1 Don't Re-Use Your Title Tag On Every Page Many times your website designer doesn't even realize this is being done. Your creative team is more concerned with the visual presentation than to worry about something they consider more of a minor 'nuisance". Most of the time, your website has been created from a template, which ensures that everything looks the same -design wise- from one page to another. This is perfect to get the site off the ground and out there. Most WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors work this way as well, templates allow for easy production of web pages. The drawback to this from an SEO perspective is that the Title and Meta tags are all repeated. To get your website off on the right foot, change each page's title tag to reflect what the page is about. You'll be surprised at the good this can do for each of your web site's pages. 2 Keyword Research It would be wise to do at least a little keyword research before your launch your website. Understanding how your audience searches is the most beneficial thing you can do for your website. Doing even the slightest amount of research can clue you into small idiosyncrasies that could be "gold mines" in disguise. Keyword research can also let you know how to target the content on your page, how to word each page's title tag and whether people really are searching on your business name. It's well worth the time spent to discover exactly what you need to target to have a successful website. 3 Don't Use Keywords In Images Your designer might yell at you, question your judgment, or complain that it will ruin the aesthetics of the design, but let me put it to you this way; "What good is a great design if no one can find it?" If your keywords are embedded in images, the search engines have no clue that keyword is related to your page. They cannot "see" your images. So if the term "camel rides" is important to your business, make sure it's actual text somewhere within your content, not part of an image. 4 Check Your Robots.txt File Check, double check and go back and recheck that Robots.txt file. Make sure it's in the root folder of your domain. Ensure all the folders and files you want to be found by the search engines are allowed. Any development folders, javascript folders, css folders or private folders, you do not want to end up in a search engine results should be disallowed
Great information and one more thing creating back links is very important to gain high PR in search engines.
Useful information for SEO beginners. Creating backlinks to your site will be helpful in gaining the PR status high.
i rode very care fully your post that is a very help full....thanks for sharing..... can tell me that what is the indexing very fest process ..because i did submit our site last 5 days ago and many social site and forums signature link added but my site at this time not index....can u tell me what reason..
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1. Getting Indexed If you want to get into Google’s index in short-time you need to get as many authoritative links pointing at your site as possible. Forget about using the Google submission tool, just find some links from regularly crawled sites (sites that frequently update their content are usually crawled more frequently). With the right links pointing at your site you can get indexed in a week or less, so go beg, borrow or steal to get those links. 2. Give Some Friendly Directions When you need to find your way you look at a map. Sitemaps are just as useful to spiders as real maps are to humans. In fact, sitemaps are also incredibly useful for your human visitors so consider creating both a html and an xml sitemap - the former for humans (and spiders!) and the latter for Google Sitemaps. 3. Don’t Stress Out the Googlebot Where possible use well formed, semantically correct mark-up. I make sure that my pages validate over on validator.w3.org (well, I let the HTMLtidy plug-in take care of this). I also spend a fair bit of time on the page title, the header elements, the text body and the internal link anchors. I try to ensure that keywords are consistent across these four page elements. This helps Google to identify what your page is about. BTW the page title is quite an important variable used by Google when applying SERP positioning so make sure to get the correct keywords into each and every unique page title. 4. Avoid overuse of Flash Search Engines have always had problems with Flash. For this reason Flash-based websites are notoriously difficult to rank well in Google. If you must keep that cool looking Flash site you should consider offering a text-based alternative (not just for the SE’s, but also from a usability perspective). Failing that, you could try utilising the <noembed> or <noframe> elements to incorporate as much text into your pages as possible. If absolutely all else fails your last hope is probably the ‘Google Bomb‘. While I’m on the subject, try to avoid using Flash for navigation - bear in mind that some people don’t have Flash installed and others (like me) block Flash from their browser. 