10 Powerful techniques for SEO

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  • #1
    Once you have a website designer build your site, you must help search engines notice your website and people to find it. The world wide web is like an enormous virtual library, but the books are in no particular order and when somebody has switched the light off. How do you seek for what you want?
    This is where search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN come out to play and do what they do best. They gather and catalogue the library and deliver the relevant topics when requested.

    There are over 7 billion pages on the Web, one for nearly every individual on this planet today.

    SEO is not a sprint it’s a Marathon     and the following are just some of the many tips around on the internet today.

    SEO Tip #1: Find the Best Keywords

    It would be a waste of your time to optimize your website for keywords that are not even being searched for. Therefore you should invest some energy into finding the best keywords.

    SEO Tip #2: Discover Your Competitors

    It's a fact that search engines analyze incoming links to your website as part of their ranking criteria. Knowing how many incoming links your competitors have will give you a fantastic edge. Of course, you still have to discover your competitors before you can analyze them.

    SEO Tip #3: Optimize Your Title

    The Title and META tags should be different on every page of your website if you wish for most search engines to store and list them in the search results. no more than 66 characters

    SEO Tip #4: Optimize Your META Tags

    META tags are hidden code read only by search engine webcrawlers (also called spiders). mainly keyword and description plenty other but optional.

    SEO Tip #5: Use Headings in your page (include keyword)
    Headings play an important role in organizing information, so be sure to include at least H1-H3 when assembling your page.

    SEO Tip #6: Use Title and ALT Attributes

     Ensure images have labels again include keywords

    SEO Tip #7: Nomenclatures

    Whenever possible, you should save your images, media, and web pages with the keywords in the file names. For example, if your keyword phrase is "golf putters" you'll want to save the images used on that page as golf-putters-01.jpg or golf_putters_01.jpg (either will work).

    SEO Tip #8: Create a Site Map Page

    This allows webcrawlers (and users) to quickly and easily find content.

    SEO Tip #9: Include a robots.txt File

    This one command will tell any spider that hits your website to "please feel free to crawl every page of my website".

    SEO Tip #10: Install a sitemap.xml for Google

    Tell Google that you are here and want to seen and found.

     Bonus TIP join discussion forums and social networks and get amongst the communities.

    Search Engine Optimisation is by no means an overnight result don't listen to those who claim otherwise.
     
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    ThaiFoodOnline

  • #2
    Top tips SafetyNut - spot on!

    Another thing you could do is create SEO keyword landing pages. For example if your keywords are green monsters, you should try and name a file green-monsters.html and optimize it for that keyword.

    Similarly you should name all your product pages with descriptive file names i.e. apple-iphone.html etc.
     
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  • #3
    I find a blog is a great way to test potential keywords for your website if the content your website is based around is interesting. On some of my sites, I will write blog posts and check after a few days how they have performed in the search engines. If it is a popular term, I will then create new pages on the site based around a particular term with a view to driving the visitor somewhere else on the page where they might purchase something or contact the business.
     
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    domokun

  • #8
    I would replace tip 10 with "Find related sites and request links pointing to your site".

    Google XML sitemaps are usefull for big websites (like cataloges and eshops) but for a small site under (let's say) 100 pages, your original sitemap and on-page interlinking will help the search engines find all of your pages.

    Incoming links will help them find them even faster.
     
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    diycopymachines

  • #9
    there is few more things about building seo frienldy content on your websites.
    1. The keywords in your text content, should be placed at the begining and at the end of the sentence. Thats where they are most powerful. But becouse they are so powerful, you shoudn`t use them to oftem. lets say 1 keyowrd every 200 words should be all right.
    2. you can place a link containing your keywords in your text, at the end of the sentance, every 200-300 words.
    3.the main keyword should appeare at the begining and at the end of the site.
    4.build website code in the way, that the menu will be on the bottom of the code.
    5.code W3C standards valid will be indexed faster, and the compatibility with diferent browesres will be better.
     
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  • #12
    Delicious Webdesign said:
    hey diycopymachines ! another w3c standards fan! last time I mentioned that on here everyone came out the woodwork and moaned on about it being useless .. anyway thats another story
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    well, it`s hard not to agree with the fact that valid code is better. Besides that, you can always make a print off of W3C validation and show it to your clients. And belive me - even if client have no idea what W3c validation is, he is always happy seeing passed validation and that his website is "so good".

