There are 9 main points you should focus on:
• Keywords
• URL Text
• Description, Meta tags
• Title tags
• Image Names
• ALT tags
• Heading tags
• Content
• Hyperlinks
The focus of these 8 steps is to load your pages with as many "keywords" as possible.
Keywords
Keywords are the most important aspect of good SEO, this is where you
tell the Search Engines what your site is about. Search Engines use an
algorithm to determine the "Keyword Density" of your site, this formula
is:
Total Words ÷ Keywords= Keyword Density
Use this formula on your competitors web site and see how they score, then aim to beat that score.
Choose keywords that best relate to the information, products or
services that you are offering. For instance, if I am designing a site
about "Web Design", I want my site to include the words "Web Design" as
many times as possible.
However, most people don't just search for just one word, they type
phrases, so you should consider the phrases that best suit your sites
target market. For example, if I am creating a site about "Web Design"
in New Orleans, I would include "New Orleans web design" in my keywords.
Another way around this is to not separate my keywords with commas,
just use spaces, and the Search Engines will make the phrases for you.
The most important thing to remember is that the content of each page is
different, so only use keywords pertaining to that page.
URL Text
When you name a new page you have the option to call it anything you
could possibly think of, why not se a keyword? After all, the URL
address is the first things a search engine comes across when indexing
your pages. You have to remember content doesn't come easy to everyone,
so you gotta slip in your keywords when the process gives you an easy
one.
Description Meta tags
These tags are dwindling in importance since Search Engines are now looking at content, but every little bit counts.
Optimize your meta tags to match your content, products, and services,
and the Search Engines that still look at meta data will reward your
efforts.
Title Tags
Title tags are the tags that tell the Search Engine the title, or formal
description of the document or page. This is the word or phrase that
is seen at the top of the browser window. The most important rule about
title tags is, don't put anything in the title tags but keywords. Once
again this is an easy time to slip in your keywords, so don't miss out.
Image Names
As I said before, content doesn't come easy to everyone, so slip in your
keywords whenever possible, this applies to image names. If you are
saving a picture of a guy working on a computer for your web design web
site, don't call it "some_dude.jpg", call it "web_site_design.jpg". The
Search engine will look at the code for the site and see the image
pertains to the content of the site and this will be another relevant
element on that particular page. You have to take the easy ones when
you are given a chance.
ALT tags
Alt tags are keywords that you can attach to images, giving more weight
to the image since Search Engines can't analyze the content of the image
itself. Here is a chance to slip in more keywords without writing
great content, use it.
Heading tags
Heading tags are associated with the bold font that leads into a section of text. Like this:
Your heading tags should only be keywords, and should be presented in the order that your Meta tags follow.
H1= first meta tag, H2= second meta tag...
Try to utilize all 6 heading tags on each page to ensure maximum page optimization.
Content
As every expert will tell you, "Content is King." Each web page should
have at least 350 words on it, and the more the better, but keep in mind
the formula for keyword density. You don't want to fill a page with
1500 words of jibba-jabba and only 5 keywords in it. Some people get
hung-up on how browsers display text, and use images with text in them
because they want a cool font, but browsers can't read the text embedded
in images, so this content ads no weight to the page in a Search
Engines eyes.
Linkbaiting is the new trend among high ranking sites. Linkbaiting
means writing quality content, or articles that other web sites can
display on their pages as long as they give credit, and a link to your
site.
You don't have to be a vi or emac expert to write good web content, just
be thoughtful of how you word things and incorporate your keywords.
Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are text links to other pages on your site. The rules of SEO and hyperlinks are easy:
• Use hyperlinks so the Search Engine will have a text link to follow to the next page
• Don't use one word links, use long link phrases, preferably keyword phrases
• Use bullets, or some sort of small image that you can attach an ALT
tag to, this will ad more importance to the link, and throw in a couple
of free keywords for you.
Keep these 9 aspects in mid when designing a site, and you are sure to have a leg up on the competition.
Author Bio
Murry Daniels is the owner of Goatsmilktavern Studios,
www.goatsmilktavern.com, a web design and internet marketing company in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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