, the most important line of code is the first title you add to your main body. Search through Google and see for yourself!

This is my question... I spend a fortune on SEO and now I am #1. If there are 976,840 businesses like mine on the internet, why is that I am # 1?

In order to get a top 10 google ranking it is imperative to not only know how to use the resources that are available to us, but to also know what to do with them. The key is always to find out what tools are the ones to use. In my experience, there are two tools I use almost daily to help my sites achieve top 10 rankings.