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SEO - Tips to Optimize Your Webpage to Compete for a High Ranking
Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important to websites. If you rank high in search engines, your website are shown to a huge number of target users.To start with, you have to pick a list of target keywords. Try the google Adwords: Keyword tool for selecting the best keywords for your site.
Remember, be specific with your keywords! eg trying to rank well for “web Development” is going to be hard, but trying to rank well for “asp.net web development” is easier to achieve.
Go to google.com, search on the target keyword your website has planned to work on. Then check the top ranking website, learn from it, and do better.
How to do better? Here’s some basic practices…
1. place your optimizes keyword in titles, and make sure you have 1 title per page. to do this all you need to do is use the <h1> tag in very top of the page.
2. place keyword phases in a paragraph or 2 of text at the top of your site.
3. On your web page, set your first graphic with ALT set to your target keyword
4. build a text based sitemap, add ALT if it is an image
5. OPML / RSS site map
6. bold or underline keyword (1 or 2 times only)
7. The key word/phrase should be used again very near the end of the page.
8. try to register a good domain name with keyword (I guess keyword in subdirectory is ok)
9. navigation menu on the right, since google bot looks from top and left.
Get Listed in Google in 24 Hours
So, you launched your new site. And you are waiting for the traffic to come. An waiting, and waiting, and waiting,…
It currently takes Google 6 to 9 months to index any new site. Yes, 6 to 9 months and that is not to rank that is just to be indexed. As a site owner you can’t wait that long. You can pay for search engine submissions but what if there was a FREE way to accomplish the same thing. And to have it take affect quickly.
Yes, there is a FREE way and it doesn’t involve any complicated programming or massive amounts of your time.
Find websites in your category and at least one that is a Page Rank of 5 or higher and get them to exchange links with you. It is that simple. I’ve found this also works well with sites that have been live for a while but aren’t indexed.
(Google has a system to give every site a Page Rank. You can download the google toolbar to view a pages rank here, http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/index.html.)
How do you find sites in your category? It’s easy. Go to Google and type in one of your search terms. Select some suitable sites and ask them to exchange links.
This is simple and it works every time.
What to think about when purchasing a domain name.
SEO is never easy, trying to improve search engine rankings is just like a rubics cube. A puzzle that can keep you occupied for hours. How many times have you heard a SEO ‘er say “They keep changing the rules?,” and the frustrating part is…they don’t even tell you what the rules are in the first place!
It’s a proven fact, in trying to improve search engine rankings, that growing your site through link popularity, by slowly acquiring incoming quality links, adding small amounts of fresh relevant content on a regular basis, using proper keyword density and placement, along with making your site “sticky” so your visitor’s stay longer.
But now, there’s something else that you have to know about!
Google is starting to weigh in heavy on domain names. Not what your domain is, or how long you’ve had it. Google wants to know how long you plan on keeping it, as in, how long is it registered for!
They’ve begun NOT giving as much consideration to domains registered for just a year, thinking they might be spammers, making a quick hit and then they’re out of here. If they see you’re registered for 5 years, then you must be a serious business that has planned on being around for quite a long time.
Helen Thomas, one of the all-time great White House correspondents, would always be chosen by President Reagan to ask questions at press conferences. Here’s why:..She found out that the President had a fondness for the color red. So, Helen started wearing a red blazer to press conferences and he would always pick her out of a press room packed with other reporters.
So, in other words… put a red blazer on your web site, drop £40 registering your domain name for several years and show Google, along with other search engines, you are serious about sticking around and wanting to improve search engine rankings.