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Following Just Three Tips Will Improve Your Website Optimization Strategy
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| Guest post by: Michelle Jayes |
Article Overview: Effective search engine optimization to your online business website is still one of the best methods of attracting traffic and will probably continue to be important for many more years. This is why it is essential, if you wish to have long term success, that you have a great strategy in place when it comes to SEO (search engine optimization).
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Following Just Three Tips Will Improve Your Website Optimization Strategy
Effective search engine optimization to your online business website is still one of the best methods of attracting traffic and will probably continue to be important for many more years. This is why it is essential, if you wish to have long term success, that you have a great strategy in place when it comes to SEO (search engine optimization). Website structure is equally important for ease of use as far as your visitors are concerned and this must be considered even when making your website search engine friendly.
Follow these tips for better website structure and improved results from your search engine optimization efforts:
1. Use your keywords or keyword phrases to name sections and sub-sections on your website. In other words if you utilize your section names with the main keywords you are targeting and you have enough content to create a section on your website, then there is a pretty good possibility that other people are also looking for the same type of information, which can improve your SEO tremendously.
2. Get rid of redundancy. This is something that has always been a problem in the creation of website structures and it is even more obvious with blogs. This is a problem that will be experienced by practically every single online website owner at some point. The thing that usually happens is that you end up with several categories or sections that appear to be almost identical. As an example you may have a category for Windows 7 and also one for Windows Operating Systems so it is easy to see that these two categories both cover the same topic. The only thing that is different between them is that the one category is general and the other is specific.
What tends to happen is that at some stage you may want to publish a page or a post under both of these categories which will create a problem, because once you split the links you will lose control over the category that gets linked to by others. There is the chance that if each post contains five links then you could end up having ten links to one single post. Even more disturbing is that where your competition may have seven links to one single post in one single category, not only will they finish up with more back-links than you for just one post but truthfully you could have been way ahead of them with a better website structure.
3. Keep the tiers to a minimum. It is very important in order to get the benefit of search engine optimization (SEO) that you limit the number of tiers in your website structure. Generally a business website will have 5 - 7 main pages on their navigation toolbar and each on of these pages will have sub-pages, known as the second tier. It is better not to go beyond this to the third tier as the search engine spiders will only index a portion of a website on any visit and if you take the ties too deep more than likely some of the pages will not be indexed.
There are a varied number of methods with which you can structure your website to gain the benefit of SEO or at the very least make your site more search engine friendly, and the good thing is that in the majority of cases these steps will also make navigation easier for your visitors
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