As you already know, if your website doesn't get enough traffic from Google, you have to do something to improve its ranking on the search engine. A website with no traffic is no good. In fact, without visitors, no website is considered alive or valuable. So, if you want to make your website a popular one, you should get it a lot of visitors from Google. But the catch is that getting a blog or website ranked on the search engine is getting harder with the passage of time, as the task requires a great deal of time and effort. Below are 4 tips that can help you accomplish the task with ease.

1. Let Google Know You Are There

How do people do this? Well, Google does offer a submission form for new website owners to submit their website. This way the giant search engine comes to know about the existence of your new blog or site. But believe me, you don't have to go this way.

What you need to do is let the search monster discover your site through another reputable site. The former method is prone to spam masters, and most spammers go that way. Once the Google bots check out your site, the pages of your blog will get indexed, and each time you will post new content, Google will index it automatically and your blog ranking will continue to improve.

2. Perform on-site SEO

Once your blog pages get indexed by Google, your next step should be to check your site for on-page SEO. This is another very important factor that can get your website ranked among the top sites and blogs. Given below are the things that will help you improve your on-page SEO.

Sitemap
Internal linking of your blog pages
Permalink structure
HTML code

3. Authority links

If you want to rank higher, you need to keep two major factors in mind: quality links from authority sites and quality content. What does this mean? This means you have to find sites that you can get back links from. Ideally, the sites should be on the first five pages on Google for related search terms. Getting hundreds of low-quality links won't be of any use.

Here it's important to note that the back links should come from sites or blogs that are related to your site or blog niche. Getting thousands of links from unrelated sites won't work for you.

4. Monitor your performance

How can you find out if your blog ranking is improving? Well, there are a lot of online tools that you can use to check your website ranking. A simple way is to make a search on Google with the keywords you included in your content. If your website shows up on the first few pages for the terms you searched for, your rankings are improving.

In short, the 4 methods described above can get your blog ranked if applied properly. Hopefully, you will be able to rank higher from now own.

1. Social content will gain prominence:

More and more social media content indexed on Google and other popular search engines, blurring the lines between 'web' and 'social media' SEO strategies.

76% of marketers use Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ to boost and support SEO Links to social media networks plays a role in how search engines understand your website is credible and relevant.

2. Videos will still rule:

In 2016 marketers used video as a powerful tool to drive their digital and SEO efforts. In 2017 expect more businesses to embrace the trend, and use videos to capture new audiences. 80% of video results that show up in SERPs are from YouTube. Videos get 50X better organic page ranks in Google when compared with against plain, static text results. Video searches receive 41% higher click-through rate a compared to plain, static text content.

3. Mobile optimization will become crucial:

Today people use a range of devices to access content. Tablets, smartphones, laptops, phones and even watches have become standard tools to browse the web. Search engines know this and they reward websites that look good on all devices. Google now gives mobile friendly sites a ranking boost on mobile searches. 95% smartphone users have searched for local info. Mobile search is up 43% year on year. Over 1.2 billion people access the web from their mobile devices. 4 out of 5 consumers use smartphones to shop.

4. Content aggregation will get bigger & better:

More than ever people are looking for content sources that provide all the relevant information they need in a single place. Search engines have noticed this trend and as a result content aggregators are becoming very popular in the SERPs.

5. The craze of mobile apps will grow:

As discussed above, use of mobile for web search is on the all-time rise and apps just make the work easier. Just a few more years and mobile apps are sure to overpower desktop and mobile websites. Mobile apps account for 52% of all time spent on online digital media. (TechCrunch). Internet reveals that users spend 89% mobile time using apps. 85% of people prefer native mobile apps to websites. (SearchEngineJournal).

6. Local SEO to become even more important:

Local search is going stronger over the years. In 2017 you have to let Google know where you are located and what you are offering.