improve your search engine ranking

[hiren_mehta007]

how to improve your search engine ranking by effective use of meta tags and other HTML tags?

[colbertk]

Keywords in your meta tags should be relevant to the content. Regular updating of your content with the keywords will boost your rankings with the major search engines.
Of course, inbound links and back links plays a major role in getting your site rank well. Link building should never be stopped if you don't want to loose your rankings.

[imcool2121]

have title tag and meta tags for your websites. Search engines are friendly with websites with html title tags

[Jenie0109]

For search engine bots to read an image... use "ALT" tag so that an image can still be useful when it comes to optimization

[seanslotter]

Alt tag is no only in images also in pure Flash site like Hersheys.com(it is popular chocolate brand) and embed flash application of web page.

[geraldine]

That's the job of On-Page Optimization.. Here are some of the factors you have to consider about On-Page Optimization:
- title tags
- alt-tags (this is use when you try to describe images)
- descriptions
- h1/h2 tags (headings)
- meta tags
- keywords (you can use some of the tools to check for keywords)

[JamesHarden]

Ya..Its very true that regular updating of keywords and content is necessary for improving site ranking in search engine...

[Hafsoh]

I will say careful handling of Meta Tag Optimization can get you great Ranking Results. The Title Tag is not a Meta Tag but it is very important, arguably the single most important element of on page optimization. Take the time to develop your title tags carefully, making sure you have a good keyword foundation from which to draw and that every page has its own unique title reflecting the subject and keyword terms being optimized for.

[Alan]

Keywords in your meta tags should be relevant to the content. Regular updating of your content with the keywords will boost your rankings with the major search engines.

This is indeed a key point, fresh content is one of the main criteria.

For search engine bots to read an image... use "ALT" tag so that an image can still be useful when it comes to optimization

There isn't such a thing as an "alt tag", alt is an arguement used as part of the img tag (you need to learn html). This is an essential part of optimisation, and web accessibilty guidelines.

have title tag and meta tags for your websites. Search engines are friendly with websites with html title tags

Title tags are extremely important, no page should ever be without a title tag, but meta tags is a different matter (see below).

I will say careful handling of Meta Tag Optimization can get you great Ranking Results. The Title Tag is not a Meta Tag but it is very important, arguably the single most important element of on page optimization. Take the time to develop your title tags carefully, making sure you have a good keyword foundation from which to draw and that every page has its own unique title reflecting the subject and keyword terms being optimized for.

Dont bother about meta tags too much, it has been widely known for some time that meta tags are pretty much ignored by the big search engines, now we know for sure. I read in an article that Matt Cutts has now come out and said it quite clearly (read the article here), well at least for Google.

[kaven09]

I'm currently using a tool called travis traffic, it helps me alot in term of SEO for the meta tag and etc coupled with my effort in backlinks buildings...my site get in 5th position in google after 4 weeks after the domain registration..

One good thing is that travis traffic is free