Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of adjusting your website to achieve the most visitors by utilizing multiple methods of search engine optimization, with use of certain key words and phrases. SEO is a very time consuming and ongoing process, but it is highly important for you to receive the maximum benefit from your website. By hiring a Search Engine Marketing professional to pinpoint and perfect your all important SEO, you can be assured of getting the best results,  thus giving you more time to focus on your business.

Search Engine Optimization includes:

Creation of professional, keyword-rich content that is easy to read; Proper coding of the Title Tags of each page (H1, H2, H3); Proper coding of the Meta content of each page (Keyword, Description, Title); Proper use of alt tags for images; Proper use of link building (one way inbound links); Proper use of page names, titles and content specific pages; Submission to the internet search engines; Inclusions into business related directories for strong in-bound links (Dmoz).

Search Engine Optimization relies on the content of your website. Therefore, it is imperative to create a site with unique, correctly written content to increase your website’s ranking. Search engines ‘crawl’ billions of web pages each month, to determine, through their complex algorithms, which sites will rank near the top. Many factors play a part in this, yet content is the most deciding factor. It is very important to write targeted content, then perform the other optimization steps, including properly coding Page, Title and META tags, submitting to search engines, inclusion into business directories, and also keyword optimization. All of these steps will help to achieve a top website ranking.

Pitfalls of Search Engine Optimization

Although Search Engine Optimization is extremely important for your website to be successful, it still needs to be able to communicate a strong message without confusing the reader. People have become wary of sites that seem more spammy than a source of information. These sites can be ‘over-optimized’ and earn high rankings, but nothing else. If you are receiving good search engine rankings, yet nobody is reading your information or contacting you, your site may be over-optimized. Lots of traffic is good, but not if it leaves you with few business leads. It just can’t be said enough: on the internet, content is king.

10 Great Steps to Optimize your Website1.Dedicate some time to writing really great content.

1. 1. The saying goes that you should write for people first and search engines second. This basically means you should be creating really quality pieces that are useful and engaging for humans because the search engines will recognise your efforts. Your readers will share your work generating additional backlinks, not to mention extra traffic, and search engines will recognise your quality piece because it will flow naturally with not too many keywords (something which is penalized in the post Penguin Update world).
2. 2. Write content people want to share on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social networks. The search engine will read those social signals as a signal of the quality of your domain. You can accelerate the spread of your content on these sites by having an account on these social networks with lots of followers.
3. 3. Consider submitting your content to sites like Reddit, Delicious, Digg and other content aggregators that might gain you a few readers.
4. 4. Go back and SEO rewrite some old content. Chances are you know stuff about search engine optimisation that you didn’t know last year (not to mention changes in SEO best practices since last year). Re-visit some old content and re-write it with your search engine optimisation hat on, updating image attributes, changing keyword density, adding links to your home page and other relevant content on your site. Even consider republishing as a fresh article for extra brownie points with the search engine.

2. Get links to your pages from other trusted websites.

Even if you are new to the web, you have natural links you could try to get. All businesses have suppliers whether they be accountants, solicitors or raw material providers. All these suppliers are bound to have a website, contact them to arrange a link exchange: encourage them to put up a ‘client’ page on their site with a link to your website if you put up a ‘providers’ page on yours. That’s 15 or so backlinks straight away!

3. Complete all image attributes.

Pictures dress up your pages but search engines don’t really know how to deal with them unless you complete all the nitty-gritty details like title, caption, alternate text, description. Be ethical though, don’t use it as an opportunity to cram an extra few keywords onto the page as this will likely have a negative impact on your search engine ranking. Some people search for what they are looking for via Google image search, if you’re image is highly visible then your potential customers will likely visit your page.

4. Diversify anchor text links.

As Aaron Wall pointed out, there needs to be some variations in the text when one creates those blue-highlighted anchor text links. The links on a page are what the search engine spiders follow in determining your website structure. Most likely, the text used in the links are being considered in figuring out what a page is all about. You may also set some key phrases in bold letters. That tells the spiders which terms you’re trying to emphasize, just don’t overdo it.

5. Take note of word count.

Although it’s been a classic rule that “readers online do not read”, it simply doesn’t mean that one has to deprive the online users of good, meaty content. Stick to at least 250 words a page. SEOs know that writing down for an appropriate length of text means being more able to include more related terms for the target keywords.

6. Avoid duplicate content.

The content on your website should be unique from those of other sites on the web.

Page Format Issues Issues 6-10

1. 7. Title Tags

2. The first is your page title. It’s very important to put keywords in your page title; specifically try to get important keywords first and try to limit the overall length of your page title. Well-constructed title tags contain the main keyword for the page. It should contain less than 65 characters with no stop words such as: a, if, the, then, and, an, to, etc. Your title tag should also be limited to the use of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and commas.

3. 8. Header Tags

4. Next, it’s important to look at the header tags on your site-h1, h2, h3, h4 and so on. H1 is the most significant. Make sure you have the most important keyword labelled as h1 tag. This will help you with ranking for your site, especially if someone is searching for that particular key word or phrase.

5. 9. Page Content

6. Next up is the content. You definitely want to put your keywords in the contents somewhere, but the object, though, is to make sure the content is very well written for visitors to your website. You want to insert the keywords for that page only where it makes sense. Page content should have between 300 and 700 words of descriptive content that contains the keywords specified in the keywords meta tag for the page. You also want to try to optimize your URLs. Make sure to include important keywords in the URL.

7. 10. Meta Tags

8. Next are the Meta keywords and Meta description. These are pieces of code behind the scene. The code should look something like this: It should be placed directly under the title tag code<title> Your site tittle</tittle>
   <meta name=”description” content=”your site description”
   <meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword1, keyword2, keyword3″
   Your keywords meta tag should contain between 5-10 keywords or keyword phrases that are also found in page content. Also one more important meta tag is description tag that contains information about the page’s content so you can persuade search engine users to visit your web site. It should have 15-160 characters, remember not to stuffed with keywords.
   #Navigation
   Next is to have proper navigation. Each page of your site should contain links to every other page so search engine spiders can find every page. This is an important step for the proper indexing and page ranking for your site.
   #Site Map
   Next is having a proper site map. It’s important to use two site maps for your website–an XML version and a static version. The XML version can be created by sitemap generators tools such as http://www.xml-sitemaps.com. The static version should be a HTML page that contains links to every other page.== Video ==

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