Hi basically i'm designing one of my first websites and was wondering what would be considered the most important items, or possible items i should include to ensure that my site will be optimized for search engines? I don't want any blackhat techniques, could anybody help me? At the moment all i know is to do the following: create a sitemap and submit to google submit site to google and yahoo search engine add meta tags and make my site informative What else should i be doing, can anyone help. Many Thanks in Advance
http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization This is a great guide for SEO novices and people wanting to brush up on the basics. The SEOmoz is also great for supplementing this basic info afterwards (though some of the content is Premium and requires payment) and it's all completely white-hat! Enjoy and welcome to the world of SEO!
The best thing you can do is do some on page optimization and some link building to start off with SEO.
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First, you should read the SEO Bible from Google. Before going into link baiting / building, you should ensure that your page is optimized for your targeted keywords in terms of: 1. Titles 2. Headers tag (H1, H2 etc) 3. Internal navigation anchor text 4. META tags 5. Keyword density This should provide you with a good start.
Thanks all for your help will definatley take heed of all of this information, thanks it's really appreciated. I'm actually looking forward to starting this SEO, have just got to polish off a couple of sites then i can get down to reading and trying to implement all of your ideas into my site. When you say the following: This mean add keywords to titles and inside header tags? 1. Titles 2. Headers tag (H1, H2 etc) does this mean meta description tag? 4. META tags i'm not sure what this part means? 5. Keyword density Many Thanks all and Merry Christmas!
Check out this no nonsense thread by Dan. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=413544 hope that helps, its quite informative, and more noteworthy, in one place. Nigel
I'm in the Christmas mood and mode, and all DPer's know I have always helped others in any way I can. Toss me a PM with your top keyword choice and your web url (if it is live) and I will compile a report telling you exactly what to do to improve your on-site SEO (FOC). As for offsite, I also have a list of free directories that you can submit to, I hand verified each one (also verified PR), so I know they are actually free and worthwhile. I think the list tops 100 right now, but I am always adding new ones to it. If you just want the directory list you can grab it here, SEO Forum.
Many Thanks , all of those links have got a great read and i think i have a steady grasp on SEO to take out the competition once my site is complete i'm still in the process of designing so will finish that before i get down to the SEO business then i will drop you a PM if you are still in the christmassy mood then I know META tags are hardly used but do you think it's wise to still put in the meta keywords and description tag? Also say my keywords contain the same word e.g football scores, football results, football strip, football goals Is this bad because the football word will be constantly repeated throughout?
I'm going to get "flamed" with how I answer this...but I don't mind a little heat and never had. Yes, use the meta tags, they aren't used in every SE but some of the smaller ones still do, and the new ones that pop up will also use them. For the dup keyword issue, one of my managed sites sells swords, after research and testing I have found that using the dup'd word doesn't affect SERP, in fact improves as long as the chosen keyword is also contained within text on the landing page. Example (I'll have to star this out or DP will take top search result) "au*hen*ic sam**ai *word" and "kat**a swo**" are 2 very different keywords with different searchers, but the site has never realised a penalty for having them as keyword selections (a lot more keyword phrases have the word sword or swords as well). As I said above it helps that those exact phrase combos are written out on the site as well.
Maybe we should create a sticky with some basic SEO guidelines to avoid millions of these threads a day