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Friday, January 3, 2014

Essential Search Engine Optimization Tips For Website Owners

By Georgiana Lauzon


It can be challenging to get a site to do well. With millions of competing sites, how can you stand out? There are many methods to do that, but the best way is to do some search engine optimization, or SEO, on your website to attract search engines so they will rank your site well. Here are a few easy ways you can begin implementing SEO for your site.

View source codes on competitors' websites. This will let you see how they are using SEO on their own website, and what keywords they are using. While you might not wish to imitate their methods, this bit of sleuthing can make you think of other keywords and things to try.

How you present keywords is just as important as using them consistently. By adding bold or italic tags, you impart importance to your visitors and draw their attention to them. This also has an impact on the search engines. This simple addition brings weight to searches and drives visitors to act.

Visit your site and check to make sure that the title tag at the top of your window describes the content that you are looking at. Be sure that it contains the keywords that you want readers to associate with your website. If you are a small local business be sure that the key local search words are included in the title tag. Keywords are the backbone of search engine optimization. Keywords, when written, should be italicized, underlined, and bold when possible. Check into the backlinks of those you consider competitors. Copy their backlinks creatively. You need backlinks pointing at your site as much as possible. Get backlinks from sites that have the same theme as yours.

It is important to remember the search engine optimization articles must be useful to the reader. The blurb or article must provide them with value and applicable relevance. Search engine optimization verbiage needs to be something that the average person can easily relate to, so there is no need for formal language.

One of the best things that you can use on your page is numbers and bullets to indicate separation between ideas and lists. This will help improve the structure and organization of your site, which will go hand in hand with the personality that the customer will tag to you and your organization.

One of the biggest mistakes budding SEO experts make is having titles on their site that are just too long. Keep in mind that most search engines put a 60 character cap on keywords for a title, so the shorter, more informative you can make your title, the better off you will be.

When choosing good keywords for your website, you should look for keywords that a buyer would use. Use product or brand names, or keyword related to a problem or a solution, for instance sentences starting with 'how to'. You can easily track which keywords leads people to your website and create similar keywords.

With a few tweaks to your website, you can help the major search engines find and rank your site. You've put the effort into building a quality site, so make sure that people can see it. Incorporate these tips into your site, and you will see the results sooner than you think.




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