Wednesday, July 16, 2008

TOP 10 SEO TECHNIQUES MADE EASY TO ALL

Here are ten very important Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. We will be talking about each of the SEO tips in detail later on.

1) Use the most important keywords (KWs) in the title tag. Use these KWs in a proper sentence, and not as a string of KWs.

2) Use 10 of the most important and relevant KWs in the keywords metatag.

3) Give a good, short description in the Description tag. This description should contain at least 2-3 of the most relevant KWs used in a proper sentence.

4) NEVER use KWs in the Title, Description or Keywords tag that are not relevant to your website. Keep it honest and it really works wonders.

5) Use the H1 and H2 tags (most people don't now). Keep the content in the H1 and H2 tags relevant.

6) If the main content of your page is in tables, adjust the design so that quite a bit comes high up in the nesting level of tables. The farther down it gets nested in the code, the lesser of it the spiders will see, and the lesser "relevance" they will give to that page.

7) Use 2-3 of the most relevant keywords as many times as possible in the first 2-3 paragraphs of the content. Again this is mostly a thumb rule. I can't put my finger on why and how much, but believe me, it works.

8) Don't try to fool the SE by using keywords here and there on the page with the same colour as the page background (making the KWs invisible). Sooner or later, you WILL be penalized in the rankings. Like I mentioned before, keep the content honest and relevant, without going on a tangent, or into irrelevant stuff just to get SE listings.

9) Get as many sites to link to you as possible. The more the better.

10) Get into the DMOZ directory. It helps a lot.

Understand that it takes a little time. But if you get on top or in the first page of results the "natural" way, you'll stay there for a long time, as long as you keep the content relevant to the subject of the website.

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