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How to make Google (and your visitors) love your site
If you are at all serious about succeeding online we highly recommend reading this guide.
Based on Google's Webmaster Guidelines, these ten fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization really do work.
And... they are easily within reach of most website owners with little or no technical skill.
And... they are easily within reach of most website owners with little or no technical skill.
Let's get started!
1. XML Sitemap Submission
Technical Skill Requirement: None
Difficulty: Easy
Submitting
an XML Sitemap, also know as a Google Sitemap, is the best way of being
sure search engines have information about your entire website.
XML
Sitemaps have replaced the older technique of "submitting to search
engines" by filling out a form on each search engine's submission page.
They are are the best, fastest and only guaranteed method of informing
search engines about every page of your site.
Your "Get In Google"
tool automates Sitemap creation and submission to each search engine.
Updating and resubmitting your sitemap on a weekly basis will increase
its effectiveness even more.
2. Building Links
Technical Skill Requirement: None
Difficulty: Ranges from Easy to Difficult
One
of the most important elements (of the more than 200) that Google
considers when ranking your site is the number and quality of links
pointing to it. The general idea is that the more sites indicating that
your content is valuable by linking to it, the better. As long as these
links come from sites deemed to be of quality or authority (high search
rank), the better your own search rank will be.
Be very careful about buying links!
You can be penalized for participating in most link buying schemes, or
having links from sites that Google has blocked, such as sites involved
in link selling, sites with malware, or any other activity in violation
of Google's guidelines.
A common legitimate link building activity
is directory submission. Submission can range from just your name and
homepage URL to an extensive business profile. Always make sure any
content you post to directories is unique, readable and human friendly.
Never submit strings of comma-separated keywords or duplicate content
that will be seen as spam.
It is always best to list your site only in the most important, authoritative and reputable directories.
Avoid the "list your site in thousands of directories" offers. Most are
a waste of time. Not all directories are equal, and many of the
directories that some online services offer to post your site to are
completely useless, or could even be on Google's black list.
There are many other ways to quickly develop high quality links that work,
including: professionally syndicated press releases, syndicated
business listing services, submitting articles to or commenting on blogs
and forums, starting your own blog, getting local government (.gov),
educational (.edu), or business association links by working with those
organizations, submitting product reviews and answers on sites like
Yahoo! Answers and writing submissions in related forums and user
groups.
Another important link building activities is
participating in Social Networking activates such as Facebook, LinkedIn
and Twitter.
However, by far the best way to get quality links
to your site is by writing good content. If it's original, informative
and interesting people will want to link to. If you haven't got the
skill or time necessary to write great keyword focused content and work
to get it posted on important sites, check out our Top Listing Program. It's an effective, low-cost alternative to trying to do it all yourself.
3. Learn a Little Simple Basic HTML
Technical Skill Requirement: Low
Difficulty: Low
HTML
is a language used by web browsers to dynamically format web pages.
Many important SEO techniques require only very simple edits to your
site's HTML code. Knowing what to change and how to adjust your HTML
code has a huge effect on your SEO and search listings. Don't worry;
learning the basics of simple HTML is not difficult. (However, if you
are using a web designer or outside web developer to implement these
simple changes to your site, keep in mind that they are just that:
simple. They should not take too long to complete once you know how to
tell them exactly what to do.)
W3School's free tutorials are all you need: ( http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp )
4. Choose the Right Keywords or Key-Phrases to Target
Technical Skill Requirement: None
Difficulty: Easy
Choose
two or three highly targeted keywords or key phrases for each page of
your site, including your Home Page. (In the next step you will learn
how to produce the content of your site based on them)
Choose
very carefully because keywords you think might be perfect may not be
what people actually search for. For example, never use general keywords
such as "travel" or "vacation." Very large, well-known sites usually
rank the highest for general words such as these, and are extremely
difficult, if not impossible, to out-rank in search listings for these
words. You will enjoy much better results by targeting less competitive,
more specific and narrowly targeted keywords or phrases.
The Best Keyword Research Tools Are Free!
Google's two free keyword tools listed below are a great way to discover keywords that may be worth targeting in your content.
Google's two free keyword tools listed below are a great way to discover keywords that may be worth targeting in your content.
5. Create Fresh and Unique Content Using Your Keywords
Technical Skill Requirement: None
Difficulty: Low to Moderate
Publishing
keyword-rich original content is absolutely crucial to ranking highly.
All you need to do is transform your list of carefully selected keywords
into pages of unique web content. Write pages of at least 200 words of
unique text, incorporating one, two, or at the most three of your chosen
keywords into the copy of each page. Your home page may have less
content, but should target your most important two or three keywords.
What
does unique text mean? It means that you produce original content. It
means you haven't simply copied verbatim from other websites or blogs.
If you don't have enough of your own ideas about content look at what
other have written, then re-write it making it better. You can make it
shorter and more concise, or longer and more detailed. Just don't copy
it.
