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These are some most effective SEO tips
Keyword Stuffing
This is name given when there are too many references to your keywords. Google may decide that you are a Spam Site and demote or sandbox you.
Google Sandbox
If your site upsets Google your site may disappear from the SERPS and effectively be sandboxed.
SERP
Search Engine Results Page: you want to be on the first one or two for your keyword phrase.
On Page SEO
This refers to all you can do optimize your website or web page for SEO as apposed to the more difficult Off Page SEO which includes back-linking, blogging, Social Website marketing.
Broken Links
Everyone dislikes broken links, missing images, Google does as well and will down rate your site. Use a link-checker website to get a report on your site
Well structured site with good navigation
Anything that makes your site easy to navigate for humans will generally make it easier for Google to explore and index your site.
Web Silos
This is the sectioning of your website into different themes that are hardly inter-linked but have a lot of internals links.
Visit Competitors Websites
When you put your keyword phrase into a Search Engine go to the websites that appear on the first page and see what they are doing right.
Read their Meta tags look at their layout, keyword frequency; is there anything you can learn from them?
Viewing your website as a visitor would
It’s important to try and view your website as others might. The could ask a friend or colleague to review the site, how easy it is to navigate your site and what he perceives the message to be. Also there are many websites which will analyze your site from a SEO point of view.
Why you will succeed with your SEO
You will succeed because you painstakingly apply what you know. Every significant image with an Alt Tag, relevant and different Title and Meta tags on every page, good focused content, intuitive site navigation and so on. This requires persistence and patience and many people frankly can’t be bothered or get fed up halfway through, if you don’t then your website will do better than theirs.
Add new content regularly
Search Engines like fresh content, in fact they pride themselves on their ability to index new information.
Meta Keywords Tag
Focus on phrases, rather than single keywords in your Meta Keywords section
Meta Keywords Tag
Use a maximum of 10-15 keywords/phrases in the Meta Keywords tag on each page of your website. Make sure they different for each page, a maximum of 400 characters including spaces, commas.
CSS
Put your CSS in includable stylesheet files eg /css/main.css this reduces the clutter on your page and makes life easier for the Search Engine Robots who index your site.
robots.txt
A little file in your home directory which tells the search engines what NOT to index.
Anchor Text
You will often see a hyperlink Click Here The clickable bit is called Anchor Text It is essential in SEO terms to get your Keyword Phrase in there instead eg Click the following to learn more about Baboon Hairbrushes .
Page/Off Page SEO
On Page SEO is everything you can do on your Website to optimize your SEO. That in a way is your easy part because it is under your control. Off Page SEO is everything you do to get other people to link to your website it also includes all the links you can get back to your site Backlinks by posting in forums and by social marketing (Facebook, Twitter etc). Once again the quality and relevance of any links is very important.
Back links
Links to your site from other relevant quality websites and forums. One-way links to your site are the best as they imply that your site is the important one. Best if from a related site with a high Google PR. Should not be from a link farm.
Local SEO
Many service-based businesses such as plumbers, dentists are only interested in attracting local customers. Local SEO is currently very big.You need to get local geographical information into the website.
Traffic Retention
Once your hard-won visitor decides to leave your site make sure that as many as possible of the hyperlinks leaving your site are to OTHER websites you own! Don’t have just-for-the-sake-of-it links to Wikipedia etc.
Keyword Density/Saturation
This is the number of times your most important keyword phrases are repeated on a single page, helping to indicate how that keyword is the “focus” of what the webpage is about. Most webmasters aim to get a 3%-7% saturation rate for their most valued keywords or keyword strings. Search Engines may penalize saturation above these levels, don’t risk it.
Google Analytics
The easiest way to keep track of visitors especially if you have lots of websites is to use Google Analytics (free). Tell you how many visitors per day, month. Where they came from, what keywords they used to find your site etc etc
Pay Per Click
This is legitimate way to buy traffic. However many people lose money with PPC as it is a skill in itself.
• 43Canonical URL : http://www.baboonhairbrushes.com/
Not http://baboonhairbrushes.com/ not http://www.baboonhairbrushes.com not http://www.baboonhairbrushes.com/index.html
• 44Linking to your pages
Don’t link to /hairbrushes/ in one place and /hairbrushes/index.php in another, Google will split the link-juice between the two versions it will NOT assume that they are the same. Lesson 1 be consistent. Lesson 2 use the short form /hairbrushes/
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