Tips for SEO

[gerryonline]

Hey guys, I am thinking of starting a website but I want to make sure it is designed with SEO in mind, but I dont know much about it.

Can anyone suggest any basic tips to get my site a good ranking in search engines?

[twenty-eleven]

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

should give you an idea

[escentre]

hi gerryonline
you can be a forum member of the www.submitexpress.com (http://www.submitexpress.com) I'm sure there many members there that can help you

[intergise]

There's really two important areas of search engine optimisation (SEO): onpage and offpage.

Onpage is where you are at now - ensuring that the code behind the site is correct and supports any ongoing optimisation

The first step is to do some keyword research and determine a list of keywords that your customers will use to search for your product/service. It's a bit of balancing act, selecting keywords that are relevant but not too competitive. Not relevant and you wont attract the right customers, too competitive and you'll get lost in the crowd.

The next step is good content. Content is king when it comes to websites. You need to have a good amount of text on each page which should include the keywords where appropriate.

Then it is ensuring the title, description and keywords head tags are complete and optimised for each page. They should be different for each page and reflect that page's content. Don't forget the alt and title attributes in the body tags.

After the site has been launched there's the ongoing offpage optimisation.

Register the site with search engines and directories. Then start link building and content management programs. The more relevant inbound links you have to your site the more useful the site will appear, the higher it will rank. Also keep updating and expanding the content. As I mentioned before content is king.

There's no quick fix for SEO, it's a lot of individual steps that together help promote your site.

There's a SEO whitepaper (http://www.intergise.com/services/search-engine-optimisation.php) on my website which provides more detail on what's involved that you may find useful.

[Slade]

There's really two important areas of search engine optimisation (SEO): onpage and offpage.

Onpage is where you are at now - ensuring that the code behind the site is correct and supports any ongoing optimisation

The first step is to do some keyword research and determine a list of keywords that your customers will use to search for your product/service. It's a bit of balancing act, selecting keywords that are relevant but not too competitive. Not relevant and you wont attract the right customers, too competitive and you'll get lost in the crowd.

The next step is good content. Content is king when it comes to websites. You need to have a good amount of text on each page which should include the keywords where appropriate.

Then it is ensuring the title, description and keywords head tags are complete and optimised for each page. They should be different for each page and reflect that page's content. Don't forget the alt and title attributes in the body tags.

After the site has been launched there's the ongoing offpage optimisation.

Register the site with search engines and directories. Then start link building and content management programs. The more relevant inbound links you have to your site the more useful the site will appear, the higher it will rank. Also keep updating and expanding the content. As I mentioned before content is king.

There's no quick fix for SEO, it's a lot of individual steps that together help promote your site.

There's a SEO whitepaper (http://www.intergise.com/services/search-engine-optimisation.php) on my website which provides more detail on what's involved that you may find useful.

Great post intergise!

[intergise]

Glad to be of help.

[HWT]

You run into the 'content is king' issue a lot when you have a site that is very low on text and high on graphics. A picture may tell a thousand words, but it doesn't get indexed all that well by Google. Also makes for incredibly badly targeted google adsense and a low clickthru rate - my traffic and the rule of thumb of 2% clickthru rate says my site should be making a few $100 a month in adsense revenue .... it doesn't, and sadly there isn't much I can do about that.

[intergise]

Not sure what type of site you've got HWT but could you add text descriptions to the images?

[HWT]

Been there, done that, but about half of the site traffic is to a dictionary and alphabet, and when you have a picture of a crocodile there's not much to say except ... C is for crocodile. Most of the site is images with a sub < 10 word description per image. Adsense has a very hard time with it. I started a more text-heavy blog to counter it a little.

[Heath Sanchez]

It's great that you are thinking about SEO before you even start the site - good on you!

Have you considered including a blog? A blog can add fresh, regular content to your site each day that will be full of relevant keywords. Each new blog post you right will be an extra few chances that your site to show up in the Search Engines.

Also, if the blog is good enough - people will naturally link to your content so you will be enjoying the on-page and off-page factors of SEO at the same time! You'll be able to attract some very targeted users who are interested in your topic by doing this.

If you do include a blog, I recommend Wordpress with all of the SEO friendly plugins installed - then just keep putting out good content!

Hope this helps! If you would like to hear my SEO tutorial in audio format, check out the link in my sig.

[gerryonline]

Thanks for all the feedback.

If I was to sum up what you have said, I need to;
- Have incoming and outgoing links to and from popular sites
- unique content that is regularily updated (maybe a blog)
- descriptions on my images
- make sure I use my keywords wiseley on all pages indexed..

Anything I have missed?

[Heath Sanchez]

Also:

- Keywords in your Title

- For your H1 header tag within the page HTML, make sure that you contain
the same keywords that are in your title.

