Wednesday 18 July 2012

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

SEO is not hard to learn. You will find tons of SEO guides or tips over the Internet + the official starter guide from Google. As long as you understand how search engine works, you will know how to design your web page and how to write your content efficiently - efficiently to be more explosive to all search engines.

Below are the tips to help you start with search engine optimization. Please keep it in mind that SEO is a on-going task. You should keep analysing the performance of your website and update your contents accordingly. Fresh content is always the favour of search engine.

1. keywords
  • meta tag "keywords" is not important to google search engine any more
  • however, it is still ranked as #1how search engine measures your page
  • carefully choose your keywords based on the content of your page
  • monitor the keywords performance of your site in google analytics closely and focus on search phases
2. back links
  • build quality links using your keywords
  • build links to your site and within your site using your keywords
3. meta tag - title
  • should be placed within <head> tag
  • will usually appear in the first line of the results
  • create unique title tag for each page
4. meta tag - description
  • should be placed within <head> tag
  • create unique description tag for each page
5. url structure
  • try to use relevant words in the url. Example: seo.html is better than page1.html
  • use simple directory structure. Example: ../doc/seo.pdf is better than ../doc/google/au/en/seo/2012/07/18/v1/seo.pdf
  • specify your canonical
6. sitemap
  • prepare one sitemap for users
  • prepare one XML sitemap for search engines. If you are not sure how, use some online sitemap generator tools.
7. 404 page
  • allow visitors to navigate to home page or other pages on a 404 page
  • provide customer support information on a 404 page
8. quality content
  • write easy-to-read text
  • write unique content
  • use paragraphs, heading properly
9. image
  • always specify a descriptive text of "alt" attribute
10. social marketing
  • broadcast your sites on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc

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