Career Builder has a few tips that might help:
- Use descriptive and informative text on each page of your website, choosing words that relate directly to your product, service or industry.
- Highlight and feature your most important content first, in a clear, uncluttered fashion.
- Ask other relevant sites to link to yours. One measure search engines now use to measure your site’s importance is the quality, and, to a lesser extent, volume of outside sites that refer to your own.
- Be sure to create distinct titles for each of the pages on your website, and use your keywords in the titles.
- Write descriptions that are clear, factual and free of excessive superlatives (best, cheapest, biggest). People prefer sites that are more factual and less “sales talk.”
- If your geographic location is relevant, use it in your site and make it part of your list of keywords.
- Don’t expect all search engines and online directories to find you. Many directories, such as the Yahoo! directory and the Open Directory project, offer paid submission options - take advantage of them.