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Guide to Search Engine Optimization
What is Search Engine Optimization?
Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short is modification done in the web site design, coding, content and/or structure of a web site in an effort to achieve the higher ranking within search engines. Search Engine Optimization are done to attend the highest ranking in the search engine results for some targeted keywords or key phrases.
Search engine optimization can be enforced on the website while designing it or can be performed after a website is designed. It is a technique that can be used to develop a website, which is search engine friendly. Most of the search engine uses a software called "crawlers" or "spider". The main motive of these software are to check the website create their index (search engine index).
The method of getting search result is different for each search engines. Search engine applies many techniques to index the web pages and include into its directory. So the next time if your web page ranking high within one search engine and not in another then do not bother, it's because of different method used by these search engines. To rank higher in all the search engine you can do the things which is used by all search engines. You have to track all the changes happened in the search engine operation or method of spider software for getting search results and accordingly modify your web sites.
The process of search engine optimization includes the optimization of the following items:
Analyzing Site
Site Designing
Promotion of website and
Maintenance of website.
Important things to be remembered while Optimizing Your Web Site
A better optimized site rank high. Optimizing a website is not about tricking with the search engine, instead you should design your site both search engine friendly and human friendly. Many people spends lot's of money and uses latest technologies to achieve the target business by their website, but unluckily sometimes they fail in achieving. So it's essential to optimize your site in right way, in order to get successful online business by standing ranking-high in major search engines and able to attract lot's of clients. For optimizing a website always plan a good strategy.
Search Engine Optimization Strategy:
Research your keywords
Check rankings with search engines
URL Submission
The Title tag
Meta Description and Meta Keyword Tags
ALT Tags
Content of the page.
Link building
Search Engine Optimization Strategy
It is vital for every website that wants to stand rank-high in major search engines, to plan a strategy before developing or while optimizing an existing website. A well planed strategy can help in achieving the targets easily. A well optimized site attract targeted traffic by attaining very high positions in the search results.
Search Engine Optimization Strategy can including;
Give relevancy Title
A title is nothing but a focal point of the content written in your page. It gives the main idea of whatever written in the page. Whenever search engine searches for any topic it always checks the title and subtitle of the page first. So it becomes important to give an appropriate title and subtitle, sometimes a relevancy keyword can be useful in Title. But remember it should not be too long, at most it could be 80 character long. A short and relevancy title can help to rank higher in search engines.
Title can be defined as:
Page Title
Title always follows closing tag and written in Head tag.
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Google is Quickly Changing...
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