- Also use descriptive sub-headers (H2 or H3) with your keywords in them
before every few paragraphs. This improves usability and helps the search
engines to know what the page is about.

- Use bullets, italics <em> and bolding <strong> for your keywords to break up your site content and make it easier to read.

- Write your website copy for humans. Make sure you don’t overuse your
keywords just to get high search rankings. Search engines don’t like pages
that look ‘spammy’, so make sure you write naturally.

[gerryonline]

Do submitting sitemaps to google help much at all?

[intergise]

Protocol sitemaps help search engines to properly index your site and anything that does that has to be a good thing.

How much it helps is difficult to answer but I think it's like much of SEO, another small step that together sould combine to promote your site.

[HMcIntyre]

When you're creating the site title (by that I mean the part between the <title> tags in your header, put your main keyword first.

For example, if you're "Bob's Building Business" based in Brisbane, your site title should read: Brisbane Bulders - Bob's Building Business. That way the company name is still included, but the first part of the title has to be the main keyword for SEO.

[eversuccesseful]

I wonder if you could write a quick demo of what you mean as I can't follow what you mean

sorry just a sixty five yr old man that took up computers because they fasinated me and look at the trouble I get in cheers Peter

[annieshark]

ARTICLE MARKETING!!!!!! start with goarticles.com, and ezinearticles.com. my two bests! :)

[eversuccesseful]

thank you Annie Iwill try them and see what I can learn
cheers Peter

[Brendan]

A great start is to get advice from the search engine themselves!

Google has recently released a basic guide to SEO that is absolutely excellent for anyone starting out.

You can grab it here - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/seo-starter-guide-updated.html

[barysiddle]

Well there are so many things in the SEO and if you want to follow that then try to read maximum blogs regarding the SEO so from that find the idea of the tips and rules. I am always looking for the new guidelines in the field of SEO, as I want to make my Site better to make the current SEO terms.

[dipper]

Thanks guys some great tips and suggestions here! :-)

[Karl Thew]

I have been achieving fairly good results by following the suggestions outlined by Intergise for onpage SEO, and have also been link building. There are many good blogs, and websites such as Intergise's which will explain these methods in more detail. I have found that reading SEO blogs has been the best source of info for me.

[disolmodo78]

Hire professional service to get desired results. There are many web designer who posses sufficient on page optimization knowledge. SEO friendly designs are imperative nowadays.

[devinemarko]

The most valuable advice you can give, however, is to stay away from blackhat SEO. It may be tempting, but not worth it. It can be easy, but worth it. If you are caught you are finished. Fair play and the search engines with the same currency.

[Paj]

Hi,

Just my 2 bob. Content is King but also remember to update the content. I have a friend who uses java/php and sever robot to update his home page every week. What he has done is create a database with different variations of text for his html pages. Once a week the robot kicks in and selects different text from the database for the html page and recreates it automatically. This looks good for the google spiders etc (updated content). Neat trick, take a little time to setup but now runs automatically

Peter

[simjenweb]

there many websites ,blogs , community forums to know about SEO

[alistaire123]

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[naxens]

Thanks for shareing

[seo]

Thanks for all the feedback.

If I was to sum up what you have said, I need to;
- Have incoming and outgoing links to and from popular sites
- unique content that is regularily updated (maybe a blog)
- descriptions on my images
- make sure I use my keywords wiseley on all pages indexed..

Anything I have missed?

Incoming links are a heavyweight as far as search engine signals go. Outgoing links are not, so if you don't need to link out naturally don't push yourself to do so. Unique content is a must, however don't force yourself to regularly update content unless it's meaningful to your website.

Frequent content publishing will send bots more frequently to your website (we refer to this as QDF or query deserves freshness) however it will not directly affect your rankings. This can be useful for eCommerce sites which have indexation problem or naturally news sites. Fresher content also appears in various level of temporal filtering in Google (latest, last 7 days, last month, anytime).

Descriptions on your images are important and handy for accessibility.

As far as keyword targeting goes watch out for industry only jargon and try to embed terms that your customers would search for and understand.

When it comes to on-site optimisation page's TITLE tag is an absolute heavyweight (much like inbound links from off-site factors).

In summary, if you want a page to rank place the keyword in your title, headings, text, image description (if applicable) and get some quality links to that page or encourage people to link to it. Relevant links from trusted resources are highly valuable. When people link to you it's better that they use descriptive text which describes your content in the link (anchor text) than saying "click here".

[HWT]

however don't force yourself to regularly update content unless it's meaningful to your website.

Frequent content publishing will send bots more frequently to your website (we refer to this as QDF or query deserves freshness) however it will not directly affect your rankings.

