Sunday, October 5, 2008

Some useful SEO Tips

1.. Keyword Research:: A proper research for the right leywords is very necessary. One should make sure that he has done proper research of what keywords he want to target for his site.

2.. Header Tags:: The keyword or the phrase you want to emphasize on should be placed inside the header tags. Search Engines consider the keyword in header part as the most important keywords.

3.. Highlightening:: In order to put more stress on your keywords, don’t forget to underline or make keywords in italics. This gives more importance to your keywords that you want to emphasize on.

4.. Keyword Density:: Keep in mind that your keyword density should not exceed 3% of the total words on a page. It is considered as the maximum limit.

5.. Navigation:: Internal linking is again a very important factor. Your links to any page should not be more than 2 deep links. No more deep linking should be done.

6.. Contextual Links:: Try to push your visitors to your products in a natural way.

7.. Backlinks:: In order to gain rankings, you should try to gain quality backlinks.

8.. Visitors Interaction:: Offer some free stuff or provide free information on your site and try to interact with the visitor by creating polls or asking them for feedback.

9.. Regular Updation:: Regular updation and unique content is always loved by search engines. So try to make fresh content.

10.. Branch Out:: Don’t lose heart if you are not getting the results you expected. Wait for the right time and keep up the good work. Once you start getting results, try to make them more profitable.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Basics of SEO

SEO generally means Search Engine Optimizing. It refers to the technique of promoting a site for the targetted keywords and thereby driving traffic by making it easily searchable. It basically includes two techniques,viz.
1. On-Page Optimization
2. Off-Page Optimization

It is the process of converting visitors to your site to your customers.

A SEO is a person who is assigned the work of optimizing sites. SEOs consider how search engines work and what exactly people search for. They keep in mind, both the aspects, one is client aspect, and the other is search engine aspect. He has to optimize the sites in such a way that both visitors as well as search engines are satisfied. A site should be built in such a way that it does not violate any of the policies of search engines. There are two ways to optimize a site:: organic and inorganic. Organic includes free listings and natural links, while inorganic includes making use of PPC (Paid-Per-Click) campaigns.

The worth of a SEO is evalued by the method “Conversion Rate”. It is the percentage of visitors who take a desired action, i.e., how often a visit is converted into a lead or converting visitors to clients.

There are several tools available on the internet for checking optimization of a site, as well as the tools that assist you in doing SEO wisely.

In short, SEO is a very powerful, online tool in making a site easily searchable by visitors and in making a site search engine friendly.