SEO Secrets

We are shedding light on the biggest secrets for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and what you can do to get your website to the top of the search engine lists. Although it takes time and patience to really develop your SEO, this is our list of the best kept secrets to help you get the best ranking for your website.
1. Create a Google Places listing for your business.
2. Make sure that your website loads quickly by making the images within, as small as possible- not only is this good for SEO, but it keeps users interested as they aren’t hanging around on a blank page.
3. Keep up to date with your content, it is so important to have interesting content, and lots of keywords make sure your site gets picked up quicker.
4. This being said, don’t use too many keywords, remember it’s humans reading it, so don’t make it too convoluted.
5. Get a blog! Adding a blog section is a great way to improve your SEO, you can out source it, or link to interesting articles you have read so it doesn’t have to be too much work. Make sure that your blog is under your domain name to help your SEO.
6. Don’t have broken links on your website that generate nasty and irritating errors.
7. Server locations do actually affect search engines ranking. Make sure that your server is in the same country as you are.
8. Use keyword descriptive filenames for your content.
9. Make sure your website is able to be accessed easily, if people have to download software to view it then they simply won’t!
10. Describe all your images and have ALT tag text.
11. Google ignores Meta Keyword tags, so these aren’t useful for your SEO.
12. Don’t worry about other search engines, the top three that you need to think about are Bing, Yahoo and Google.
13. SEO is all about Links, make sure you get links to your website from reputable sources.
14. You can gain links by writing “How to..” guides as these are popular and people love to link to these.
15. Submit articles to E-zines and link these back to your site.
16. Set up an RSS feed that your users can subscribe to, to see all your updates as they happen.
17. Social bookmark all your content, if its relevant.
18. Create a Facebook fan page, Google loves Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn so use this to your advantage, and link to your website from them all!
19. Answer questions on forums and yahoo, you are an expert so you can help and of course, link back to the website.
20. Don’t duplicate content, the more duplicated the content the easier your site will be indexed by Google. When this has happened it won’t show at all!
21. Have a ‘Most Popular’ or ‘The Best Of” category menu in the side bar of your blog.
These 21 tips will help you move up the search engine list as you move, hits are likely to increase as you gradually hit the top spot. We’d love to see your efforts, so when your site finally makes it to the top spot with the search phrase you desire, send us a screen shot!

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