Having a website running and not listed on first few pages at Google is a waste. Waste on money, time and effort. Web world is now bombarded with keyword rich articles and in order to stay ahead of them to bring your website on the first page at Google needs expertise, patience, clarity on vision and above all, a burning desire to stay on top. It is extremely difficult to exactly isolate what Google weighs, but if you follow the following guidelines in letter and spirit, you will definitely be able to bring your website on the first page at Google. Amongst others, 10 most influential things you need to do on your article are:

1. Selecting appropriate keyword(s) yield dividend. For this, you need to have SEO knowledge along with a keen eye to detect market trend. Few keywords are always in high demand, but others are time/event specific. Try to understand market demand and catch hold this second category of keywords as your chance of bringing your website on the first page at Google will depend on how fast you can respond to the market demand. Working with the seasoned keywords in order to reach top is difficult for the reason need not to explain.
2. Never put your keywords awkwardly. Maintain a 2-3% density for your primary keywords. Never exceed to 3% benchmark. Of course, this figure needs to be researched out from time to time. Few technical, especially medical articles may need higher keyword density in order to make them at the top on Google. Use your sixth sense to find out what density would be appropriate depending on the subject, market trend and competition for a given article. Title of your post also must have the keywords inserted.
3. Treating your title tag with utmost care and affection is very important, as this will eventually show you the way to bring your website on the first page at Google. Your search engine optimization skill will tell you how to make a title tag google-attractive.
4. Study web stat for your website in order to understand weak areas reflected and accordingly initiate remedial measures so that stat can improve and your website can appear on the first page. This will require little experience and over time you will understand how stat can be improved. Stay on; keep on updating your site. Google can’t ignore your high presence.
5. Updating your site at frequent interval is a must to keep your site highly demanding by Google. Adding regular features, updating contents help bringing back your visitors to your site. You may also declare giving special offers to the serious visitors. You must not be skeptical to incorporate new trends to your site. All these will ensure helping you bringing your website on the first page at Google.
6. Have an open-end communication channel to listen to your visitors. Take note what they say. Keep an opt in box and encourage your visitors to leave their e-mail address for you to let you communicate with them to bring them back on your site. This will guide you improving your site’s acceptability.
7. If you add lots of high quality links to your website, they will generate constructive votes for you. Your site will become stronger to face Google. Google Page Rank will improve substantially. By ‘high quality’, I mean linking to those websites that have higher acceptability and trustworthy. Google gives lower credit to a page having links directing to less reliable websites. Make a serious note of it.
8. Don’t copy materials straight from web. Check the most successful sites. Research their contents, presentations, keyword density and source codes. But never dare to copy them. Once researched and understood, now develop your own content, may be in line with the website referred. This may brighten your chance to be on top. However, if you try to copy their META tags, search engines will smart enough to discard you. Be careful.
9. META Tags, Image ALT tags, Site map and Page Title all constitute the key elements for a website as far as search engine’s affection is concerned. Give special attention to each one of them. Each one is designed following specific principle. Know them and implement them in letter and spirit.
10. Getting on the first page at Google is really tough. You need to be consistent in your effort and desire. There is no substitute for hard working. It may even take anywhere between 7 to 10 months, spending one hour daily in an average, of rigorous hard work to reach on the first page of Google. So, keep on analyzing the web-stat and accordingly update your site.