It's not entirely free though. You have to spend money on the food to give you the energy to do that. You have to spend money on the gasoline to power your car to drive around, you have to pay for the electricity used while printing that document, etc.

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Just look at where my site ranks for "free wallpapers" >> Freewallpapershd.com  I'm not bsing you.

Important aspects of web ranking:
1. Content - good content (something of quality - interesting)
2. Backlinks - quality sites linking to yours will pass "link juice" to your site - which will help you rank faster
3. Domain Age - plays an important role in ranking of your site, however not necessary if you have quality backlinks and awesome content that people care about.

and ofcourse,online advertising.

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So if you have a health related website, there is no point to use general keywords, as "medicine" or "pharmacy". Because there are hundreds of millions of webpages that have this words. And if your website has a page rank less than 10, it will just get lost in search results and their will never be a click from the search engine.

Example: there is a purpose to increase traffic of a webpage http://medicationssuppliers.com/add-url-b2b-directory.html from the health oriented companies.

There is no use to write "submit URL for FREE!!!!!!!"
We write "add medical URL for free", "add medical supplier for free to health directory"
It is also useful to add words as "Blood Pressure Management" or "Diabetes Care Products" - specific words that are included in the directory.

Only thousands are writing "Diabetes Care Products" and people, are looking for this are really looking for diabetes care products. This way there is a chance for a website with PR 3.

If you add a word "Immunoglobulins" to your keywords, there is a chance, that there will be a click one your website. To the webpage with PR less than 10 and with keywords "Submit URL" - there will never be a click!

This way chance to get a hit from a search engine is more than 0.
 
Good luck!

Post edited at 4:37 am on Nov. 22, 2009 by AndreyW

1) Submit it to a search engine
If your site is new, google hasn't gotten the chance to prowl around it, you should probably inform them that you do exist and maybe a couple other search engines too so you can start appearing in their results.

2) Take advantage of meta tags
One of the most neglected things for me to do is to make sure my meta tags are in check. If yours aren't in check either you could be affecting where you stand in search engine listings.

3) Get links in
One of the more important things is to let google know that you are indeed important to other websites. You should probably get links from as many places and and as many websites with high amounts of traffic, if you can. Don't underestimate the power of the link, it didn't work out well for bush or a variety of other causes.