Basic SEO

[manju]

1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. The title tag is located right at the top of your document within the head tags. Inserting a keyword or key phrase will greatly improve your chances of bringing targeted traffic to your site.

Make sure that the title tag contains text which a human can relate to. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result. Treat it like a headline.

2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.

3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.

Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.

Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.

4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.

I always use the headline of my pages as the title tag to help the robots know exactly what my page is about. A good place to insert the headline is within the h1 tag. So the headline is the same as the title tag text.

5. Do not spam the description or keyword meta tag by stuffing meaningless keywords or even spend too much time on this tag. SEO pros all agree that these tags are not as important today as they once were. I just place my headline once within the keywords and description tags.

[janicejan]

Thanks for the info, in addition we should also pay enough attention to our content, this are the most effective way to increase traffic on our websites, also our websites should be search engine friendly, this way it will be easier for google bots to access our websites and get indexed in SE quickly..

[ellehc]

This one would be a big help especially to those who are new in this field! Thanks!

[2fk]

Those are some of the good ways one must learn in on page optimization in order to avoid being penalized by SE's due over spamming the metas and the title tags as well.

[richard]

Nice ..Easy 2 understand and easy 2 do the things

Thanks for sharing

[jamie11]

Good and easy tips for basic SEO.

[geyser]

In addition these are a must to check!!

Keywords and phrases
The first step that you need to take to optimize your site is selecting keywords and phrases that best suit what your site is all about. A keyword best describes what the content of your web page is. For example if your website is about cooking, then the best keyword to use would be 'cooking'. When drafting the content of your website, always make sure that you concentrate on just a few important keywords and phrases, this is because keyword phrases play a very important role in optimizing you site.

Meta Tags
Meta tags are an HTML code that is found between the < HEAD> and < /HEAD> tags. These tags contain a description of your site and are found in the search engine results when you key in a certain word or phrase. When creating Meta tags, be sure to focus on what your website is specifically all about. Do not generalize. Also make sure that your Meta tags include your most important keywords, so that your customers will know exactly what your website is offering.

Image Alt Tags
An Image Alt tag comes after a website's graphic address or URL in your HTML code. To fully optimize your graphics and your website make sure that you insert a readable keyword phrase within the Img Alt tags.

Title Tags
The Title tag of your website should always contain the most important keyword phrase of your site. This is because it will aid you in getting higher search engine ranking results. Type your key word phrase in lower and use only the most relevant keyword phrases.

Text
Since your text plays a key role in determining your website's page ranking, it is thus of vital significance to optimizing your website. Remember that when composing your text for your site it should contain plenty of important key words and phrases used in different ways. Also keep in mind that your keywords and phrases should appear at least three times, but not more than seven times in your text.

Hope it helps..

[userinsight]

Wow! Where'd you pull that article from Geyser?? Do you have a link of the original source?

[tan]

"2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better."

And what is the difference between links and anchor links for SEO?

[2fk]

Wow! Where'd you pull that article from Geyser?? Do you have a link of the original source?

I think this is the original source of that article :http://www.smallbusinessbible.org/howoptimize_website.html

[fast1]

@geyser informative, but additional to this is the content is the king followed by bookmarking, directory and most of all and very effective to indexes in search engine is your quality techniques in onpage optimization.


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[Prontoex]

really a good post for beginners. Thank you for sharing

[cygnet]

That is very important information... & all the points are very clearly mentioned in that information.. So thanks for that..

[kenie]

1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. The title tag is located right at the top of your document within the head tags. Inserting a keyword or key phrase will greatly improve your chances of bringing targeted traffic to your site.

Make sure that the title tag contains text which a human can relate to. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result. Treat it like a headline.

2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.

3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.

Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.

Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.

4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.

I always use the headline of my pages as the title tag to help the robots know exactly what my page is about. A good place to insert the headline is within the h1 tag. So the headline is the same as the title tag text.

5. Do not spam the description or keyword meta tag by stuffing meaningless keywords or even spend too much time on this tag. SEO pros all agree that these tags are not as important today as they once were. I just place my headline once within the keywords and description tags.

Thanks for the tips!

[ContentSpooling]

And I think that's very important for our site. Thanks mate.

[rajput_jitendra]

Thank you for take a time and write very excellent post to us.