I have to strongly, strongly disagree with this. I stopped updating a site for a while (about 2 months) and google simply dropped the site completely and my traffic dropped to zero. As soon as I started adding new pages again, the traffic came back. Every time I leave it more than 2 weeks without putting on new content the same thing happens. The more frequently I put new content on, the more traffic I get.

I've come to the conclusion that the single most important thing I can possibly do for this website is to add new content. Nothing else matters.

[seo]

I've come to the conclusion that the single most important thing I can possibly do for this website is to add new content. Nothing else matters.

What type of website is this?

[RyanChadwick]

GerryOnline,

It's great that you're doing the research, just be careful you don't fall into analysis paralysis.

My advice would be not to worry too much about SEO right now. If this is your first time running a website, which it sounds like it is, then you have several things to learn about (SEO being one of them).

Aim to get version 1.0 of your website up and running ASAP with the aim of incrementally improving it over the life of the website. You'll learn a lot quicker by just diving in and doing it.

[cherylfoster]

Tips of SEO are listed below.

1 Geographical knowledge of the market and ensure that your domain has the lowest correct.
2 Include the keyword in the domain name.
3 Create a lot about your products as content or subject as you can.
4 After you start the site content is keyword search.
5 Decide on 4 or 5 words of the initial use of the main sub-sections.
6 Sit down and draw your navigation system.
7 The structure of each page separately.

[SarahSEO]

4 Tips :
1. Become acquainted with how many other search engines are out there. After all, you might just know about Google. Do some research. Productive SEO definitely demands some research on your part as a internet marketer. The more you know about the search engines the better off you tend to be when preparing to optimize for them. Some examples of search engines in addition to Google consist of Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. You may well be impressed by what the other search engines have to offer.
2. Take an inventory of which search engines you will decide to optimize for. After that, make a listing of prevalent factors spiders seek out among the various search engines that you may optimize for. By doing this you can be certain you are pleasing multiple search engines based on what they are crawling for.
3. Determine how individuals within your market are searching and then discover which search engines appeal to them. This is likely the number one place that you’ll reach the the greater part of your target audience so lean toward optimizing for that specific search engine. This will, again, involve some more research yet it ought to be details you have already attained regarding your target audience. See how Mike Filsaime has done his research to maintain success in this Mike Filsaime review.
4. Make sure you are delivering high quality subject matter. This means that your subject matter presented matches the keywords and phrases or keyword family that you’ve selected. All search engines will be crawling for relevant material. Check out how Russell Brunson utilizes this technique in the Russell Brunson review.
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[EasyWebAdmin]

There are a bunch of really good SEO tips here before my post so please don't start with this one.

Here's a couple of extra pointers...

Make sure your pages conform to your chosen doctype standards (html and any css).

Also, you can not effectively SEO your own site with out having a way of viewing how hits arrive at your website. StatCounter is free, very cool and recommended.

View the link from my home page titled: Website Tools (online) to get at all these things (and a couple of other just-in-time online SEO tools to play with).

Steve
WebsiteAdministrator.com.au

[vancuper]

Some Best Tips for SEO are: Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites, Add an RSS feed to your blog, Use PPC search engine advertising, Add a link in your email signature to your website.

[Samantha Baker]

I agree wordpress is good and SEO friendly plugins installed.

[wendymiller]

Content is king, so make sure you have good content, well written and unique focus on the main keyword or keyword phrase.If content is king then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks using the keyword phrase as the link. Remember, if there is no good reason, logic for that site to link to you, you do not want the link.

[adam23jones]

Hi,

Thank you, I'm glad it has been helpful! Looking forward to getting the new manuals published, then I'll be working on a more advanced guide for tweaking & SEO.

[Anthony]

If you are planning to build new website then you just need to take care of basic things like writing meta tag use of anchor text and proper inter linking of the inner pages. While writing image name use name rather than image 0 or 1.

[PaulClark]

Well for starters
you need to make sure you have the keyword you are tryin to rank in your domain
for example if you were trying to rank for "cats and dogs"
aim for the "catsanddogs.com" then .net .org
and if all of those are taking try "catsanddogsxxx.com"
of course you'll need to change those xs to another word lol :D

[monikaesco]

content is king so u put unique content for your website is very helpfull for seo part .

[AlbionColt]

Hey friends I would like to share some tips for SEO that for a good work office space should also be spacious as well as the environment should also be good.

[jatinbata]

Thanks for sharing such a nice tips

[robertcullen]

there are lots of techniques or strategy to have traffic on your site, one of this strategy is to optimize your site in search engine.
typically a Web Master has much knowledge to have traffic on your site.
they use different strategy such as social media, youtube, blog commenting and whole lot more

[mturner]

Ok Gerry,

Here in a nutshell, 5 essential tips for SEO:

1) Put yourself in the mind of your potential clients and imagine what keywords they will type into google in order to find you. - do this for 1 hour - write every search term down.

