What can improve search engine standing?

[mko]

What is the most likely to improve search engine standing?

Keywords?
Content?
H1?
H2?
meta?
Title?
Description?
Description relevancy to page?
Large number of relevant keyword occurences inside content?

[vinny388]

In my opinion...all of them help towards the overall success of a site.

I personally see better results with good body content (a good mix of information with main key phrases appearing appearing at a ratio of about 2-10%, depending on the content).

The page title is without doubt the most important part of the 'off the page' content. This is what the search engines display when you do a search, so get those keywords in there (dont over stuff tho).

The Keyword meta-tag helps a little bit, tho most of the main search engines pay little attention to it. But try to only optyimise for between 1 and 3 keywords/phrases per page. Too many and you will dilute their importance.

[Hagens]

I'm really new to this SEO thing, but so far, i've come across pages that have had little to do with the search term I put in, but they get listed really high. The one thing that stood out was the overall content on the page... which was massive.

Now, thats not to say it will work, but Google is known for favoring pages with a lot of content.

On the other hand, I did come accross one page once that had a PR of 3, and it had one very large image, and three links... that went to another single page, that also had one large image (total crap for content). I think the page wasn't intended to be that way, but the person just sucked at making pages. So in this case, I think it had something to do with 'time on the web', 'title', 'description', and whoever else linked to him... which I don't think was a whole lot.

Ranking high is a total crap shoot, and greatly depends on your competition. For instance... currently I have two sites to work on. One site has very little competition, and the other is retail (very high comp). Gee... take a guess at which one ranks 50th on google.

Take all of those items seriously, build heavy content (not repetitive), and get links... you should then be alright.

Whats your site by the way?

[coop99]

They say "content is KING, building links is QUEEN"

I good balance of all those things, PLUS a new page of content per day and some quality inbound links will usually get a site ranking high.

[etech-racheal]

I think content & keywords are important in search engine ranking. Content is very important. If your content is fresh & unique then it helps in high ranking.

[wmseo2]

more links...

[weblaunchphxx]

Good content,more backlinks from related site are very important to get good standing in search engine.

[guinanie]

Relevant keywords with high density, description and title , related links with high traffic , keyword in domain name and unique content can help improve search engine standing?

[aira]

What is the most likely to improve search engine standing?

Keywords?
Content?
H1?
H2?
meta?
Title?
Description?
Description relevancy to page?
Large number of relevant keyword occurences inside content?

All of these are part of the on-page optimization. If you really want to improve your rankings, you have to balance it with off-page optimization (link building is also an important factor)..

[phoebe]

What is the most likely to improve search engine standing?

Keywords?
Content?
H1?
H2?
meta?
Title?
Description?
Description relevancy to page?
Large number of relevant keyword occurences inside content?

All of these are part of the on-page optimization. If you really want to improve your rankings, you have to balance it with off-page optimization (link building is also an important factor)..

Absolutely agree with aira. You must focus on both On Page and Off page optimization in order to improve your site's standing in every search engine...

[dee_el07]

All of the above mentioned are important and part in doing SEO.. The thing here now is on how will you going to do in the right way.. ? There are still some good tricks in doing those things.. and i guess, working hard for it is just one major thing in doing off page optimization for you to get your desired SERP's rankings..

[Ka-canor]

Quality link and Quality Content.

[dee_el07]

Quality link and Quality Content.

and believe on what Ka-canor always said..

[MES]

SEO is the process of optimizing your web pages so that search engines can quickly find out what your website is all about. We know there are 2 types of optimization: onpage optimization (i.e: title, meta tags, keyword, header tags, bolding, etc) and offpage optimization.

Onpage Optimization will make SMALL changes in your ranking, but WILL NOT help your site make dramatic jumps in ranking. It is the OFFPAGE OPTIMIZATION factors that will get you high rankings.

Important things about Offpage Optimization are:
1. Which websites link to you
2. The number of websites linking to you
3. The Google page rank of the website linking to you
4. The page title of the website linking to you
5. The anchor text used in the link linking to you
6. The number and type of links linking to the website that's linking to you
7. The number of outbound links on the website that's linking to you
8. The total number of links on the website that's linking to you
9. Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as an authority website, etc.

I have optimized my http://globalwarmingawareness2007-mes.com blog.
It got PR5 in less than four months!

Hope it helps

MES