How to Get Your Tutorials to the Top of Google

I thought I'd share this bit of information as it could to useful to tutorial writers. Obviously, you want as many organic hits to your tutorials as possible. With Google being the most popular search engine that's a good place to start.

Just through a bit of tutorial writing experience it's really easy to write a tutorial that gets to the top of Google in just a few days. Here's what you do:

Firstly, you need to make sure the tutorial you write is original. If you Google search some tutorials and there are hundreds of similar ones you need to rethink the subject matter of your tutorial. If this is the case you should think about an alternative subject even if you have your heart set on writing this one. If you do a search and deem your idea is original then you are already over the biggest hurdle.

At this point you need to write the actual tutorial. Let's say you've written it; you're only one step way from getting to the top of Google.

Next you need to get Google to find the tutorial by getting some good-quality links to it. It's all about quality and not quantity here so two or three links from high ranking sites are much better than fifty links from low ranking sites. I recommend you submit your tutorials to Pixel2Life and Tutorialized (and if the tutorial is Photoshop based Good-Tutorials.). Here is the important part: make sure the name you give the tutorial (in the title tag and h1 tag) and the name you use to submit the tutorial to other sites all match the keywords you originally entered into Google when you were doing your originality search. Now let's assume your tutorial has been accepted by a couple of these sites; Google loves sites like these and once your tutorial is accepted and linked to it will begin indexing your tutorial. Wait a few days (it may be up to a week) and then enter your keywords into Google and if everything has worked in your favour you will see your tutorial in the top spot. It will periodically fluctuate but that's the nature of the Google beast.

Of course for this process to work your tutorial must be of a good quality else it won't get accepted by the high profile websites. The trick is to find some keywords that a) people will search for and b) someone else hasn't used to write a tutorial yet.