2) decide on the best 8 phrases and then optimise different pages for different phrases

3) Ask people you know to link to your pages

4) make sure all your <alt> tags have the phrases in them, and you have proper meta tags.

5) keep on asking people to link to you - add a button on your site so people can get the code to link to you

And voila! Your #1 in Google !

[netneeds]

The most important aspect of every web site is, "What will set it apart from all of the others?" The answer is critical to building the content and the SEO.

When I meet a potential client I show them a chart about the various ways, with impacts, to promote their web sites. They love the chart and immediately want to take ownership of their online advertising when their website eventually goes live. Unfortunately, I can't share the chart because it's my own IP but there is an online advertising intro on my web site if you want to get the idea.

Cheers
Rob
Netneeds

[mturner]

Well for starters
you need to make sure you have the keyword you are tryin to rank in your domain
for example if you were trying to rank for "cats and dogs"
aim for the "catsanddogs.com" then .net .org
and if all of those are taking try "catsanddogsxxx.com"
of course you'll need to change those xs to another word lol :D

Google has recently downgraded this in it's ranking algorithm. It still counts but much less than before. Much more imprtant is keyword linkd from relevant sites.

[rachaelcater]

Thanks for the tips guys. I can definitely use some of these on my fashion label.

[rachaelcater]

Thanks for the tips guys. I can definitely use some of these on my fashion label.

[herunjasimeru]

To get better idea you can visit to top website of targeted keyword. There you can get various ideas.

[tajtour]

Always go with white hat SEO

[JacksonRiddle]

Like some other people have mentioned, having your site on a CMS platform like Wordpress will have great onpage SEO benefits. As a result your offpage work will have a greater effect if your actual website is set up properly. Generally I help my clients redesign their site before I begin any SEO campaign to make sure that it is much more cost effective to achieve page one rankings.

[lancejeffersons]

The first step for your site is really do a great work on your on page optimization before doing off page..Make your site search engine friendly

[robyray]

You should always focus on content..I feel like content is king always,..Content can make you reach top of the search engine..If you have more pages als it would an added advantage

[hirephpexpert]

SEO is one of best technique to achieve high rank position of your website in the Google or other search engines. Now organic seo technique is widely using for keyword ranking.

[lancejeffersons]

Research on your top competitor and check where do they get their backlinks and what keywords they are ranking..

[robyray]

Competitor keyword analysis is a key always...

[smithzenri]

SEO is stands for Search Engine Optimization. It used to increase visibility of site on search result page. It also used to promote business and getting high traffic and high PR. SEO provides some techniques to make popular site, some of them are widely used like Social bookmarking, blog commenting, forum posting, article.

[lancejeffersons]

SEO is stands for Search Engine Optimization. It used to increase visibility of site on search result page. It also used to promote business and getting high traffic and high PR. SEO provides some techniques to make popular site, some of them are widely used like Social bookmarking, blog commenting, forum posting, article.

Yah, we all know that..But this thread is about tips for SEO..You just explain what is SEO all about..You don't share some tips about SEO..

Another tip:
Update your website/blog once or thrice a week..Post unique, fresh, quality and informative contents..

[ryzeup45@gmail.com]

search engine optimization are the technique or practice to attract traffic from search engine like yahoo, Google, Microsoft etc which is mainly working on on page optimization and off page optimization. on page optimization where you makes changes in your website to improve your ranking in search engine. whereas off page optimization is whatever work done beside website like link building. The appropriate combination and implementation of on page and off page optimization would give desire result. your fist step would be to do some research and find right keywords for your web page to optimize. for that use tools like googleadword, insight etc. then content, title, header, description, anchor text should be taken care of. you also need to work on of page optimization. where you see to get quality backlinks. for that you can use directory submission, article submission, blong comments, social bookmarking etc.

[TracyKnox]

As pwer my opinion the initial step is to do some market analysis and figure out a collection of key terms that your clients will use to search for your product/service. It's a bit of controlling act, choosing key terms that are appropriate but not too very competitive. Not appropriate and you probably won't appeal to the right clients, too very competitive and you'll get missing in the group.

[Brandon]

First and foremost the most essential step you should take is to create superior, different content for your website. Search engines love quality different content and if updated daily they will crawl your site frequently. Your fresh content will notice other websites to link to your site thus giving you adored one way inbound links.

[melonsmartin]

Over time, it has become a good way for companies to make and the people targeted and direct contact. Basically it is a very fast and effective form of viral marketing. Those with a good reputation, not great for others, this is great for.