Top search engines rankings are the basic measure of success of any website. If a website is developed for any specific reason like providing useful information, selling products or services online through shopping carts, issuing online loans, affiliate marketing, social networking services, blog or article writing services, etc, it must be optimized well for all the major search engines so that it can attract good number of quality visitors through high rankings and generate good revenue that is the basic objective of any online business.

To achieve the top rankings on major search engines there are many important SEO factors that should be taken into account. Search Engine Optimization is basically a process to optimize the website to make your website search engine friendly by resolving important website issues, performing On-Page factors and doing Off-Page SEO to promote the website through other partner websites by creating quality backlinks. Good On-page SEO and the ever- increasing popularity of the website through quality backlinks is very important for the improvement of rankings on search engines and generate good traffic.

Essential website issues that should be resolved for any website involves canonical issue, search engine unfriendly redirections, duplicate content, broken links, pages, images, coding errors and HTML validation, etc. Major On-Page SEO factors includes creation of Title, Meta tags, including useful Header tags, Alt tags, Content Optimization with standard keyword density and using useful anchor text, internal linking, creation of robots.txt file and both Sitemaps - HTML and XML. Off-Page Optimization activities mainly consists of quality and relevant directory submissions, link building, article syndication, press releases, blog postings, XML Feed syndication, Social Media Optimization/Marketing, link baiting, etc.

An interactive website with useful & quality content along with attractive images is very useful for the visitors coming to the website. There are some more factors helpful in the fast promotion of the website that includes pay per click through Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN/Bing AdCenter, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, etc. but it all depends upon the marketing budget of the website.

If the website is optimized well with all the possible SEO factors, it will definitely achieve the top rankings on all the major search engines and attract good number quality visitors to the website. Also SEO is not a one-time job; it should be performed regularly to maintain the high rankings and continue to achieve the quality visitors to the website.

Any online ecommerce business depends upon the website for its income through quality traffic, and every website owner should be aware of the fact that the best type of traffic for any website is as usual, organic search engine traffic, and above all the traffic is all free for the website that highly effect the return on investment of any online business.