Listed here are some quick tips to optimize your search engine rankings:

Increase internal and incoming links. Cross link all you web pages within each site. Create several small websites related to you main page. Each one should have a few pages only. Cross link all of them using selective and important keywords. Be sure to include back links to the main site. Remember, creating too many web pages from the same IP address can cause them to be banned. Check what sites your competitors’ link from, and use these sites to back link your page.

Some sites accept site submissions. Find these sites and submit links. Avoid words like a, an, and, but, his, I, of, she and others in your title tag. These words are too common and are usually ignored by some search engines and will thus cause a drop in your search engine rankings. Avoiding common words will enhance speed and be specific and relevant to the search results.

Include a title tag. This should be your firstMetatag to be used directly after the head tag.  AMetadescription tag should follow up. This should contain the most important keyword phrases for your web page.Metarefresh tags should be set to refresh after thirty seconds.

JavaScript redirect tag is recommended as many search engines consider web pages which refresh in less than thirty seconds as spam. Make sure you include a site map with links to all your pages. This enables search engines to find and index your pages. If the number of links on your web page exceeds fifty, limit them to the most important pages.

Try and make the first few lines of the first paragraph in your web page fit in as a description because many search engines use these lines as search results. An overall keyword density of about 2% is recommended, with a minimum word count of approximately three hundred and a maximum word count of about seven hundred on each page.

You could also name directories after the keyword phrase, and use hyphens and underscores to separate the keywords. Another trick is to name your graphic files after keyword phrases. This is a tried and tested method of optimizing search engine rankings.

Avoid image maps as they do not offer search engines any link texts to index and many search engines don’t even follow image map links. Of course, another great trick is to use great writing style. Use of unique and uncommon words sprinkled over your text will enable your web pages a greater chance of being listed right at the top, in the list of results.