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Meta Tag Search Engine Optimization

Meta Tag Search Engine Optimization While quality content is important for retaining visitors, search engine optimization is essential to drive traffic to your website in the first place. Since over 80% of all web traffic comes from search engines, it is crucial to optimize your website so that it appears among the top results for searches on keywords related to your site. Various factors, such as page content and link popularity, are weighed by the search engine's algorithm to arrive at the order in which it lists sites on the search result pages. Ideally, you want your web site to rank among the top ten results for keywords that you are targeting (keyword in this article refers to both keywords and key phrases). To improve your search placement, you may have to sacrifice some visual aesthetics to ensure that your HTML code is search engine friendly. This section discusses some page elements that influence your search engine ranking. 1. The <H

What might low-quality content pages contain?

What might low-quality content pages contain? For the most part, the type of low-quality content pages I'm talking about here simply don't contain much information at all. They may only have a few words or sentences outside of the global template of the page. Or they may contain information, but it's very similar to what's on other pages of the website. Most of the time these low-quality pages been dynamically generated by whatever content management system (CMS) the site is using. This is especially true of blog sites using WordPress or other blog software... -- 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 Twitter: WebcraftGuru Facebook: Webcraft Guru

How to Create the Best Landing page for your Website

How to Create the Best Landing page for your Website Make your landing pages count by using some basic optimization techniques, such as the following: * Instantly conveying the value your site offers and creating strong incentive to contact you by providing a clear title and description and an enticing layout. * Focus your visitors, every chance you can get, to contact you by providing links, images linking to the contact us page; you may even provide free informational materials to get them to complete the contact us form. * Always include your social media sharing links, encouraging visitors to spread the word that your website has something valuable to offér. * Beware of what information you request in your contact form. You cannot expect them to fill out a complete page of information and be willing to do so. Just keep it simple, but be sure to obtain the important information needed to contact them. Not only do you need to op

How to Blog and get returns

How to Blog and get returns 1. Write Compelling Headlines Your headline is how people decide if they're going to read your blog post of not. So make sure that it reaches out and grabs hold of your reader. 2. Capture Your Reader's Attention in the First Paragraph Your first paragraph should draw in your reader and entice them to keep reading. Keep it simple, snappy and sassy. 3. Keep Sentences Short Short sentences stand out, are simple to read and balance out longer sentences. Utilize short sentences throughout your blog for some added pizzazz. -- 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 Twitter: WebcraftGuru Facebook: Webcraft Guru