Search engines must find and "read" keyword rich copy on
your pages so they can properly classify or "index" your site. The
frequency (or density) of keyword usage is also important. For best
results repeat each keyword or phrase, or variations of the phrase, 2 to
4 times within your copy (depending on its length). Be sure to put it
at least once in a headline using the <H1> or <H2> HTML
code. More is not better. A higher keyword density than this can often
cause search engines to penalizing your site. Never use "invisible text"
or text on your Web pages that is the same color as the background. It
will also result in search engine penalties.
Placing keywords on your website:
Your
website content should be written first for real people, and second for
search engine crawlers. For your website to be successful you need to
keep both in mind. Keywords are important for both audiences. They help
real people skim your page, and help the search engines figure out what
your page is about.
Writing marketing copy for your website
doesn't need to be difficult and it surely doesn't need to be lengthy.
In fact, keep three simple things in mind, along with your keywords, and
it'll practically write itself: Benefits, Benefits, Benefits!
Don't
just tell the customer you have a great widget at a great price. Tell
them what that widget will do to make their lives better, easier, safer,
more important. If it saves them time, improves results, etc. - tell
them that, and briefly tell them how. Show then the Benefits, not the
"features."
Always tell the truth. You can say anything ,but if
its intentionally misleading, your profits and your business are going
to be short-lived. Make your website copy sizzle, and make it sell, but
always make it honest.
Make it personal: all about You and Your.
It might not seem like much, but if you can drop ?your? into your copy,
it?s sure to draw the customer in, whether they realize it or not.
Before
you put up new content on your site, read it and then read it again out
loud. If you can, have someone else look it over. There?s nothing worse
publishing great copy that?s tarnished by typos.
Nine good places to use your keywords:
1. In your page title. This is what appears at the top of the browser window when someone visits your website. (See step 8 below)
2. In your page description. Visitors don't see this, but the
search engines do. This is the two lines of text that appear below the
main title in search engine results. (See step 9 below)
3. In your page URL.
Use keywords, not strings of alphanumeric characters, in the URLs of
each page of your site. Search engines will index them much better and
display them higher in search results. Creating page URLs with keywords
helps those pages rank higher. Simply insert the linked-to page's
targeted keyword phrase into the hyperlink whenever possible. Here is a
good example from Allrecipes.com: Allrecipes.com/Recipe/Fettuccini-with-Salsa-Cruda-and-Feta/Detail.aspx
4. In the headings and subheadings. Make it easy for your readers to very quickly see what your page is about by using lots of headings and subheadings.
5. In the first sentence and your first paragraph. Make sure your important keywords appear first -- the earlier, the better.
6. In the last paragraph. Also use your keywords at the end of your content.
7. Elsewhere in the page copy.
When keywords fall naturally throughout your article, consider bolding
them. But don't go overboard with it or it will become a distraction.
However, if it makes the article easier to skim, bold your keywords.
8. In your text links. Instead of linking to words like "click here," use your keywords in your link anchor text.
9. In the ALT tags on images. The
search engines can't understand images. With every image, include a bit
of text called the ALT tag and use your keywords in that text. (See
step 10 below)
6. Title Tag Optimization
Technical Skill Requirement: Low
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
This
is what the title tag on Dell.com looks like: <META NAME="TITLE"
CONTENT="Dell - Official Website - Learn about Dell's laptops, desktops,
monitors, printers plus computer electronics & accessories. ">
HTML
title tags are critical because search engines use them when deciding
what a web page is about. Using descriptive words and phrases in your
Title tags helps both people and search engines better understand the
focus of the page. Include your most important keywords in this tag.
Space is limited (use a maximum of 69 total characters) so don't include
your company name unless you really think it needs to be there (as in
our example from Dell). Do not use the Title tag to display irrelevant
information such as "Home Page." Think of it more as a "Title Keyword
Tag" and include words that users would likely search for to find the
product or service or other information on that page.
Lengths of Page Title (taken from your Title Tag) Displayed in Search Engines (including spaces):
Google displays up to 69 characters, Yahoo displays up to 72 characters, Bing displays up to 69 characters
Google displays up to 69 characters, Yahoo displays up to 72 characters, Bing displays up to 69 characters
The Title tag is the most important tag to optimize on your webpage because:
- Search engines place a lot of importance on the words used in the title tag when determining your page ranking and keyword indexing.
- They are used as the title for your search engine results listings, giving a critical "first impression" to search engine users.
- They are used as the bookmark heading when someone bookmarks a page in your site.
Good Title Tags Made Simple
Here's a simple method for writing title tags that will boost your rankings:
- Start the title with the top keyword or phrase for which you are trying to get high rankings. Be sure that the keyword is well used on your webpage so the Title Tag is clearly relevant to the page as a whole.
- Insert a hyphen or double-colon to separate the initial keyword from what comes next to help make the title more readable.
- Then describe the webpage in five words or less while using all or part of your target keyword or phrase again.
7. Description Tag Optimization
Technical Skill Requirement: Low
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
The
Meta Description Tag is the next most important tag, since search
engines frequently use it as the description for your page's listing.
