Getting Ahead in 
Followup and Monitor Your Progress
You should work to add back links whenever you can. As you browse the web, keep an eye out for sites that would be complimented by a link to your site. If they have reciprocal link pages join them, or write the site owner and ask for a link to your site. This is an ongoing goal, and should be something you do from now on.
At this point you can go back and start optimizing additional pages for additional keywords. Remember that Google loves sites with lots of pages with original, meaningful content. Write more pages with a specific topic in mind, and optimize each page for a different keyword or phrase.
You'll want to monitor your progress and make sure your pages stay optimized. Continue to use Total Optimizer Pro to monitor the top ten ranking sites, and use Web Position Gold's Reporter module to easily track your rankings for each of your keywords, across all the search engines. A real report can be seen here: Ranking report
The five steps to getting to the top 10 are:
- Choose your keywords
- Optimize your pages
- Get inbound links! (Especially from high PR sites)
- Routinely analyze the Top 10 ranking sites
- Monitor your progress
Watch your own traffic
Did you know your own site can reveal lots of detailed information about your visitors? Tracking your visitors can reveal things such as:
- How many visitors you had by hour, day, week, or month
- Are your traffic trends up or down?
- Where your visitors came from
- How many and what pages they visited
- How long they stayed
- what search engines sent visitors to you
- What search terms they used to find you
- Lots More!
If your web host doesn't provide detailed traffic analysis, You'll want to check our our own traffic analysis tool. You can try it for 30 days free: Web Site Traffic Analysis Tool
Resources:
Here are the tools mentioned in this article:
Wordtracker keyword analysis
Google Toolbar
Link Vault
PR Prowler
Get your link from FizzFuzz.com
Web Site Traffic Analysis Tool
Prologue
The one guarantee about ranking well on search engines is the fact that things change constantly! Google is always tweaking their algorithm, Yahoo is making big changes to try to regain the top spot, and Microsoft has said that search is an area they are focusing on.
Keep up with the latest Search Engine News
It's extremely important to stay on top of the changes if you want to stay on top of the search results. Search Engine News is the best newsletter we've found to do just that.
Companies like The Weather Channel, Reader's Digest, and TV Guide subscribe to this newsletter, and Patrick Oleary, founder of Matchmaker.com, attributes much of his success to the techniques he learned from this newsletter. By the way, he sold Matchmaker.com for 45 million dollars!
Check out Search Engine News and you'll see why it is the best investment you'll make this year.
See you at the top!
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