What is SEO and why is it so important? Real tips, no bull….

SEO (Search engine optimalitation) is the process to get a higher ranking in search engines. This post will you provide with all the thinks you have to do to get a higher ranking in search engines like Google, Bing, Altavista, Yahoo and all the other search engines.

seo-tips

Quality content:

The first thing you will have to do, is create a website that provides quality and UNIQUE content. Do NOT copy paste your content from other websites. Many search engines will see that you have duplicated content and will not give you a higher ranking in their search engine. For example: if you have a website about soccer, try to write something unique about that. There are a lot of websites that are about soccer. Try to use keywords that no other websites use. You can use this keyword tool generator to get unique keywords for your content.

The second thing you will have to do is when you create your website, try to have a easy to use website. You have to think like a search engine. If you have a lot of content and a lot of buttons, make sure everybody can find everything on your website very fast.

Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, if you use images, provide these images with an ALT tag. For example, if you have a image about your dog. Set the alt tag to: “picture of my dog, foofer”.

Never use text like “Click here”. Use keyword buttons, like this is my dog, my dog being the button. Make sure that you DO NOT do the following: click here for pictures of my dog. Click here being the button.

Do NOT use FRAMES, use DIV-blocks and CSS to give your website to look that you want.

Try to create fresh content at least once every week. If your site does not change often, your site is needing a BLOG, something like this here. My website www.linxiting.com does not change often, that was the main reason to create another part of my website blog.linxiting.com (the website you are on right now). What I do is the following. I post blogposts about things that intrest me, this is a great way to create fresh content. The more fresh unique content, the more search engines will love you. You have to keep just 1 thing in mind: make sure you post once a week. Do not post everything at ones and then don’t post anything for 3 weeks. Be consistent in your blog-posts.

For your blogposts, these are the import things you need to keep in mind. Your title is very important. This is what everybody will see in the search engine. The description is also very important, this is what will below your title in the search engines. As I already said, if you use images, the alt tags are very important, especially for google images, yahoo images, …

Use H1, H2,… tags, these are also important, but not as important as your title-tag

Linkbuilding

This is probably the hardest, but best thing to do to have your site indexed high in every search engine! If many site’s are linking to your website. Search engines will know you are important. Why is it so hard. 99% of every website on the internet will not link to your website for free. You will have to be patient for that. If you are not patient, this is what you can do. Search google for websites like yours, write there email-adresses on a piece of paper. Send every website a nice mail. Maybe something like this will work: “please place a link on your website of my website, I will also place a link of your website on mine”. I’m not sure this will work, but you can try it…

The other thing you can do is create an article and submit it to various websites or to websites like articlebase, ezinearticles, svwsticker,… This will make your article be seen many times and it will be higher in search egines because these website score significantly good in search engines, but be aware, this will create duplicated content and as I said in the beginning of this article, search engines don’t like that!

Link to your own blogposts, but CAUTION: if you have a lot of links on your website, make sure they all work! Another thing you have to keep in mind, don’t over do this! DO NOT link to every page on your website.

Other things you can do:

 Use RSS-feeds, make sure people can subscribe, this will make your visitors come back if they read something interesting.

Offline marketing is also a great way to promote your website… Try to great something with your logo and URL on. For example, on a ball pen, on a t-shirt,…

Make you and your website popular by commenting on other websites. This will make you become known around the web.

Other thinks everyone knows already:

Use meta-tags
Make sure you have valid HTML
Static is always better than Dynamic (for example, DO NOT create your whole website in FLASH)
Make sure people find your website, with or without the www (for example, if you type linxiting.com or www.linxiting.com you will allways come on my website)
Submit your website to search engines

And the most important thing, read this blogpost and SEO starter guide by google before your start creating your website!

So this was my latest topic of the week, if you like it or you don’t like it, please comment…

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