Article Directory :: Internet Marketing/Online Business Articles How To Maintain A Top Search Engine Ranking For Your Website Over The Long Term Copyright © 2012 RickyWeber.com Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 13Jan2012 Word count: 493 Viewed: 40 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site Securing a top rank for your website in the search engine results can be a great way to get targeted website traffic over to your site, but even once you have a top rank the trick to long-term success is to maintain your top position in the search engines over time. If you get to the top of the search engine results immediately but lose your top rank in a week because you are not constantly working to maintain it, you will not be able to experience increased traffic to your website over the long term that you would get to experience with a permanent top ranking. One way that you can continue to maintain your top ranking for certain web pages on your site is to optimize a single page for only one single keyword. Instead of trying to use the same page to rank high for ten different search terms at the same time, place your focus for your on-page search engine optimization on just one specific keyword and optimize every part of your web page for this keyword (such as the title, header, and meta tags). This might get a bit complicated for you if you are trying to maintain a top rank for multiple keywords related to your industry that each have a different web page devoted to them, but your long-term success will be greater by using this "one keyword per page" strategy. Another important strategy that you can use to make sure that you are able to retain your top search engine ranking over time is to make sure that you have your website listed in a handful of the top business directories such as the Yahoo business directory. Even though having your website listed in places like this can be expensive, it is essential if you do not want your overall rank in the search engine results to decline. If you are willing to spend the extra money necessary for a premium listing in some of these top directories, you will be able to pick the specific anchor text that you would like to have point to certain deep links on your website, which can help dramatically to maintain your long-term search engine ranking. Probably the most important aspect of maintaining a top search engine ranking over time is the number of incoming links that you have from different websites that are using your desired keyword as the anchor text of the link. It is also important to have a perpetual link building strategy so that you are continuing to increase the number of targeted incoming links. By taking advantage of these strategies you will be able to not only secure a top ranking in the search engines for your desired keyword, but you will also be able maintain that top ranking over the long term. If you want to be profitable on the internet today, you must have your website listed in the search engines. If you are ready to get your website listed go to http://RickyWeber.com/Search-Engines/ to read about an easy-to-use tool called Search Engine Submitter that will submit your website to 500+ search engines. EasyPublish™ this article - publishers click here More articles by Ricky Weber

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