Seo tips please help?

terenkleon

any good seo tips out there? beside back linking unless you know a good and cost free way.

Liam Byrne

terenkleon wrote: »

any good seo tips out there? beside back linking unless you know a good and cost free way.

Set up the content of the site using semantic markup for page titles and header tags

Minimise the code using divs & CSS

Add relevant titles & all tags to elements and images

benbob65

Supply heaps of useful, unique content.
Other than that, start learning at the beginning. Their is no magic trick, no secret shortcut, and no inside track.

desaparecidos

Apply for Google AdSense, link to your site from popular sites, semantic code (don't need to be too anal about is, just use proper headers, titles, lists, paragraphs etc).

business bloomer

terenkleon wrote: »

any good seo tips out there? beside back linking unless you know a good and cost free way.

Hi, I can take a look at your Website and give you free tips, no problem. Did it already for some other people on Boards PM me if interested!

mhkdeveloper

1. If you absolutely MUST use Java script drop down menus, image maps or image links, be sure to put text links somewhere on the page for the spiders to follow.



2. Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.



3. If content is king, then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link. Remember, if there is no good, logical reason for that site to link to you, you don’t want the link.



4. Don’t be obsessed with PageRank. It is just one isty bitsy part of the ranking algorithm. A site with lower PR can actually outrank one with a higher PR.



5. Be sure you have a unique, keyword focused Title tag on every page of your site. And, if you MUST have the name of your company in it, put it at the end. Unless you are a major brand name that is a household name, your business name will probably get few searches.

6. Fresh content can help improve your rankings. Add new, useful content to your pages on a regular basis. Content freshness adds relevancy to your site in the eyes of the search engines.


7. Be sure links to your site and within your site use your keyword phrase. In other words, if your target is “blue widgets” then link to “blue widgets” instead of a “Click here” link.



8. Focus on search phrases, not single keywords, and put your location in your text (“our Palm Springs store” not “our store”) to help you get found in local searches.



9. Don’t design your web site without considering SEO. Make sure your web designer understands your expectations for organic SEO. Doing a retrofit on your shiny new Flash-based site after it is built won’t cut it. Spiders can crawl text, not Flash or images.



10. Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, image ALT attributes and even your domain name.



11. Check for canonicalization issues – www and non-www domains. Decide which you want to use and 301 redirect the other to it. In other words, if http://www.domain.com is your preference, then http://domain.com should redirect to it.



12. Check the link to your home page throughout your site. Is index.html appended to your domain name? If so, you’re splitting your links. Outside links go to http://www.domain.com and internal links go to http://www.domain.com/index.html.


Ditch the index.html or default.php or whatever the page is and always link back to your domain.



13. Frames, Flash and AJAX all share a common problem – you can’t link to a single page. It’s either all or nothing. Don’t use Frames at all and use Flash and AJAX sparingly for best SEO results.



14. Your URL file extension doesn’t matter. You can use .html, .htm, .asp, .php, etc. and it won’t make a difference as far as your SEO is concerned.



15. Got a new web site you want spidered? Submitting through Google’s regular submission form can take weeks. The quickest way to get your site spidered is by getting a link to it through another quality site.