The content in your description tags often appears as the "snippets" of
text underneath the blue Title tag headline in search results pages. A
well written description tag increases the chance that your search
listing will be clicked on.
Here is an example: a keyword search for "big mac" produces the following result as the third organic listings:
By
visiting the McDonalds.com home page and viewing the page source, you
can see that the snippet above simply reuses the first 149 characters of
the page's meta description:
<meta name="description"
content="McDonald's in the USA: Food and nutrition info, franchise
opportunities, job and career info, restaurant locations, promotional
information, history, innovation and more." />
Here is what you should do to optimize your description tags:
- Create a unique meta description tag for each page that uses its keywords.
- Create "meaty" description tags that accurately describe the page and product to search users and respect the character limits noted below.
- Include words that users would most likely search for to find the product, service or information on that page.
Meta
Description Lengths Displayed in Search Engines (including spaces)
Google displays up to 156 characters Yahoo displays up to 161 characters
Bing displays up to 185 characters
Good Description Tags Made Simple
Begin the description tag with the same keyword phrase you used in the
title tag, followed by a dash or double colon. Then use it to start a
sentence describing your webpage in 10 to 15 words.
Here are a few guidelines to follow when writing description tags:
- The entire tag should be no longer than 22 words (156 characters).
- It should briefly describe the webpage and entice users to click on your listing.
- The keyword should be used no more than two times in total.
Here's a simple layout for writing description tags that will boost your rankings:
[Your Keyword or Key Phrase] - [A Brief Description of Page]
If
you only have a little time to optimize your site for better search
engine rankings, at least write good Title and Description tags. They
are a fundamental requirement for improved search ranking.
Note: The Keyword meta tag is not given ANY consideration at all by Google or the other major search engines and should not be used.
8. Take Advantage of Other Simple HTML Opportunities
Technical Skill Requirement: Low
Difficulty: Easy
Don't
overlook other HTML code elements to extract a little more love from
the search engines. You can boost your rankings and nudge visitors along
your "buy path" by providing more information in your HTML code. Here
are some of the ways you can easily boost your search engine rankings:
Use
text headings (using heading tags <H1><H2><H3>) Text
placed within a heading tag is used to briefly describe the topic of
the section of a page it introduces. The use of text "heading" tags is
important to the user as visual clues, but they are also used to
indicate the importance of the words or phrases to the search engines.
It allows search engines to make better sense of the words and phrases
on the page in a way that changes in font size doesn't. Some sites don't
use them because they don't like the way they look, but heading tags
can easily be made to look any way you like by including them in your
style sheets.
Use Inter-site "anchor text" links Creating
keyword-rich internal text links within your site will also help. Use
this tactic in moderation as too many links between your pages can
actually harm you. Testing has shown good results by creating links
between the first 10 pages that you will find listed in.
Google's results when you search for site:www.mydomain.com (simple add "site:" to your home page URL, all as one word, and search for that "combined" word in Google)
Use
Image Alt Tags Alt tags (Alternative Text Tags) were developed so that
if an image is unavailable, you can still see an alternative text
description of it.
However, alt tags are also an additional
type of content, in which you can display information to visitors and
search engines by using the alt and title attributes, like this: <img
src="smilingbaby.gif" alt="Smiling Baby" title="Smiling Baby"/>.
Note that search engines will index the both the alt and title content,
but usually prefer the title content if available.
9. Eliminate Broken Links and Error pages
Technical Skill Requirement: Low
Difficulty: Easy
Broken
links that produce "Page Not Found" error messages are harmful to your
site. They reduce search engine crawling efficiency and accuracy,
meaning that some of your content may not be listed (or indexed) in
search engine databases. They also "dilute" your site's overall search
engine rank. Plus, they are one of the easiest ways to lose potential
customers. Broken links and error messages create a highly negative and
unprofessional impression to visitors, frequently causing them to leave
and not return.
We strongly recommend regularly checking your
entire site for error pages. Your SEO Tools account includes a broken
links report and tool that helps find both the error page URL and all
the links to it within your site. Use the tool to remove all internal
links to error pages, and then use the solutions below for any possible
external links to them.
Create a Custom 404 Error Page A good
404 error page advises visitors that they've hit an invalid URL, and
then provides other links to direct help them to their intended
destination.
Use 301 Redirects If you move or rename pages, use
301 redirects to automatically transfer them from the old page location
to its new permanent home. This redirect is anonymous to your site
visitor.
If you can't implement custom 404 pages or 301 redirects, contact your web developer for assistance.
10. Develop (or Exercise) Patience
Technical Skill Requirement: None
Difficulty: Moderate
Don't
expect quick results. Using these simple techniques will indeed deliver
more traffic from Google and other search engines, but it takes a
little time. There's no getting around that fact. Once you start
following the steps above, your site's ranking will slowly but surely
rise. While you should start seeing results within weeks, big
improvements usually requires a little more time and effort. However,
these efforts ALWAYS pay off
Take the time to keep implementing
the Google Guidelines. Google rewards sites meeting their guidelines
with higher placement in search results, and more search traffic.
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