The most important thing to keep in your mind when you are optimizing for search engines is what your end goal is.
In case you are not sure what your goal is, let me state is here nice and clearly. Your goal is to have your page number one in the search engines.
It might sound obvious to you to say this but the fact is that many people get caught up in the logistics of search engine optimization (or SEO) and forget what the ultimate goal is. There are several SEO tips and tricks that come in handy.
The following list will simply refer to them as SEO tips but think of them as both SEO tips and SEO tricks.
SEO TIP #1
Be clear on what you are selling and focus on that phrase.
If you have several key phrases, chose the one that is most important to have spotlighted and focus on that phrase.
SEO TIP #2
This follows directly out of Tip #1.
If you have several phrases you want optimized, then build a single individual web page devoted to each phrase. While you could put all your special key phrases on a single page, it dilutes the optimization effect if you have several key phrases in one article.
SEO TIP #3
This trickles out of Tip #2.
The phrase that you focus on should be something that someone is apt to type into the search engine but is also needs to be something that is discussed on your web page.
Nothing annoys people more than searching for something and getting a result and finding that the page has nothing at all on it about their search term.
SEO TIP #4
Speaking of the phrase that people might type into the search engine, it is a good idea to have a phrase not a word as your SEO hook. What I mean here is that don’t have gardening as a key word/phrase. It is far too general.
Even organic gardening is too general. Organic vegetable gardening is better. Organic root vegetable gardening is more focused.
If your key phrase is three to five words long you can have a more targeted niche.
SEO TIP #5
Once you have your key phrase, use that phrase in your page’s title. Now this is a SEO trick that has been overdone – at least in Google’s eyes.
Other search engines like the phrase as the title but Google seems to be suspicious of phrases that have been over-optimized.
The way around this, if you want Google’s attention is to make the title twice as long as the keyword phrase. For instance “organic root vegetable gardening” could be called “beginner’s guide to organic root vegetable gardening”.
There you have five important SEO tips and tricks.
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Your seo tips are very good, it helps us a lot.
hello, nice post ..currently am handling few no of sites and am also new to SEO.. will try out this..thanks a lot
I always end up getting more traffic from three to five word keywords than I do using the concrete powerhouse keywords that are really hard to get ranked for. The other 4 tips are definitely something to pay attention to.
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