Basic Webmaster SEO Tips

[branica]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is something that you definitively should implement if you want to drive free traffic to your website. In short, SEO is what you need to do in order for the search engines to give your websites the proper placement and desired ranking whenever someone searches for a keyword, or key phrase, related to the topic of your website. SEO is partly science and partly art and it is not based on common sense or logic. Only those who really know what they are doing manage to set up the right wording and sprinkled the correct keywords throughout their web pages in a manner that really fullfill the potential of their websites. With possible millions of competing websites, it can be very difficult keeping up with your competitors. In this short article I will try to describe a few things you can do to optimize your websites for the search engines.

Firstly, there are many different search engines that people use to find information on the net. Actually, there are several hundreds of them. Yes, maybe even thousands. However there are only three or so worth mentioning in this regard and the top three that you should be trying to optimize your site for are Google, Yahoo and MSN, in that particular order. Since we all want to be at the top of the Google listings, it could sometimes be a good idea to start with MSN and Yahoo as they simply are quicker to index your site and there is usually less competition on those search engines. You will still get a significant amount of traffic to your website from these search engines if you manage to get a top ranking. Google is the king of traffic, but there is almost always more competition there.

Next, one of the biggest mistakes people tend to do is to try to optimize their websites for keywords that a lot of people are searches for. How is that stupid? Easy. There will always be a lot more competition for high traffic keywords! Choosing the right keywords and keyword phrases to beat out the competition can be really hard and often a lot of ongoing tweaking and changing is necessary to achieve the desired ranking. One way to find the best keywords is to use a keyword research tool that displays the number of times per month your chosen keyword is searched in the three major search engines and also to find out what keywords your competitors are ranking for. You may initially think that the more a term is searched, the more traffic you will get, but think again! As mentioned above the more a term is searched, the harder it will be to get your site ranked at the top of the search results, or even within the first PAGES of search results. The best is to choose terms that are less popular but still have a significant number of searches each and every month. A good number to aim for is any term that is searched about 5000-10000 times per month but sometimes it may even be a good idea to aim much lower. It can often be a good idea to start with a keyword that get maybe only a few hundred searches a month, get some clicks and then start moving up the ladder. It's rather hard to do this without using a helpful keyword research tool such as the free Good Keywords or the more advanced SEO Elite.

Once the good keywords are found you want to go into the source code of your website and add those keywords to your HTML code in the right places such as Meta Description, Meta Tags etc. You also need to put your keywords in the title tag, the main keyword in <H1> and preferably also one or two secondary keywords in <H2> header tags, and then sprinkled the rest of the less important keywords throughout the text on your pages. Keyword density is an important factor that the search engines take into consideration when listing pages in the search results. Just be aware of that the more keywords you try to optimize your website for the poorer you will rank for your main keywords as they will loose their power. You should repeat, underline, make bold or give bigger fonts to your keywords throughout the text, but be careful not to overload your pages with the same keywords too many times. You simply don’t want to make it obvious that you are just trying to get better search engine rankings. If you are not careful about this, you may risk being banned by the search engines.

After you have carefully sprinkled your site with enough good keywords you should write articles on topics related to your keywords and add them to your web site. Without overloading the articles with your keywords, use the selected keywords or key phrases in the article title, the first paragraph of your text , within the body of the text and in the conclusion of your new article. Why do this? Simply because search engines really loves content. Try to do this on an ongoing basis and add at least a few new articles a week and you will be off to a very good start! Free traffic from the search engines is the best way to get traffic to your website and I hope the tips above can help you understand the basics of keyword optimization and SEO!

[jamesortan]

Basic Webmaster SEO Tips are as under:
1. Use Validate HTML tags and eliminate errors.
2. Use link on all important pages.
3. Check Accessibility of your website.
4. Use relevant keywords.

[jobran]

If you want to get #1 on Google listen to Matt Cutts.

Don't waste your $$$ on the wrong kind of backlinks - They won't work.

Since the Google "Panda" update a lot has changed.

Google has moved the playing field and simple text links are almost
counter productive, Pyramid linkbuilding is no longer worth the effort
but Contextual Links will get you an almost immediate SERPS
improvement.

Tens of thousands of both can be done in 24hrs using Scrapebox, and
because of that Google is now giving simple text links less weight in
SERPS.

If you watch the latest video by Matt Cutts, Google's own guru, you
will learn that contextual backlinks now have the most value.

Contextual backlinks are links placed inside an article or blog post
that are in the context of their surrounding text, so they look
natural.

For example an article on firefighting might have links to a
firestation URL. These are quite time consuming to create and
invariably need an image to get maximum Google juice.

For anyone planning to create backlinks I recommend you to take 3
minutes to watch the Matt Cutts video on
SEO


If you recognise the change he speaks about. then afterwards use their
FREE software to create some contextual articles embedded with your
own URL.

[prymagestore]

This article has so much information. I have been creating websites for fun for a while but just recently started aggravating to optimize search results for my latest masterpiece. I learned one more acceptable idea.

[Shweta_Gurur]

Hello,
Basic Webmaster SEO Tips are given below:-

These are the basic SEO duties:-
* Understanding your SEO objectives
* Target Market Analysis
* Competitor's Analysis
* SEO On-Page (Keyword Analysis, Meta, Content Optimization).
* Off Page SEO Activities

And here are few basic tips that you can look into:-
-SEO is useless if you have a weak or non-existent call to action. Make sure your call to action is clear and present.
-Pay attention to the context surrounding your images. Images can rank based on text that surrounds them on the page. Pay attention to keyword text, headings, etc.
-Understand social marketing. It IS part of SEO. The more you understand about sites like Digg, Yelp, del.icio.us, Facebook, etc., the better you will be able to compete in search.

[kartinmarshall]

Seo is searcher engine of link and site. A lot of the benefits of the reading of the SEO work. It is all about transaction and make sales. You want your site is Google friendly and fine-tune your keywords and keyword phrases. The traffic is the sale of clients and customers.

[clintonkollman]

Here is five basic webmaster SEO tips.
1.Choosing Keywords - This is vitally important SEO work. You will use your keywords in your content, title, and meta-tags.
2.Content is King - When your write your comments and your articles it should always add something informative.
3.Choose Your Domain Name Wisely - This should be your first SEO technique. Your domain name needs to contain your main keyword.
4.Use 'white-hat' Methods For Obtaining Backlinks - You want to acquire both inbound and outbound links. These need to be done properly. Only link to other pages with a decent page rank of their own.
5.Know That Sometimes Less Is More - The search engines look for sites with authority. The way you get authority is through SEO.

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Ares

[philipkeller]

There are really a lot of benefits to performing SEO work. Actually it is crucial. It is all about generating traffic to make sales. You want your site to be Google-friendly and fine tuned by using your keywords and keyword phrases. Traffic is customers and customers are sales. No customers no sales. It is that simple.

If you have an online business then you definitely need SEO work. If you don't know how there are some excellent services available to help you, but they can be a bit expensive. It can be worth your while to learn SEO techniques.