Search Engines (closely tailed by Social
Network Traffic) is the number source
of traffic on the internet. The ability to be found in the Search Engines
should
therefore be a key objective of your Website
Promotion efforts. Better still your
promotion efforts should aim at securing the highest position possible
for your
targetted keywords in the Search Engines (more about targeted
keywords later).
Businesses spend 1000's of dollars on securing good web design only to
find that
their new website is nowhere to be found in Search
Engines or is simply buried
under a pile of other competing sites. Search
Engine Optimization Strategies are therefore designed to
take a site faced with such obscurity to the top of the Search
Engine results page (SERPs). In this case,
we are refering to Organic Search
Results where ranking is achieved naturally as opposed to paid
search results like
Google Adwords that appear highlighted at the very top of result pages
and in a
column on the far right (which we talk about elsewhere on this site).
Some think Search
Engine Optimisation Strategy should simply be about
pleasing the search engines. However, we rather think that all SEO
Strategies should be about making a site and its content highly relevant
and readable for
internet users who rely on the Search
Engines to find the content they need.
In other words, the Search
Engines are not the 'end' but the 'means to the end'
So if we seek to please them then we need to do so only in the expectation
that we
will thereby please the internet users who depend upon the Search
Engines for
reliable content. For me this is the defining philosophy that seperates
true SEO from
search engine spamming and will keep you out of trouble.
Let us now consider some of the known ways search engines collect information
and see how we can utilise this to better prepare our site.
We will concentrate here on on-site
SEO optimisation (what we can do on our
site to improve our search engine position) as opposed to off-site
SEO
optimization (what we can do outside our site that can also
help ).
Search
Engines use special programs known as robots or spiders which
crawl
websites and retrieve copies of files found on those sites. In doing so
they ignore
all graphics (so it doesn't matter how beautiful a site looks); they read
only text
and follow all links on the site. These information is then processed
for inclusion
into their database ready to be delivered to search engines users searching
for
information.
Thus when a search engine robot visits our site, it is looking to collect
the most relevant
and useful information to meet the demand of search engine
users.
Further it looks in certain places of our site to determine whether such
relevant
information exists.
Once we know these, then it becomes clear that the object of our SEO
is to
ensure that our site carries relevant
information and which information are
presented in a manner to ensure that they are easily found.
So let us Remember that our site is concerned with a particular Niche
(specialised
subject area) and there are certain Keywords
for that Niche
our potential visitors
will use in Search
Engines to find sites like ours. The presence of such Keywords in particular places within our site as well as their quantity
in relation to other
content (keyword density) will give search engines a good clue as to the
presence
of relevant
content on our site.
The first place a search engine will look to see if relevant information
exist on our
site is the Keyword
contained in our domain name. So our first priority is to choose
the right domain name for our website.
Next, the Search
Engine robot will check the source codes of our web page
at
the very top looking for the page title and site description. Of all the
contents in the
top part of the source codes (i.e the head tag), these two are by far
the most
important parts the Search
Engines take into account. Infact, every site listed in
the Search
Engine Results Page are listed by their title and description.
Once the robot leaves the head section, it looks for our site heading
which are normally found towards the top of web pages in very big bold
characters (contained within H1 or H2 tags just like
the heading of the current page your are reading).
We should also bear in mind that because robots read our web pages from
left to right much like the human eye, there is usually a tendency for
them to first read the top left part of your web page before getting to
our page heading. So we need to make sure we place some of our important
Keywords
in that top left hand corner above the list of site contents as well as
sprinkle them within the site contents lists (look at the top left corner
of this page for an example).
The next thing we should do is make sure our Keywords
are used in reasonable
quantity throughout the site (about 5 to 7% *Keyword Density) and
are spaced
out within our content which should be unique (duplicate and outdated
content
have no place in SEO
Strategy).
Our Keywords
should occur naturally as part of readable content. This means
we should take care to avoid Keyword spamming (which is deliberately repeating
keywords in sentences just to target search engines without adding any
real
value to the sentence structure).
We can also make use of our Keywords
in naming our site files, tables, images,
describing ALT and Title attribute of images and for the texts of our
links. This
will help increase our *Keyword Density, which is the number of times
our
Keyword appears on a web page or website in percentage terms compared
to
the total number of words on that page or site.
Organic Search
Engine Optimization is an ongoing process which is carried
out
on a regular basis (either daily, weekly or monthly) to maintain a site's
top ranking
position. Just imagine you are in a race with your competitors, if you
are ahead
and you stop running, they simply overtake you.
Since it also works the other way round, the good news is that as a beginner
you
have the opportunity to catch up and overtake those competitors who have
gone
to sleep and become complacent as a result of their success.
Since Effective
Search Engine Optimisation is what we do to make Search
Engines find our site and most importantly find our relevant
content, Internet
Article Marketing is regarded as the best example of off-site
SEO, which is optimisationoccuring outside
the site but having direct positive impact
on our site by means of bringing in web traffic.
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