Do you ever ask this question? What do search engines want?
Here is why it is important to know what Google wants. First of all
make friends with search engines and never ever try to cheat them.
The answer to get better rankings is simple give search engines what
they want. Now I mentioned Google, because most of the time it is
better to focus on get rankings in Google.
If you give search engines what they want, they reward you. They
usually want to give their customers, who are the people using the
search engines, the most accurate results and please them in every way.
It means you need to create a decent website as well. See what your
customers want exactly and give them that on your website. If they want
to learn create some articles, not just sell them a bunch of affiliate
products.
You make more money, by pleasing your visitors and at the same time you
are pleasing search engines. They love it because thanks to your
amazing website they can provide their customers with great search
engine results. That is how they reward you of course, by improve your
rankings.
That is just one factor to improve search engine rankings. However I did not say, do that only and you get top rankings.
The saying, content is king on the Internet has a lot to do with this too. Most often search engines
want content, because most people are looking for content. If the
majority of people used the Internet to find videos, then probably the
saying would be, videos are king on the Internet, and probably search
engines would love websites with videos not content.
That is the reason why adding content is important. It does not mean
you flood your site and homepage with content. You can add content by
creating a blog, a section for articles, a forum, hire ghostwriters
from freelancing websites, swap articles with other webmasters, hire
someone to write articles on your blog and many other methods.
We internet marketers certainly do not create content because we love
to write. We prefer playing tennis, golf or watching TV, but we do it
to please our visitors and the search engines.
Many webmasters heard the so called duplicate content theory. Basically
this created panic. The only people who remained getting results and
improving their business, are those that have experience and ignored
this theory. Simple because there is a new theory all the time, and in
most cases it is just theory, but on forums they spread like wildfire,
and new webmasters are the first to make sure they avoid this new
epidemic.
You just have to research and discuss the theory with honest webmasters
who have lots of experience and contacts, who can easily tell you if it
is a myth, or if maybe the theory is genuine
Test results show that even if there is an exact same article like
yours on a thousand different websites, your site, page or anything
else will not get banned. Your rankings will not drop. If you want to
place an article from another website on to yours, it is a good idea
however to give credit to that website, by placing a link to it.
So remember to give search engines what they want, become their friends
and see what they are up to so they reward you with better search
engine rankings.