According to Google, 95% of all online searchers never go past the first
page of results.
Ask yourself these two questions:
1. Is my website on the first page of results for my industry's major
keywords?
If not.
2. What can I do about it?
If your website is not showing up on the first page of Google, Yahoo! or
Bing for your industry's major keywords then your website is not receiving
the traffic that it should be and your business is not acquiring as many
leads as it needs to be.
As far as online searchers are concerned, if they don't see your website on
the first page of results then it might as well not even exist.
Now, I'm sure that isn't the kind of news you want to hear after you
invested all that time and money into your website. Fortunately, there are
things that you can do to improve your website's rankings. Keep in mind that
some of the things we will talk about in this article take time and
patience.
The following information is free advice on how to improve your search
engine rankings.
SEO Beginner Tip 1: Title Tags
Title Tags are one of, if not, the most important on-site SEO component. A
webpage's title tag is located at the top of your internet browser.
A webpage's title tag tells the search engines, and the public, what they
can expect to find on that page. Without proper title tags the odds of your
page being ranked high for your industry's keywords are extremely low.
What you want to do is place your keywords in the title tags of your site's
pages. Make sure that each page on your site has a unique title tag relating
to the content on the page.
SEO Beginner Tip 2: Meta Data
Meta data is information that is hidden in the code of your site and that
the search engines use to find out more information about each page on your
site. This data, while not as important to search rankings as it once was,
is still useful and should be added to each page of your website.
The first piece of meta information that you want to add to each page is
called the "meta description."
The meta description is literally a description of what can be found on the
corresponding page.
Your meta description should not only describe what can be found on the
page, but also include a call to action. Being ranked high in the search
engines is good, but if people are not clicking on your link then it doesn't
matter how high you are ranked. You want to give people a good reason to
visit your site.
Also, make sure that your meta description contains the keywords that you
are optimizing that particular page for.
The next piece of meta information is your "meta keywords." Meta keywords
are not used by Google anymore in regards to how they rank your site. There
is some indication that Bing and Yahoo! still use them, but the weight that
they give them in their search algorithm is very low. We still suggest
placing these keywords in the code of your site because things change so
much with the three major search engines that it is better to be safe than
sorry. We may wake up tomorrow to find out that meta keywords are now
important again and having to go through all your website's pages again to
add them could take a lot of time. It's better to add them now and not have
to worry about it later.
Your meta keywords should contain all the keywords related to your SEO
campaign and all industry keywords that are related to that particular page
regardless if you are optimizing for them or not.
SEO Beginner Tip 3: Internal Linking
Internal linking is not only helpful for search engine rankings, but it also
allows your visitors to find other pages on your site that may not be
reachable through your main navigation or easily found. Internal linking can
also pass along link juice from one page to another on your site, which can
help with rankings.
You want to link the pages of your site together using anchor text links. An
anchor text link is a link that uses a keyword instead of, for example,
"click here."
Anchor text links tell the search engines what the page that the link leads
to is about. You want to make sure that you use this technique to link the
pages of your sites together. For example, if you were to write a blog post
talking about link building techniques, you may link the phrase "link
building techniques" to a corresponding page because you would want that
page to be found for the keyword phrase "link building techniques."
SEO Beginner Tip 4: Content
Content is extremely important. Search engines love content. The content on
your site needs to be unique, well written and contain useful information.
It also needs to contain the keywords which you are optimizing for, and
which are relevant to each particular page. Your should also be adding to
the content of your site on a consistent basis. Stagnant sites, ones that
never add content, for the most part, will not rank high. The easiest way to
continually add content to your site is by adding a blog and posting at
least once a month. The more often you post the better.
SEO Beginner Tip 5: Back Links
Back links, at this point, are still the most important off-site factor when
it comes to where your site ranks. Gaining back links, however, is a
time-consuming process and something that needs to constantly be done in
order to not only achieve high rankings, but also to maintain the rankings
you have already achieved.
A few of the many different ways to gain back links are blogging, business
directory submissions, article marketing, press releases, commenting in
forums and on other blogs, creating content on your site that people want to
link to as well as simply asking other webmasters for links. The one thing
you should never do is pay for links. All three major search engines frown
upon that and doing so will get your site penalized in the rankings.
The above tips are very basic and meant for beginners.
my motto is "Keep it simple" and "don't leave anything for tomorrow that can
be done today."
If you have any questions or comments please contact me.
Regards Gerald
Website: http://www.webcraft.ws
E-mail: gerald@webcraft.ws
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