By Tom Greaves
Any new online business owner or website owner needs to know search engine optimisation in order to drive and serious traffic to their site. In order to do this you are going to need to understand the basics of SEO. I have been an SEO consultant for 6 years and want to give you a very basic insight into what you need to do in order to optimise your site from start to finish.
The first step is always going to be identifying your keywords. Use the Google AdWords keyword tool to help you find the main keywords searched for that are relevant to your product or service. You should be looking to collect 10 - 15 high relevancy and high traffic keywords.
Once you have these keywords in play your SEO efforts need to change to focusing on building a decent size keyword list. You should use all your main keywords to find different variations. These keywords will be used in the body of your website content, the main 10 - 15 keywords need to be used in your page URL's and tags.
OK it is time to implement these keywords into your site. The main 10 - 15 need to be placed in your URL, title tag, heading tags and Meta tags. You should also consider using them in the ALT attribute if you have images on your page.
The keyword variations need to be used in the body of your main content. Try to keep them dense in the first 100 words of your site, however not so dense that it looks spammy. The average keyword density for a site should be between 3 - 8 percent.
Now as a final on page factor you need to ensure you site has no usability problems or visibility problems. Submit you site to Google webmaster tools and manually check your site for broken links. Ensure that all you pages can be found no more than 3 levels from the home page or 3 link clicks from the home page.
Your biggest challenge is going to be off page optimisation and building quality backlinks to your site. You can article market, send out press releases, become involved in communities within your niche leaving your link in comments or you could simply ask other webmasters. However there are 3 important aspects to remember when building links. One, make sure the link is from a relevant page, two make sure it is from a page with a high PageRank and three, ensure you anchor your text with your main keywords. This all creates relevance and helps Google list your site under the correct keywords.
SEO is a waiting game even for an SEO consultant. The skills required to perform effective search engine optimisation will take time to learn and understand, however there is lot's of free info available online and through SEO communities.
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