    Delicious Webdesign said:
    The main list is ok basic SEO but step 9 will do nothing good or bad for your site so dont bother if you want Google to crawl your site as normal.
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    yea, but if you have a site with form, or some other useles content, i think is alweys better not to index it.

    edit btw. i reed the article.
    btw2. you know what i`m finding out weird about google - that the websites with almost no gfx and css are getting higher possition, than nice looking ones as well as the web sites with not much content. Any one have an idea y?
     
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  • #13
    Isnt this a shorter version of

    http://www.top10seotips.com/

    safetynut said:
    Once you have a website designer build your site, you must help search engines notice your website and people to find it. The world wide web is like an enormous virtual library, but the books are in no particular order and when somebody has switched the light off. How do you seek for what you want?
    This is where search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN come out to play and do what they do best. They gather and catalogue the library and deliver the relevant topics when requested.

    There are over 7 billion pages on the Web, one for nearly every individual on this planet today.

    SEO is not a sprint it’s a Marathon     and the following are just some of the many tips around on the internet today.

    SEO Tip #1: Find the Best Keywords

    It would be a waste of your time to optimize your website for keywords that are not even being searched for. Therefore you should invest some energy into finding the best keywords.

    SEO Tip #2: Discover Your Competitors

    It's a fact that search engines analyze incoming links to your website as part of their ranking criteria. Knowing how many incoming links your competitors have will give you a fantastic edge. Of course, you still have to discover your competitors before you can analyze them.

    SEO Tip #3: Optimize Your Title

    The Title and META tags should be different on every page of your website if you wish for most search engines to store and list them in the search results. no more than 66 characters

    SEO Tip #4: Optimize Your META Tags

    META tags are hidden code read only by search engine webcrawlers (also called spiders). mainly keyword and description plenty other but optional.

    SEO Tip #5: Use Headings in your page (include keyword)
    Headings play an important role in organizing information, so be sure to include at least H1-H3 when assembling your page.

    SEO Tip #6: Use Title and ALT Attributes

     Ensure images have labels again include keywords

    SEO Tip #7: Nomenclatures

    Whenever possible, you should save your images, media, and web pages with the keywords in the file names. For example, if your keyword phrase is "golf putters" you'll want to save the images used on that page as golf-putters-01.jpg or golf_putters_01.jpg (either will work).

    SEO Tip #8: Create a Site Map Page

    This allows webcrawlers (and users) to quickly and easily find content.

    SEO Tip #9: Include a robots.txt File

    This one command will tell any spider that hits your website to "please feel free to crawl every page of my website".

    SEO Tip #10: Install a sitemap.xml for Google

    Tell Google that you are here and want to seen and found.

     Bonus TIP join discussion forums and social networks and get amongst the communities.

    Search Engine Optimisation is by no means an overnight result don't listen to those who claim otherwise.
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    diycopymachines said:
    well, it`s hard not to agree with the fact that valid code is better. Besides that, you can always make a print off of W3C validation and show it to your clients. And belive me - even if client have no idea what W3c validation is, he is always happy seeing passed validation and that his website is "so good".

    yea, but if you have a site with form, or some other useles content, i think is alweys better not to index it.
    Click to expand...

    In the last two weeks I have used the w3c conversation with clients and won the business, you are right, they knew nothing about it before but conforming to a standard that can almost guarentee your site will look good on everything from Firefox to Chrome to the iPhone is a big plus point.

    I dont value a print out to much (although I havent done this) but I do value the Validation button that you can embed into your site and then show them a validation dynamically happen, its even better if you try to validate another site and it shows hundreds of errors. You can do this for XHTML and CSS validations and now im trying to put these W3C validation buttons on all my sites.

    Unless a page has duplicate content I would leave it to be indexed as even a form has value, IMHO.
     
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  • #18
    Delicious Webdesign said:
    I dont value a print out to much (although I havent done this) but I do value the Validation button that you can embed into your site and then show them a validation dynamically happen, its even better if you try to validate another site and it shows hundreds of errors. You can do this for XHTML and CSS validations and now im trying to put these W3C validation buttons on all my sites.
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    serius companys don't want to have any other "things" on their website, except their own content.
    Delicious Webdesign said:
    Unless a page has duplicate content I would leave it to be indexed as even a form has value, IMHO.
    Click to expand...
    maybe you right.
     
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    Vizcom

  • #20
    I'd also add the following:

    Article writing and releasing via news portals will increase relevant traffic and links. Joining forums your customers use (and adding useful posts) will also help.
    Releasing videos about your business via Tube Mogul and Social Networking websites.
     
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