Friday, July 14, 2006

SEO Basics

Before you start seriously getting into SEO there are several basics steps to make your website search engine friendly.

Keywords

One of the biggest mis take you could do is forgetting the first step that is developing a keyword list. It is common to see wrong keywords or no keywords at all on people’s websites but if this is you, optimize your keywords to optimize your website.

The easiest and most effective way to find high searched and paid keywords is to use a tool call wordtracker.

Wordtracker by far is the best tool to use if you want to be successful making money online. Not only does it tell you how many people are searching for your key words or phrases but it also tells you how many websites use those key words and phrases. Knowing your competitors is very important when considering certain key words as your competition makes all the difference between making money or not.

When you have a list of key words or phrases then we can begin.

Page Title

Your page title should be similar to what your website’s page is about. Whenever possible, try putting your keyword in the title

Megatags

Another tip is use description and keywords megatags at the top of your page

Heading Tags

Putting heading tags are great as search engines view them as more important, so making sure they have keywords is vital. Making sure not to overdo the

should only be used once and the rest should be

,

,

, and

heading tags.

Page text

Having keywords in your pages text can increase your page rank further but make sure not to abuse this strategy. If you overdo using keywords in your text you can be penalized and even worst making it obvious for your visitors to notice.

Continue to SEO Basics (Part 2)…

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