Fantastic Suggestions For Optimising The Pages Of Your Website Development

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 12:14 am

Search engine optimisation can be one of the hardest and most rewarding tools in your online business arsenal. It helps with marketing, advertising and selling your products or services. There is so much involved, it is rather easy to go wrong. Here are just five of them:

Make Sure You Don't Under Utilise Your Site – You need to pay attention to every aspect of your website development. Most people think that the only important part is the content. This is just one piece of the bigger picture. When you concentrate on content and not on leveraging all areas of your site, you are robbing your own pockets.

With great content search engines will rank you well, but you could do even better by using those keywords in other areas. Remember that the page has a headline, an article can have a title and a picture has an associated caption. Now use all of these to help you.

Keyword Overload - Search engine bots are smarter than most people give them credit for. Using keywords too much will cause them to just skip over your content and thus give you a lower ranking for those keywords. It seems like you could use as many as you wanted in an article and that would make you more visible, but it’s not true.

Search engines recognise when people are cheating by overstuffing their articles with keywords. You should always stay within an allowable density. And, those keywords will show up naturally throughout the article so it doesn’t sound like it was thrown together just for the keywords.

Keyword Density - You can have too few keywords as well as too many. Some people actually forget about the key words when writing. You might have written the most informative article about a subject, but without giving the search engines the appropriate clues, they will be unable to rank you and no one will find your work. It's not sufficient to use the word once or twice in an article.

No Variety - For better optimisation, a website shouldn’t use just one keyword. For example, if your primary keyword is “chocolate,” then your whole website won't be based on that one word. People use a variety of similar words alone or in combination to find what they are looking for with search engines. Diversify, for example by using the words “chocolate treat," “how to make chocolate,” and so on and by not being too specific, such diversity will pay dividends.

Reciprocal Links - While it is true that back links can increase your search engine ranking, all links are not equal. And search engines like organic links better than simply offering reciprocal link sharing. You want others to link to you because they like your product and what your website presents to others. Using quality content on your site, in article directories and on social bookmarking sites can increase your quality inbound links for higher ranking.

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Michelle Dale is The Managing Director of Virtual Miss Friday, an Executive Virtual Assistant who assists businesses and individuals with achieving their professional goals. Want to find out more about online business building success strategies? Contact VMF Now!

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