Sunday, May 19, 2013

How To Employ Effective SEO Practices

By Lynn Magliocca


Search engine optimization is an art, a science, a mystery and, to the inexperienced, a great big pain. But it need not be so! A little learning goes a long way towards demystifying the whole process. The ideas that follow will show how small changes to a website can have big impacts on the way search engines treat it.

When setting up a page for SEO, avoid the temptation to set up text or links specifically to manipulate search engines. For example, text that is the same color as the page background, text that is invisibly tiny, or links that are only a few pixels wide, will set off alarms at the search engine. These "black hat" methods can get your site banned entirely from the listings.

Many people still make the mistake of thinking that all they need to do in SEO is to cram as many keywords as possible onto their homepage. Not so. While it is important that your homepage contain some keywords, it's also critical to make sure you have keywords sprinkled throughout your site, since all pages that link to a homepage ultimately count towards its search ranking.

When you have determined which popular search engine terms to use, be sure to place them in your HTML title tag. You should do this because search engines give title tag content the most weight out of any of the other elements found on the page. Also use these phrases in title, tags, and description of your videos that you post on video sharing sites.

In order to optimize incoming links to raise your search engine rankings, try to have links to different parts of your website, not just your homepage. Search engine spiders read links to different parts of your site, as meaning that your site is full of useful and relevant content and therefore, ranks it higher.

Use analytics to track collect data. This will provide large amounts of very useful data about the traffic on your site. You will be able to see were the visitors of your site had come from, how long they are staying on your site and what it is that they are doing on your site.

Today most major search engines offer specialized local listings. For websites with any kind of real-word presence, registering with these local listings will improve search engine performance. Any additional features of the local listings - like maps and reviews - should be taken advantage of to increase a website's total exposure.

As stated before, search engine optimization is used to make websites appear higher on search engine results. Websites are more likely to be seen by visitors if they rank higher on search engine lists, making optimization a useful tool. By using the information in this article, you can use search engine optimization for your website.




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