The title itself is pretty straight forward and self explanatory so it should be a cake piece when it comes to this right? Hmmm …
If it’s so easy, cut and dried, every website out there will rank at the top, that’s not the point, is it? The truth is that good SEO is a combination of standing on the web, researching your competitors, writing quality content and understanding how web crawlers work. Adding just meta tags and keywords to your head tag will unfortunately not “get you there”.
So how do you get started? Hopefully this article will help you a little with these SEO tips.
Do a little research on the web first. You will be amazed that there are so many tutorial sites out there that will get you started. Not everything is right for you but you will definitely get a good grip on SEO.
Writing quality content – this is the main area that you should pay special attention to. The general rule we follow is:
Page title:
- Number of characters – up to 70 characters
- Number of words – up to 10 words
- Keyword density – the higher the better
- Keyword dominance – the more the better
Body:
- Up to 3,000 characters
- Up to 500 words
- The higher the better
- The higher the better
- Keyword Count – up to 4 keywords
Meta description:
- Up to 150 characters
- Up to 20 words
- The higher the better
- The higher the better
- Up to 4 keywords
Meta keywords:
- Up to 150 characters
- Up to 20 words
- The higher the better
- The higher the better
- Up to 4 keywords
Think and plan your SEO strategy. Choose the text of your content carefully and make sure it is a good description of your site page. You may want to individually SEO all your web pages – go ahead but make sure each one is unique to its own page.
Check back later:
The meta tag REVISIT-AFTER defines how often a search engine or spider should come to your website for re-indexing. This tag is used for websites that change their content regularly. This tag can also be useful for boosting your rankings if search engines display results based on recent submissions.
Sitemap:
Create a sitemap of your web pages. A sitemap is a way to tell search engines about the pages of your website that might not otherwise be discovered.