Monday, June 6, 2011

Quick Search Engine Optimization Tips

SEO profession is very challenging profession and seo is always fighting to get rank well in search engines. Without success there is no chance for you to do online business. My below search engine optimization tips will definately guide beginners to achieve their target :

1. Your first aim should be research your business and product offerings.
2. Research your target keywords suitable for your online products.
3. Spend time on your competitor's websites and their target keywords.
4. Check the content, title and meta of your competitor's website.
5. Use keyword suggestion tool and check which keywords pull the most traffic.
6. Don't forget to research on most and least competitive keywords.
7. Ensure that the html code is error free and easily crawlable by search engines.
8. Avoid javascript and flash in your website.
9. Check your robots.txt is working fine and not blocking important pages from being indexed.
10. Use your target keywords in your title tags and place keywords in the beginning on the title tag.
11. Make sure every page on your site has a unique title and meta tags.
12. Don't forget to mention city/area in title where business is being served.
13. Keep your title short and catcy
14. Mention your company name in either title or meta tags for brand recognition purposes.
15. Don't miss your target keywords in your meta description and it should be catchy.
16. Focus on keyword phrases and include these phrases in title and meta description.
17. Verify your website in google webmaster tool.
18. Use stylesheet to make your website light.
19. Avoid using ajax and flash
20. Avoid using dynamic urls.
21. Utilize your target keywords in the urls.
22. Content is king so always add fresh content. Try to have 400-500 words per page.
23. Write content for users not for search engines. It will help you keep your bounce rate low.
24. Try to maintain keyword density of 2-3%
25. Don't hide text by making its font size too small or by making it the same color as the background color.
26. Don't stuff keywords. It can make your content tasteless.
27. For heading of the page, use H1 and use it only once for heading. For subheading use H2, H3, H4...
28. Bold or italicize important keywords only.
29. Use target keywords in image alt tags and ensure that all images have Alt description tags.
30. Use keywords in image files.

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