Top Tips And Techniques To Improve Search Engine Rank Of Your Website.
1. FOCUS ON KEYWORD.
Choose Your Keyword:
The first and most important step is to choose the right
keywords for which you wish to rank well. You have to focus on
this because all your efforts are going to be centered around
this. While doing this for your home page it is important to
adopt the same procedure and target different keywords for
different pages of your site. This is because search engines
match each query with the most relevant page and not the site.
Target The Right Keyword:
Optimizing your site for a popular keyword and securing a high
page rank is not enough. You should optimize for the right
keyword that is most relevant to your site otherwise your
efforts will be in vain. The keywords that you choose should be
specific. Since there is fierce competition for popular single
word keywords, it is better to choose two or three word phrases
that specifically describe your site content. Though you might
obtain a good page rank with a very well optimized site and it
appears high in the results, if no one searches for them in the
search engines you are not going to enjoy the benefits of a high
PR. so choose one that is reasonably popular and ones that
people actually type.
2. INTEGRATE KEYWORD.
Once the right keywords relevant to your site are chosen, you
should now integrate these keywords into your site, placing very
special attention to places where Search Engines look.
Website URL:
It is very important that you have at least one of the important
keywords in the URL.This will help the search engine to
understand what your site is all about.
Page Title:
To improve page rank the page title is another important place
to integrate your keywords. Since this too gives an indication
to the search engine useful information about your site. Though
most sites use the same title for all the pages, it is better to
have different titles with specific keywords integrated into it,
reflecting the content in that particular page.
Page Content:
It is a well known fact that the page content or text is most
important to search engines. So to improve page rank you should
focus all your attention to ensure that the targeted keywords
are well represented in your content. Unless these keywords
appear in the text your chances of obtaining a good page rank
will be remote. In addition to having your keywords in the text
of the page three very important criteria should also be adhered
to, which is very often overlooked by most webmasters.
a. Use keywords frequently but do not stuff your page with
keywords. Search Engines do not approve keyword stuffing.
b. Place your keywords close to each other. This helps the the
search engines.
c. Place the keywords near the top of your page in the page
content.
3. OBTAIN LINKS FROM OTHER SITES.
To improve search engine rank another important thing you should
do is to get other sites to link to you, because the number of
links, linking to your site is a measure of popularity. Most
search engines consider link popularity as the most important
factor in deciding the relevance of a site. It becomes obvious
that you should put in a lot of effort to get as many sites as
possible to link to you.
If it is a new site get a link from a website that has already
been listed in search engines.
Search Engines look at not only the number of sites that link to
you but also the quality of the sites that link to you. In other
words a link from a popular and relevenant P7 site is much
better than several links from smaller sites. Hence quality is
considered more important than quantity. A judicious mix of
quality and quantity will help improve search engine rank.
4. META TAG:
It is an embedded HTML tag that contains descriptive
information, keywords and other information about a web page and
does not appear when the web page is displayed in a browser.
There was a time when search engines relied on Meta tags to
assess the site's relevance and rank them. Most Search Engines
no longer rely on meta tags since they have developed new
systems for this purpose. Nevertheless it is advisable to have
them to improve search engine rank.
5. ALT TAG:
Another important aspect that is often overlooked is the
importance of ALT tags. Search Engines don't index images. They
can't read them; so to fix this problem there are ALT tags which
are descriptions of images that are recognized by search
engines. So to get the search engines to recognize the images on
your site, ALT tags with keywords can be used which will in turn
help you to improve your rank in search engines.
Finally a word of advice, do not try to trick the search engines
by using unaccecptable techniques becuse it will not pay in the
long run and you could get penalised. By following these methods
you will succeed in your attempt to improve search engine rank
yourself and be happy and proud of your achievement. Advice from
a Specialist will certainly be of help if your intention is to
reach the top.
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