Tuesday, July 13, 2010

How to SEO review your website

Us your site a SEO friendly? What are the things you must first consider in order for your site to get a high ranking position? This article tells you the importance of Search Engine Optimization as well as the basic techniques on how to improve your website's position in major Search Engines.


If you have a website and thinking on how you are going to improve it's Search Engine Ranking considering it's SERP (Search Engine Result Positions) is not currently displayed in the top search pages, then it's possible that your website has not been optimized properly. Below are the tips on how you are going to diagnose your website and learn how to optimize it.

1. Search Engines and Positioning (SERP) – Check your website first if it has been indexed. Visit Google, MSN and Yahoo and type "site:www.yourwebsitename.com." Your pages must be indexed by the Major Search Engines. If you don't see your website, then it is not indexed properly. You must submit your site directly to the Search Engines so that spiders can crawl your site.

2. Link Popularity and your competitors – Link popularity defines the measurement of quantity and quality of sites that linked to you. The question is, how you are going to build link popularity in a right way? When exchanging links with others, make sure that the site is relevant to you. Avoid rebuilding links that are not associated with the nature of your business. There are ways to gain link popularity some of them are: submitting your sites to relevant directories, exchanging link to related partners, online promotions, article writings, and writing testimonials by describing your products and services.
You can check your link popularity and your competitor's site by using any link popularity checkers available in the Internet. Observe the quality links you have in the search engine results. The more links you have, the better. It indicates how many links that Search Engines sees. Make sure that your links are relevant to gain more popularity. You can also check your competitor's site if you want to see their links.

3. Meta Tags - Your meta tags are an important part of your on-page optimization, things that you do on your actual pages to make them more likely to be found by your target audience. To see your meta tags you need to look at your source code!
Meta tags are used in order to describe your website and important during your on-page optimization. Check your meta tags by looking at your source code to see if it contains: title, description, keywords, alt, etc. Some Search Engines rely on description tag first while others on keywords and vice versa. Do check your pages and see if each pages are properly optimized.
Optimized each pages in order to get an opportunity for the pages to get rank. Do always remember that it has meta tags on different pages!

All written above are just the basic techniques you should consider in Search Engine Optimization. It is not necessarily mean that if your site will get a high ranking position in an instant. It takes time for your site to achieve your goal. You can also do some thorough research on how you can improve your status in Search Engines or consult any Search Engine Optimization company for them to check what else is needed for your website. It is a trial and error technique. If you think you need to adjust your keywords, then do it. You can also start making a blog for your company in order to update them with the latest developments of your products and services. Just always focus on how you are going to optimize your site in order for you to gain and attract visitors not only for gaining traffic but also to convert them into profit.

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