Top Tips for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Discussion in 'SEO' started by nani, Apr 10, 2011.

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    The popularity of a web site gives more profit to a business organization by reaching to more people. The best and probably the cheapest way to reach to more people, is by increasing the listings at search engines. There are different ways to get listed in the top rankings of popular search engines. The following tips help to increase the ranking of a website in main search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing etc.

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    1. Title and Meta Tags

    Title and Meta Tags

    Most of the search engine’s crawlers first look at the title tag and Meta tag description. Title should contain a keywords which best describe the content of the page. In the Meta tag description also keywords should be included in precise manner. The keywords should be relevant to content of the page. Some of the top search engines like: Google scans the whole page and picks the relevant keywords for indexing.

    2. Great and Unique Content

    The main thing to attract users to a site is by its content. If the content is not available in other pages and it is of high quality then more people will come into the site and they will stay for longer time.

    3. Great Keywords

    We can find keywords by using Google Adword keywords that got more hit in the past. This helps in finding out the relevant keywords which can be used in different locations in the website. Firstly, these keywords can be used in Title tag, at description in Meta tag and also inside the body of a web page.

    4. Regular updates

    Most of the viewers want some new contents in a web site. If the web site is not updated regularly then the viewers will not return back to the web site. In case of crawlers of search engines, they also check for the modified date of the web pages. Therefore the pages that are modified regularly have more probability of being indexed in the search engines.

    5. Removing dead links

    A great site should not have any blind or dead links which does not result any output. If there are any links inside the website that is not working then that should be removed immediately because those dead links give negative impact to the crawlers when they do not find the pages that are shown in the link.

    6. URL with keywords

    The best way to get indexed in search engines is to get a domain name with the keyword. If it is not possible then the keywords can be included in URL in a descriptive text, for example: www.xyz.com/best_places_in_sydney.html is more effective then the URL like www.xyz.com/200032.html . This increases the probability of getting caught by the crawlers.

    7. Proper use of heading tag

    heading

    Heading tags shows the importance of the text in a web page to the users, web browsers and search engines. The title of the page should be specified in
    tag this gives the idea about the content of the page. Similarly, can be used to break the chunks of information in a web page by specifying the sub-headings.

    8. XML sitemap

    Sitemap

    Sitemap is generally created to give the whole idea about the structure of the web site with links on them. The sitemaps focused for users are not accessed easily by the crawlers of the search engines. Therefore xml sitemaps are used to design the sitemaps mainly focusing for submission to the search engines. Some webmasters prefer separate sitemaps for users and search engines where as some CMS and blog engines generate the sitemaps with style sheet having links on them, which can be used for both the purposes.

    9. Link Building

    Building links with different sites is one of the best ways for attracting traffic to a site. Exchanging the links with related sites and blogs helps to get more connections resulting in more hits. A lot of sites can be found who accept link exchange. This builds networks which gives more referrals to a site.

    10. Social Media

    Social Media

    Social networking sites are very helpful in getting better ranking in search engines. Social networking sites like facebook, twitter, stumbleupon, dig, reddit etc are some popular networking websites. These social media give more exposure to the site to different online communities and helps in getting reference.

    11. Web directory listings

    Web directory listing is a very important thing to be done to uplift a web-site in search engine rankings. The web directories like dmoz.org are very impressive for search engine ranking. There are a lot of free directory listing sites available but they may be bit slow. Therefore we need patience to wait for the effect of all the submission to the web directories.
     
    nani, Apr 10, 2011 IP
  2. huiz41

    huiz41 Active Member

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    great tips; thanks for the helpful advice - this will really help point people in the right direction
     
    huiz41, Apr 11, 2011 IP
  3. Bella2010

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    Also the age of the website. Sites that are years old but never updated are often higher ranked than newer, better ones.
     
    Bella2010, Apr 11, 2011 IP
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    ayushi infotech Peon

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    great tips it is more helpful to seo beginners ....nice efforts i think you forgot Robot.txt and how it helps for seo...
     
    ayushi infotech, Apr 11, 2011 IP
  5. Bella2010

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    What's robot.txt?
     
    Bella2010, Apr 12, 2011 IP
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    revskank Member

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    #6
    Excellent set of tips.
    Nice and basic with no fluff and nonsense!
     
    revskank, Apr 13, 2011 IP
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    #7
    seo its always necessary specially wen we have our own site and want to promte it.
    in this post you have described nice point step by step i read it carefully and i will want to go through your step when do seo for any site thanks.
     
    gaurangdave, Apr 13, 2011 IP
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    seoservices7890 Peon

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    Thanks for sharing the gteat tips....It is must to learn about these basic things first.
     
    seoservices7890, Apr 13, 2011 IP
  9. Alina Tru

    Alina Tru Member

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    Every time repeat same and same methods for seo. Can any one have some fresh idea for seo working. Thanks
     
    Alina Tru, Apr 13, 2011 IP
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    u4mee Banned

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    Very cool, I am just starting to learn about search engine optimization, so I am reading every article I can find, thank you very much for sharing yours.
     
    u4mee, Apr 14, 2011 IP
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    Yes,I totally agree these are good tips for our site.
     
    Zack_miller, Apr 14, 2011 IP
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    #12
    Yes ,very good collection of information.
     
    softwareengg07, Apr 15, 2011 IP
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    #13
    Good reminder of basics!
     
    fatbaldbloke, Apr 15, 2011 IP
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    #14
    very nice post & thaks for u.
     
    vinaykumar4670, Apr 15, 2011 IP
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    Keep it up the great work. I really like it. Thanks.
     
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    #16
    Good advice, a website with this steep will be more advanced
    Keep it up
     
    blastdown, Apr 22, 2011 IP
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    #17
    It's nice tips to do a great work on the website
    I follow the "authority pro" tips to make a great money with less work
     
    rampraka, Apr 22, 2011 IP
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    #18
    you never include the speed of the loading of the page?
     
    kofadije, Apr 22, 2011 IP
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    #19
    thats great advice thanks
    though i think one that many
    people tend to overlook is
    site management such as
    spamm and what not...
     
    TheMissingLink007, Apr 22, 2011 IP
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    #20
    Thanks for sharing the tips...explained it very clearly
     
    kiranbanker, Apr 26, 2011 IP