5. Create Unique Compelling Content Google loves unique content. But more importantly so do humans, and the best advice is to create your content for human visitors first and foremost. Great content attracts attention and people show their interest by linking to your content. Every time someone links to you Google counts this as a vote for your content - the more votes the higher your SERP ranking. Oh, and just for the record, the converse of this also holds - Google hates copied content just as much as it loves unique content so don’t expect much love if you scrap other sites. 6. Better Links = Higher SERPs The most important trick to getting those all important #1 positions from Google is to get great links pointing at your unique content. (Having a 10 year old domain doesn’t hurt also, but that’s another story.) This is probably the trickiest part of getting Google’s love - if people cant find you how can they possibly link to you? Well my advice is to go for the low-hanging fruit first. Human edited web directories offer a great way to get some easy links. If you have a bit more time you could also try some writing some quality articles related to your niche and submit these to the top article directories. A quick note about link anchors: If I can control just one single factor when looking for Google love then it would have to be the anchor text used in the backlinks pointing at my content. *Note*: Quite a few people have asked me what are the best anchors to use. I recommend you check out Wordze if you need to find the best keyword anchors. IMO Google applies quite a serious bias to the anchor text used in your backlinks when determining the most appropriate SERP position (and if you want to see what the difference is between #1 and #2 or #1 and #10 then take a look at this). Some link tools and other info Most Search Engines allow the use of the link: operator to display the backlinks a website has. Generally I use Yahoo.com to check backlinks quickly, but be warned that the Google link: command NEVER displays anything other than a sample of your backlinks. MSN have just recently released the LinkFromDomain: operator which shows you all the outbound links from a website (handy to check where a site is linking to). 7. Tell Google Where You Are Google offers country-specific searches on all its search properties. If you want to appear in any particular ‘pages from [your country here]‘ search you must fulfil one of the following conditions: 1. your site must be physically hosted in the targeted country (and the server IP must resolve to that country); and/or 2. your domain must use the ccTLD of the targeted country. So if you want to target the ‘pages from Ireland’ search your website must be either hosted on a server located in Ireland (use this to test) or your domain must be a .ie ccTLD. 8. Remember the ‘Long-Tail’ Google indexes pages not websites so each page can target different keywords that apply to the niche you are targeting. The more possible ways people have of finding your site then the more potential visitors your site will receive from Google. You should make use of keyword estimators (again, Wordze is a great tool for this, but bear in mind that no keyword tool is flawless) to ensure that your pages and copy contain the keywords people actually search for. There are many free keyword tools that you can try. You should also familiarise yourself with the advanced operators available from most of the major search engines. ‘inanchor:’, ‘allinanchor:’, ‘intitle:’ and ‘allintitle:’ are extremely useful for determining how competitive particular search phrases are, and these operators should form part of any serious keyword analysis. It’s worth mentioning that the rapid growth of local search (e.g. appending place names onto queries) means that targeting particular locations is becoming more important. I personally see far more referrals come for localised search queries than from country-only filtered searches. (Note - I work on optimising Irish websites so this observation should be taken in that particular context.) 9. Learn just 1 important Apache module If you want to really be best friends with Google then I suggest you learn 1 fairly easy Apache module: mod_rewrite allows you to turn those ugly dynamic URLs into their pretty SEO-friendly static-looking counterparts. mod_rewrite also allows you to redirect the non-www to your www website URL (or vice-verse). This issue, known as the canonical URL, is one of the most common causes of problems within Google’s index. I also suggest getting familiar HTTP header codes, and in particular the 301 redirect which might someday save your relationship with Google. 10. Play by the book If you try to game Google chances are you’re going to fail. Unless you are extremely well versed and experienced in black-hat techniques any attempt to ‘con’ Google is likely to have very serious consequences for your site. I recommend you become familiar with the Google webmaster guidelines, and very carefully research any grey areas before you implement any semi-shady changes to your property. Wrong-doings usual result in either a penalty or an outright ban depending on the severity of the misdeed. If in doubt I would check out Google Webmaster Group - you never know it might be me who answers your question
yeah, image tags are very effective detail in SEO, especially for the Google image search. It could bring some traffic
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