Best SEO Tips for 2013 – The SEO Guide
Due to the latest trends and updates of Go(d)ogle, black hat techniques for SEO are no longer working. We cannot cheat search engines. Just apply some white hat techniques and get ranked well.
I’m not saying that these tips will make you float on #1 of SERP but I can say that they will give you better knowledge of SEO than now.
Best SEO Tips
These SEO Tips are my experience. I also read almost all articles related to this topic and I’m writing all the SEO tips here. I hope you will enjoy this article and learn something new from here.
Generate Great Content
The most important part of your website/blog is content. No matter how much SEO you do but if you content is of least quality, then you can’t defeat those Search Engine Algorithms for a while. Generate great content without any grammar or spelling mistakes. Google also checks a webpage for grammar and spelling mistakes.Make it as much informative as you can. Bold, Underline and Italic words when required. Use bullets, lists and images to make it unique. Don’t copy from anywhere, and if you do, never hope for good search engine rankings. Also keep updating your blog with fresh content. A post per week is enough.
Target one Keyword per Page
Don’t try to target multiple keywords in one page. You should target one keyword per page only to optimize it correctly for particular keyword. If you will try to target two or more keywords per page then it is possible that you fail for the both because it would like keyword abuse to search engines.Optimize URLs for Search Engines
It’s better to use proper keyword name in the URL to make it search engine friendly. It is better to use “http://www.rightblogtips.com/2012/12/seo-tips.html” rather than “http://www.rightblogtips.com/p=?129″. An ideal SEO-friendly URL is that describes about the whole web page in few words. Like this page. Check URL of this page
Optimize Images for Search Engines
Search engine bots cannot see images and understand them. Only humans can do this. So we have “alt” HTML tag for this. You can add a keyword-rich description for a image via using “alt” tag. Also use keyword as the image name. Here is an example of it:Use “<img title=”Cute Puppies” src=”http://xyz.com/cute-puppies.png” alt=”Cute Puppies”>” instead of using “<img src=”http://xyz.com/image_027.png” >”. The optimized structure will make search engine bots understand the image. You may rank well in Image Search Engines via this too.
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Use Meta Tags
Use meta descriptions and meta keywords different for every post. This will make search engines know about the whole page. Keep the meta description keyword-rich. These are not only for search engines but also humans will show this in search engines. So write a attractive meta description. Also use meta keywords for every post.Don’t use Flash and Images as Text
Flash may make your website stylish but it means nothing to search engines, they can’t read or understand it and they ignore it. They can’t crawl links in flash file. Use jQuery and CSS instead to make up the elements.Also Read: What to do before Writing a Blog Post?
Also avoid using images as text or headings because search engines cannot read it. So use plain text instead of this Flash and Images.
Generate sitemaps and Submit them to Google
If you have a big site then you must create sitemap to make search engines aware of each and every post and page of your blog and get them indexed.For wordpress there are plugins already available to do this job. If you are on blogger, then use Google Webmaster tools and submit sitemap to Google.
Use Social Bookmarking
I asked many pro-bloggers about SEO tips and they said that SEO is social bookmarking. The more social shares you get = the more exposure.Try to get as many Google+’s as possible. It affects your position in Google search results page. Share each post of your blog in every social bookmarking site you are on. It will give you traffic as well as SEO juice. Make social media sharing easy for your visitors. See above, there 3 sharing buttons, if you are enjoying reading this then you may like to share it.
Maintain Keyword Density
Try to maintain keyword density between 2%-3%. If your keyword density is more than 5% than the article will look keyword stuffed which is considered as a black hat technique. If you are using this then your site will look like spam and no more will be indexed by search engines.Be Patient
Be patient when doing search engine optimization. No matter how unique and best is your content and SEO but you won’t get ranked within one day or week. It takes time to get ranked well. After publishing a post, do link building for it with anchor text of the post and wait for results.To get backlinks whit anchor text of post title, comment on commentluv enabled blogs. It will allow you to get backlink with anchor text of your blog post title. Here is a Huge List of Commentluv Enabled Blogs.
And a tip I forgot to tell is that – write lengthy and informative articles rather than writing short ones. But yeah, don’t mess with quality ever. Even if you can’t write a long article then it is okay but anything what you written must be unique and high quality.
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