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re many ways to easily and quickly improve the rank you achieve. Don’t think that you can get something for nothing as it takes effort, knowledge and time to achieve these gains and it’s important to know what you are doing as too much onsite optimization could be classed as bad or ‘black hat’ optimization and will result in your site being downgraded or marked down in the indexes!
TITLE
This is shown on the bar at the top of your web browser and normally shown as the main heading in the search engine results. This is the most important onsite factor in your SEO and it’s essential that your site title has the main search terms / keywords in it
A poor choice of title :
‘Delicious ’ or ‘Home Page’ or “Untitled” !
A better title would be:
‘Web Design and SEO for Bluesky Web – www.blueskywebco.com ’
Ensure every title one on every page varies to reflect what is in the page and they all should feature the key ’search terms’ that you want to attract. The title and description should have the most important search term at the start.
WEBSITE CONTENT
This is important because Google etc actually looks at all the text on your page which is used then to value your page to work out if your page actually reflects what is in the title and description. ‘Content is king’ holds true almost without exception. Ensure that the text on your page isrelevant to your theme (title / description), readable and has a high density of your key search terms, but more importantly ensure that the content in your site reflects one that that you would value as a website visitor yourself.
BACKLINKS
Backlinks are hyperlinks from a site to a target site. Google used this method as one of the factors to establish the popularity of a site and after a certain amount of backlinks are established the relevance of that site in relationship to a certain search term / keywords.
Due to the massive success of Google in identifying popular and relevant sites all the main search engine use back links to establish the sites seniority and relevance to certain keywords. Websites that are in the same business to yours or sites that regulate your industry or are associations of your industry are ideal sites to get your website link.
Links to your website from other websites are as discussed earlier counted as plus points even if they are reciprocal links but if they are not reciprocated then that link holds higher value. It’s a good idea to develop reciprocal and non-reciprocal links, this is time consuming and requires time and financial commitment but is worth it long term to develop your website standing in the indexes.
META TAGS
Previously important but now not really read by Google but only possibly by Yahoo and MSN and some of the smaller engines.
Summary of Search Engine Rankings
Google, MSN and Yahoo search engine rankings are now vital for your business to succeed on the Internet, as the vast majority of people will use a search engine to find a product or service they need. Always think that search engines are there to provide the most relevant, important and correct information content for their users and this should be remembered when creating your website.