You’ve purchased a great domain name, designed an attractive site with great page load times, and hosted it with a quality web host. Your site is ready for Google’s first visit, beginning the search for a high page rank. Here are five easy tips to get you on the right track.

1. Submit your site. Google bots are busy crawling the millions of established sites that have already been published. They appreciate being notified that there is a new site to view. When you’re sure your page doesn’t contain any spelling, grammar, or linking errors, submit your site to Google to invite the web spider to visit it.

2. Submit a sitemap. Google offers this free service to help spiders crawl your site. Once your sitemap URL is crawled by Google, you can easily visit all of your pages quickly and thoroughly, thus getting your site indexed correctly. Check out your webmaster tools to learn how to set up your sitemap and submit it to Google.

3.Use quality content. Include content that is important to your visitors. Google is a search engine, loyal to the visitor looking for information. They have no loyalty to the website owner. They will rank your site higher if the content is useful and applicable.

4. Use fresh content. If your site includes information that is frequently updated, visitors will appreciate it, and therefore Google will. It’s pretty sad to see a breaking title on a website, and the news is three years old. Write an article, announce some news or review a company; keep it up to date.

5. Link. One of the most important things you can do to rank higher in the eyes of Google is to make other high-ranking sites think you are important. List your site’s URL on a quality website, meaning one that complements your keywords and site content. A great way to do this is to submit your site to a quality reciprocal link directory. Link directories like Excite Link [http://excitelink.com/] list of companies and quality services for the search of visitors.

These tips will give you a great start to rank high in Google. Always stay active in your research of current search engine optimization do’s and don’ts, and keep track of your experiments. As my piano teacher used to say, practice makes perfect.