mercredi 30 janvier 2013

Search Engine Optimization In This Era

By Joyce Loto


It may seem like it is you against the world sometimes when it comes to dealing with search engine optimization. With the vast amount of information available online it can be nearly overwhelming at first. This article will provide much helpful information for you to get started on the right path.

Holding a contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes is a great way to attract visitors to your website, but make sure you find out about the applicable laws in your area. Checking out a competitor's website to see how they run their contest is a great place to start your research, but don't just copy their rules verbatim!

Use appropriate keyword density in all your content. If you are overdoing keywords, search engines pick that up as keyword filling, and they will often reject the site from the SERP (Search Engine Report Page). You want to moderate use so you are providing quality content that has the right amount of keywords to be found in a relevant search.

Use plenty of pictures on your site, and include captions on all of them or around them. Spiders cannot search your photos, but they can search through the text on your site. Using the photos to enhance your site is a beautiful way to get around those pesky spider programs.

Avoid adding too much SEO content to a site that is already ranking well and pulling in site visitors. You can actually hurt a well ranked site by adding material that you haven't really carefully thought through. If not done carefully, the major engines may even classify your site as spam. If your site is doing well, just keep up the status quo and keep the additions to a minimum.

Start a blog to increase your search results for long-tail keywords that focus on more niche aspects of your business. These keywords do not fit well in your main site content. However, writing specific blog posts on more defined keywords, draws additional site traffic. Blogs are also, more likely to receive links from other sites and increase your ranking with Google, because fresher content is crawled and indexed more often.

When picking keywords to emphasize for search engine optimization, the singular form of a keyword is usually more popular than the plural. (e.g. "Boat" gets more hits than "Boats.") The opposite is true for a certain minority of keywords. Webmasters should research the most common terms in their fields to find out which case holds true for their keywords.

Choose a good URL. A good URL should include keywords related to your business. Do not include numbers or acronyms: people will not look for these things. If your business if a brand name, use that name in your main URL but make sure you include keywords in the path to certain pages.

To optimize search engine results, never change or retire a page without a 301 redirect. A 404 (page not found) is the absolutely worst case scenario a server can deliver. A 301 redirect tells the search engine the new ULR and transfers that into the search position. Learning how to do a 301 redirect is simple and will keep your search engine results optimal.




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