Thursday, May 12, 2011

What Are The 5 Things To Remember In Search Engine Optimization

By Nicholas Lancaster


Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is used to improve the position of your website in search results. To ensure that your site is optimized, you need to take certain steps as there are many elements involved in SEO. This is because the search engines alter their algorithms regularly, partly to ensure that sites that use 'black hat' SEO methods are not rewarded for their efforts, and partly to ensure that they provide their users with relevant search results.

Search engines carefully hide their algorithms and methods of ranking and while SEO is not an exact science, there are ways in which you can improve your search engine ranking.

Build SEO into your site Following guidelines is important in order to improve SEO including site maps, meta tags, and keywords. Professional assistance may be needed in order to do this properly.

Content and why it's important Not only should your content be optimised for your keywords, it should also be relevant and informative. If your site is filled with keyword stuffed sentences that don't make sense, then it won't be favorable with the search engines.

Useful back links Back links can help push your site up in the search engine results, but should be used wisely. Links from credible websites with high page ranks are worth more than those from link farms but any site that contains a link to your website is considered a back link.

Facts about Keyword Research Striking a balance between competition and number of searches are your keywords. It won't help ranking for a keyword that no one searches for and ranking for a keyword that has a lot of competition is difficult. To ensure that your site is optimized for the right keywords, regular keyword research should be used since keywords change over time.

Measure and measure again Useful in optimizing your website is tracking your web traffic, the pages they land on, where that traffic came from, and the keywords they searched to find your site. Helping to keep your site optimized is regular monitoring and adjustment.

If you consider what most people click on the first three search results, then SEO is vital since less than 40% of people will go to the second page of search results. With effective SEO, your site can rank for specific keywords even if not all websites can rank on the first page.




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