Here are 10 important steps required to effectively optimize a particular content page with a keyword phrase(s). Following these steps will increase your Search Engine Ranking in a short epoch of time.

1. Find out if your content page is indexed. You can do that by taking it s page title and searching for it on Google. If your page is not indexed then create and submit a sitemap to the 4 major search engines (google yahoo live ask). You can create a sitemap using the free tool found at xml-sitemaps.com

2. Scan the page content to find which keyword phrases are available. Compile a list of keyword phrases that appear 2 or more times with this free keyword extractor tools.seoerbook.com/general/keyword-density.

3. Find the ranking that you are currently receiving with those keyword phrases. Use the Free Rank Checker software produced by SEO Tools. Download the software from tools.seoerbook.com/firefox/rank-checker. Export the data so that you can compare it to your future ranking results.

4. Find out how many searches the keyword phrases produce with this free tool at adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal. Choose the filter option Dont show ideas for new keywords. I only want to see data about the keywords I entered. The keyword phrases should have decent monthly searches except not be overly competitive. You could start with keyword phrases between 20000 to 50000 searches per month.

5. Eliminate the keyword phrases that are not producing any google search data and put your chosen keyword phrases in the keyword metaTag for your content page.

6. Now select a keyword phrase to optimize your content page. You can base your selection on its current ranking love shown by the Rank Checker Volume of monthly searches love shown by the Google Keyword Tool or simply pick one that you would love to go after.

7. Now optimize your page with that keyword phrase using like many search locomotive markers as possible. The search locomotive markers to consider include the Page Title Page URL metaTag Description metaTag Keywords Headings Anchor Text Bold Italic Alt and Content.

8. Perform a Google search of your keyword phrase and find out who is getting ranked on the first page. Find out the number of text links and the anchor text your competitors have pointing back (called backlinks) to their content page with this free tool backlinkwatch.com/index.php. This information will give you an idea where to post your text links and how many text links you will need pointing back to your content page.

9. Create as many text links with the keyword phrase in the anchor text and point to your content page. You can put your text links in content that you submit to article sites classified ad sites directories forums social bookmarking sites blogs etc.

10. Regularly gather data using the Rank Checker and Backlink Watch and compare your results. Important! Have fun optimizing and watching your content page increase its position.

Note: You can optimize the page content with other keyword phrases. However don t optimize as well many keyword phrases on a page. The larger the content page the more keyword phrases you can optimize. For smaller content pages less than 400 words it is safer to create a segregate content page for each keyword phrase.

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