Be The Hot Dog Stand - Search Engine Optimization
Be The Hot Dog Stand - Search Engine Optimization
The term commonly used for this is search engine optimization (SEO), meaning your site needs to be created in such a way that it is search engine friendly and laden with the proper key words. Here are a few quick tips to get your rankings up!
1. Know Your Key Words - First make a list of every phrase you can think of that people might use to find what your site is going to offer. Ask your friends and colleagues for input and try to find people that are within your site's target audience to get an idea of how they would search.
Once you have a good long list use search engine databases to refine it and see what people have actually searched for when looking for similar sites. If you have money to spend buy Wordtracker. Otherwise use Overture's free keyword suggestion tool.
Remember the more common the keywords the more expensive it will be to get to the first page. To help reduce costs, add a geographic term or extra common phrases. For instance if your market is in Calgary, then add that word to your phrase.
2. Insert Keywords Within the Title Tag - The title tag is located right at the top of your document. Have a look at your website in your browser. Have a look at the bar ABOVE where you typed the web address. The keywords that are in here hold a lot of weight with the search engines. Hopefully your Title Tag doesn't say Welcome!
3. Use Keywords as Anchor Text - In other words use the same keywords on a page's Title Tags to link to this page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.
4. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.
Adding the exact same text for your main header on the page will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Search Engine Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.
5. Sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or coloured in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.
6 Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.
7. Submit to the search engines yourself or get your web developer to do it. Do not use a submission service or submission software. Doing so could get your site penalized or even banned.
8. Have links back to your site from high traffic site - The more INBOUND links there are pointing to your web site from other relevant, related and complementary web sites, the better. If you are listed in directories, try to add your website address wherever possible.
Be The Hot Dog Stand Search Engine Optimization - To learn more about this author, visit Cidnee Stephen's Website.
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If you had to choose a business, which would it be - the most stunning store in the middle of nowhere or a hot dog stand in Central Park, New York? I hope you said the hot dog stand. It has a much larger chance for success even though it may not have cost a fortune to build. The same goes for your website. You are far better to relinquish some of your budget to being found than making your website just the prettiest one on the internet.
The term commonly used for this is search engine optimization (SEO), meaning your site needs to be created in such a way that it is search engine friendly and laden with the proper key words. Here are a few quick tips to get your rankings up!
1. Know Your Key Words - First make a list of every phrase you can think of that people might use to find what your site is going to offer. Ask your friends and colleagues for input and try to find people that are within your site's target audience to get an idea of how they would search.
Once you have a good long list use search engine databases to refine it and see what people have actually searched for when looking for similar sites. If you have money to spend buy Wordtracker. Otherwise use Overture's free keyword suggestion tool.
Remember the more common the keywords the more expensive it will be to get to the first page. To help reduce costs, add a geographic term or extra common phrases. For instance if your market is in Calgary, then add that word to your phrase.
2. Insert Keywords Within the Title Tag - The title tag is located right at the top of your document. Have a look at your website in your browser. Have a look at the bar ABOVE where you typed the web address. The keywords that are in here hold a lot of weight with the search engines. Hopefully your Title Tag doesn't say Welcome!
3. Use Keywords as Anchor Text - In other words use the same keywords on a page's Title Tags to link to this page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.
4. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.
Adding the exact same text for your main header on the page will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Search Engine Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.
5. Sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or coloured in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.
6 Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.
7. Submit to the search engines yourself or get your web developer to do it. Do not use a submission service or submission software. Doing so could get your site penalized or even banned.
8. Have links back to your site from high traffic site - The more INBOUND links there are pointing to your web site from other relevant, related and complementary web sites, the better. If you are listed in directories, try to add your website address wherever possible.
Be The Hot Dog Stand Search Engine Optimization - To learn more about this author, visit Cidnee Stephen's Website.
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John AlexanderJohn has taught keyword research and SEO skills to small groups of business owners and Webmasters from over 80 different countries world wide since 2002. John is also the Director of Search Engine Academy ; Co-director of Training at Search Engine Workshops offering live, SEO Workshops with his partner SEO educator Robin Nobles, author of the very first comprehensive online search engine marketing courses at SEO Training Online and the SEO Workshop Resource Center. I look forward to hearing from you! - Visit John Alexander's Website |
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Stephanie RobeyStephanie Robey is President and CoFounder of Pivot Positive, LLC - an Internet marketing business focused on helping people start work at home ventures. Previously, she was employed at The Search Agency with over 20 years experience in graphic design and 10 years experience in online marketing. She was responsible for launching the Conversion Path Optimization (CPO) unit where she and her team have conducted hundreds of optimization tests for online companies across multiple verticals. She is a successful entrepreneur having started and sold 2 companies and remains on the board of directors of the third, PhotoSpin.com Stephanie began her career in the direct marketing realm creating and producing direct mail for many of the major cable television companies and directly attributes her understanding of Internet marketing to those early offline experiences. Stephanie is a graduate of San Diego State University with a BFA in Graphic Arts and also holds an Executive MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. Read Steph's Blog Meet Steph and Dave Sign up for our Free 7-Day BootCamp: Self Employed & Rich - Visit Stephanie Robey's Website |
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