Getting the best page rank possible is the name of the game.  You want and need to beat your competition. This article has 11 no nonsense tips that work. There are many ways to improve a site’s SEO but no way to guarantee its effectiveness. It’s not a specific science, so beyond implementing the strategies I describe below there is no clear right or wrong. Even the best SEO masters can only make small tweaks, wait, then watch their effects on organic traffic.  According to a Business Insider article Google still holds close to an 80% strangle hold on the search engine market share, while if you peruse the Google annual report you’ll find that Google has made over 350 tweaks to its search engine in 2008. All those tweaks mean one thing: what works today might not work tomorrow. The following are some things that you can do to help improve your site’s ranking.

1. Focus on one web page a time.

2. Use valid mark up.

3. Content is king.

4. Engage in link campaigns

5. Stay away from malicious web sites or questionable content.

6. Follow accessibility guidelines.

7. Do not, under any circumstance try to artificially pad your page rank by deploying dummy websites. Do not, under any circumstance try to abuse the system in any other way.

8. Provide a site map to Google to help it navigate and index your web site.

9. Include keywords in URLs whenever possible.

10. Use key phrases in your site’s content.

11. Take advantage of social media for everything it’s worth.

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