How to get your website to come up in google search results..

I agree with all the advice above. Getting listed high up in Google is a holy grail pursued by millions of webmasters every day. If it was easy they'd all do it.

Google's decision who to place where in the rankings is placed on a complicated recipe (or "algorithm") the precise detail of which is a closely guarded secret and changes from time to time. However, there are certain features which tend to be pretty constant.

(1) It helps to have the keywords you want to be ranked for appearing in the title and description of your webpage, and better still in the url; (but not in a repeated or "spammy" way)

(2) It helps to have those keywords appearing in the content of your website, but again not too often, and only as part of genuinely helpful content;

(3) Perhaps most importantly, it helps to have links from other websites which are relevant to your website. Not all links are equally valuable. The most valuable links are those from main pages on reputable sites which Google ranks highly, where there are not too many other outgoing links on the same page. Google also looks at the "anchor text" or the links - the ideal being to have lots of high value links whose anchor text contains the keywords you want to be found for.

How do you achieve this? With some difficulty. Google does not like people trying to buy their way to the top of the rankings, because if you could buy your way in the rankings would be less helpful to Google's users. What Google is looking for are genuine links from people who have linked to you because they like your content and want to recommend it to their visitors. Nevertheless, many successful websites do engage in link building campaigns which successfully improve their rankings. The following tactics may work:

- submit posts containing links in relevant forums which allow them - generally not this one
- submit your site to quality directories;
- write helpful articles on topics relevant to your site (but not using content from your site - Google does not like duplicated content) and submit them to sites which allow you to include a link back to your site;
- make a friendly approach to other webmasters whose websites cover a similar theme to yours; a one way link is better than a reciprocal link, but a reciprocal link is better than nothing;

You can pay people to do some or all of these things for you. SEO firms are expensive; getting someone to build links for you (posting the task on a site such as http://www.scriptlance.com is usually much cheaper, but you risk getting low value links or links from low value neighbourhoods for which Google may penalise you if you are unlucky.

Overall, if you are seeking to be listed for competitive keywords, you will probably struggle. But if you have a site providing really helpful content in a niche area, you will find it much easier. And it would probably be a good idea to spend some time in specialist SEO related forums getting some free advice from real experts.

All the above advice assumes you do not want to try to game Google and use tactics of which Google disapproves. It is possible to race up the rankings for a short while by using disapproved tactics, but it is very high risk, because if Google catches on the site may be blacklisted and never get significant traffic from Google again.

Good luck!