Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of increasing you're online presence by achieving higher rankings in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPS) in the organic listings. Purely white hat techinques should be used to ascertain rankings within the SERP's, and not techniques that are classed as unethical or black hat – this type of black hat activity can severely damage your companies online presence and can result in your website being banned from the search engines for a certain period of time.
Over 90% of all web site traffic comes from the search engines. Just because your site is listed in the search engines doesn't necessarily mean that your customers can find it.
Search Engine Optimization and Positioning is an art and science, it involves a tactical and strategic approach using creative techniques using an in-depth study of the search engines, and it's not a simple matter of adding a few tags that contain your important keywords or word stuffing your pages with duplicate repetitive content.
1. On page Optimisation refers to the work carried out on your entire website, this ensures it is search engine friendly and includes the key phrases at an appropriate density and in the appropriate way for the search engine to give your site more relevancy than others.
2. Off page Optimisation refers to broadening your base and establishing your site within the online community. A high level of off page optimization is successfully achieved by submitting your site to relevant, high page ranked websites, portals and directories etc, this will increase page rank and in turn your online presence in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPS), when a website points to you this is deemed as a positive vote for your website, the more votes you receive the more you are rewarded.
The main focus here is on page optimisation
On Page Optimisation
On page optimization is the work carried on your website which is visible on your website, or is directly linked to from your website, with the combination of off page strategies this will maximize your website and its ranking potential.
Web Sitemap: - Helps to provide a thorough website crawl. Very useful tool for humans and web spiders
Robots exclusion file:– This can effectively funnel rank power, links that are useful to humans and search engines are completely different things when it comes to SEO.
Validation: - This will vastly improve Spider-ability; this increases the amount of pages the search engine spiders visit and cache in their index.
Enhance search engine spider ability – Search engines find content by following links – links have to be optimised to their full potential. A page that cannot be crawled for whatever reason cannot be ranked effectively.
Keyword Targeting – This will involve the correct implementation of the chosen key terms and phrases using the correct web standard syntax
Effective Category Structuring – Categorizing your products in a search engine friendly manor.
Creating a spiderable navigation – sometimes search engines find it hard to spider website navigation, we will ensure this task is made easy as possible for the search engines.
Enhance URL Structures – To encourage click through on SERPS and SE visibility
Appealing to linkers – Encouraging repeat visits
Site Architecture – Well organized information architecture provides semantic and usability benefits
Meta Data and Syntax - (title, sub titles, header, images, Meta data, doc text etc)
Optimising Internal Linking
Search Engine For Site
Search engines are looking for one thing. Great unique content. When you search for a phrase they want to get you the most relative information. They spend all there time figuring out just how to do that.
The second thing that they look at is if your site is an authority site on the topic. If you have these two things down your site is going to be listed high.
You are about to learn exactly how to get listed and give the search engines the great content they want and prove that you are an authority on the subject.
For the search engines to look at you as an expert on your topic you will need to have other authoriy sites linking back to you. All other sites linking back to you will help increase your sites listing but the expert sites linking back will give you more rank.
To review we need:
1. We must have great content.
2. Our site must be an authority site.
I'm sure right about now your saying, "Well that's all good but how do we do that?".
One of the best ways to do this is using Article Marketing. Creating Articles gets us great content and submitting our article to hundreds of article sites gets us the links to show we are an authority on the subject.
With Article Marketing you can not put any links to your site within the body of the article. They do allow you to put a resource or bio for your articles. In this box you will put something about yourself let your audience know you are a authority on the subject and then link back to your site.
For example if you have a site that talks about horse training then you might put in your bio, "John Doe has been training horses for the last 20 years. His site horse training tips is loaded with training tips for your horse."
The words horse training tips would be linked to your website. The bio shows John as an expert in the field of horse training. This is the method to attract people back to your site.
If you can't write articles there are many places you can sub-contract the work out to. These are FreeLance sites and you can get it done very resonably.
The next problem you might see is that there are hundreds of submission sites. There are softwares that you can use for this that will make this much easier.
Once you have your articles submitted to the article sites you will notice that you site will begin showing up in the search engines. This is because submitting to these sites gives permission to others to use your article. They must include your bio box.
It will only take a few days and your site will begin to spread. Many authority sites will pick up your article and give you the authority we are looking for.
The search engines spider these authority sites and you get listed. In a few weeks your article spreads to many more sites and you begin to gain rank.
That's the way to get your site listed quickly in the search engines. It has been being done this way since the internet first started it worked then and it still works the same today. The reason it works is you are giving the search engines exactly what they want.
The most important thing is that you take this information and use it.
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