1. Bold Tags – Use bold (<b> </b>) tags around your keywords. These help search engine spider know what are your keywords therefore helping you rank well for that keyword. Search Engine spiders are programmed to know if a text is bold then it is something important. So, using of bold tags will increase your chances of ranking higher for that keyword. Dont use bold tags too much in one page, I would suggest to just use it twice or thrice in every page. 2. Page Title – Page Title is one of the most important thing to consider when doing on-page SEO. Itll be hard to rank for a certain keyword if it doesnt exist in your title. Always make your title short but also a catchy one and must be keyword rich. 3. Article Exchange – Article Exchange are just like link exchange but just much better. Article exchange is where your article will be posted in someones blog and at the same time, someones article will be posted in your blog. Usually, links are added at the end of the article. Why is this better than link exchange? You both get content and have quality links. 4. Deep Linking – Deep Linking is where you link each of your related articles aside from your homepage. This can help your single pages rank much higher for that keyword. By doing this (linking each of your related articles), search engines will know that you have a lot of good content. That is why, it is not a good idea to always link it to your homepage because search engines will think that you dont have much content because it always link to your homepage. 5. Sitemap – Sitemap is one of the basic things that a website should have. Sitemap helps search engine spider to crawl every page of your website. It is very important to have this especially if you have a big site to make sure that every pages will be crawled. 6. Web Analytics – Having web analytics will help you know where your traffic are coming from therefore you will know what strategy youre doing is successful. You will also know what keywords you rank well in search engines. 7. SEO-Friendly URLs – URL is also a big factor when it comes to SEO that is why it is important to make a keyword rich URL. For example you have an article about SEO Tips, your URL should be somewhat like domain.com/seo-tips. Make it short but making sure that it consists of your target keyword. 8. Unique Content – You can hear almost everywhere people saying that content is King. It is important that you make good and unique content because if you have those then people will link to your site therefore you get a lot of natural backlinks. Also, people will always come back to your site for more if they know that you have good content. 9. Build Links Intelligently – Inbound links are the basis of search engines on how well a site will rank that is why it is important to get a lot of backlinks as much as you can. Always go for quality over quantity, which means that you should look for related links than getting a lot of links but are not related. You should also consider submitting to search engines and directories. 10. Comment in other related blogs – Commenting to other related (and why not not realted blogs too) blogs will help your site get more exposure. It will also increase your backlinks but you should look for blog that have dofollow links. Choose do follow blogs with PR 4 or more. 11. Bookmark your best stories. Go to Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Strumble upon, and submit weekly some articles of your site. You not only going to get traffic but will get a backlink form sites that have PR 4/9 that Google crawls many times a day. 12. Create a link wheel. It worked for me. Webs.com, Blogger, Wordpres, Yola.com. Create a simple page with an unique article, that has an anchot text linking to your man website and link the new pages between them. 13. Submit RSS directories. Submit Feeds of your main site and also feeds of the linkwheel's sites and Bookmarks accounts to many RSS directories you can find. Anytime you add new content it will appear in many different web sites. I want to add, a couple of succesful SEOs i know (+10.000 USD a month only with adsense) ...do this: 4 days a week dedicate to content, 3 days to promote site... Do you agree these strategies? If u have another ones, please, share them in this thread.
These are very basic methods, Most of are on site SEO tips. This is is good post for everyone. Thanks Blog.
basic list but good for someone starting out. Good idea to use long tail keywords if you are new to seo as well, makes ranking higher easier and keeps you going.
Gotta say, one turn off I've always had was reading an article with random words bolded that I knew had to be keywords of some sort. I heard the bolding keywords doesn't do anything anymore in regards to how much weight it carries by the crawlers checking through sites to get indexed. Great list to help newcomers wet their feet!
sorry, just want to add more information It's better using <STRONG> than <B> Both of them bold the text but in search engine, <STRONG> is more important than <B> I proved it, have 2 pages, same content. In the first page, I used <B> to bold the keyword and used <STRONG> in the second page. After 1 month, first page still have PR0 and second page have PR1
Not quite sure why link wheels are dangerous? Just stop interlinking them and make sure that they are indexed by other means. Nice basic tips btw...
Everyone needs to be reminded of the all important basics once in a while. Sometimes we lose sight of the things that actually work in the midst of trying new things. So great post, very direct and thorough list for everyone.
Sharing small tips like this - will always make this thread and this Forum valuable.. ! Thanks a lot for sharing this - im gonna try this and will share my result in future.. Thanks again for sharing...
I love unique content, because it was very influential on the search results in google and yahoo, for that I do not want to copy paste