Hi,
I really don't have much room to talk as most of my sites are on PR 1, but I just wanted to share how I felt about google ranking.
1. Google looks highly at many sites linking back to your site (The higher ranking the other site is that links back to yours, will make google look at your site higher)
2. Of course google wants content, content, content. Make sure that your site has a lot of internal links. And yes, submit your sitemap.
3. Unique content. The more unique your content is then other sites the more potential you have at getting more people to your site. Say, if you place a game on your site and copy the description the site gave for the game, Instead create your own descriptions, instructions, tips, etc. And Google will be able to uniquely identify your site from others.
4. Google may not look at your meta data and description, but make sure you do not spam your meta data with continuous words, or google may ignore that page. Also make sure not to place (flash games, flash games, flash games, All over your site) about 4-5 times would be okay, but after that google may consider this excessive content and disregard the page from the credit it deserves.
Also, Sometimes it just takes time to get a higher ranking
I don't know if this has helped at all, but I hope it has.
thanx
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