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Anyone care to share some SEO (Search Engine Optimization Tips)?

Three things I`ve found that help if you have a site:

Keywords: Have good descriptive keywords (words, phrases, etc.) that describe your content and objectives.

Backlinks: Placing links to your blogs, sites, etc. on other sites that allow it can also help with the Search Engine rankings.

Content: Make sure you have good content and update it regularly if you can.

Anyone else have any tips to share?

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Unique page titles
Informative meta descriptions
h1 / h2 tags
Alt tags in your images
Clean, efficient code; less code/more content
External css and js
Clean / rewritten URL`s




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M Hall
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 - I usually suggest using personal pages to promote your business/company web presense. that can be added to your backlinks suggestion though

 - Remember to use a site index, and a friendly crawl-able (by search engine bots/crawlers) navigational menu

 - Don`t use double pages
 - Use a full path in all of your links
 - Make sure your pages don`t include a "?" in their addresses

Jmes




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"- Make sure your pages don`t include a "?" in their addresses"

Google says that this doesn`t matter any longer (I.E. dynamic links).



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Steve Mann
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Afaik, they still rank worse
Plus you`d probably want to be available in other top search engines besides Google as well
Besides, I think it creates a much more organized website, and easier to handle in cases of innovative expansion and/or changes

Jmes



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Yes, most of the SEO elements mentioned above are useful but the most important thing about ranking better for terms is to get links that bear the anchor text with the keywords that you are targeting.

For example, if you are trying to rank for gardening tips, you should get links pointing to your site with the the anchor text as "gardening tips".

Jmes, I`ve seen more information that tells me that you are correct.  Apparently the announcement from Google about dynamic URL`s being followed and indexed wasn`t completely true.



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Steve Mann
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Basic SEO

1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. The title tag is located right at the top of your document within the head tags. Inserting a keyword or key phrase will greatly improve your chances of bringing targeted traffic to your site.

Make sure that the title tag contains text which a human can relate to. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result. Treat it like a headline.

2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.

3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.

Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.

Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.

4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.

I always use the headline of my pages as the title tag to help the robots know exactly what my page is about. A good place to insert the headline is within the h1 tag. So the headline is the same as the title tag text.

5. Do not spam the description or keyword meta tag by stuffing meaningless keywords or even spend too much time on this tag. SEO pros all agree that these tags are not as important today as they once were. I just place my headline once within the keywords and description tags.

6. Do not link to link-farms or other search engine unfriendly neighborhoods.

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Add to this - Do not spam the text in the site body with white on white text of keywords.  The search engines see this and downrate your page.



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Steve Mann
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MannMade Digital Video
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Keyword relevancy also play grate role in SEO........

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