Did you know that you could actually also use the images in your site to help boost your site’s rankings? Not all people do know about this one. They think that content is the main important part when optimizing a web site. But that is not true. Each image that you use in your site could also be used to your site’s advantage.
Now I must have gotten your attention already. So you’re asking me now just how to go about with that. Well, it is fairly simple. With a little tweaking on the HTML, you could go a long way.
First …read more

When doing search engine optimization on your site, it is important that you also do take into account the content. Well, what would a site be without content? Do you think visitors and guests to your site would love going back if there was no content? I honestly think that I would not be going back to a site without worthwhile content.
Now, that’s the thing that we have to consider. A site’s content is important. It is actually very important that most people in the SEO industry say that content is king. It is what brings people to return to …read more

Have you already applied the tips that I have found? Well, here is the rest of the list.

Static URL’s: Remember that all of your important pages should have short and static URLs and dynamic pages may follow those static pages. If unwanted lengthy URLs exist at your site then replace them with short.
Footer: Don’t forget to place links for all important pages at the footer part of your index page. This allows your visitors to jump at important pages with just a single click.
Robot.txt: Ensure that robot.txt is necessary at your website with apposite crawler notifications.
XML Site Map: Nowadays an …read more

And so you have wondered much about on-page optimization. Now, here are some tips that I have found over at Promotion World. I’ll be sharing the first 8 today and then the rest tomorrow.

URL Naming: If possible try to place your prime targeted keyword as your domain name. This will help you to advertise your business at the first impression.
Title Tag: Decorate your title tag with your utmost preferable keywords of your business in a smart and eye checking manner.
Meta Descriptions: Sketch your proper business announcement with simple words for catching concentration of the visitors who are searching similar kind …read more

Here’s another topic for our SEO Basics series.    Does the appearance of keywords in the body of your webpage affect its ranking?   The answer according to most of the SEOs is yes.    However, I do not recommend keyword stuffing.    Keyword stuffing is what you call when you put so many keywords in a page or repeat the same keyword over and over again.
So how many keyword occurences should there be?   What’s the right balance.   There isn’t a specific number but most SEOs think it is best to have a keyword density somewhere between 3% to 7% of the …read more

A lot of webpage developers use the H1/H2/H3 tags  for formatting.   Nothing wrong with this but if you talk about SEO,  these tags are very important.   These tags support the overall theme placed in the title tag.
Imagine for a moment that your webpage is an outline and the topic of your outline is the “title” of your page (the one in your title tag) and the H1 tags are your first level topics under your title.    Now H2 tags are sub topics that support whatever is in H1.
To give a example,  here’s a sample web page outline with the …read more