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Keyword Optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is about adding finely tuned keywords and phrases to your pages so that you can bring as many relevant visitors to your site as possible. Web site optimization (WSO) is the process of optimizing web sites for maximum speed, which ideally includes SEO as part of the optimization process. WSO and SEO are often used interchangeably, but they are different. WSO is an umbrella term that can optionally incorporate SEO, while SEO is devoted solely to raising search engine relevance to acquire relevant visitors. Now that we've got that straightened out, let's look at what we'll cover in this chapter.
To fully optimize a web site, you need to optimize its keywords. Although the focus of this book is on speed optimization, it's important that you optimize your keywords so that your audience can find your site. A lightning-fast web site won't succeed if no one can find it. This chapter summarizes keyword selection and placement techniques that you can use to maximize the search engine positioning of your site.
How Search Engines Rank Sites:
Prominence
Frequency
Weight or Density
Proximity
Placement
Off-the-Page Criteria
Keyword Optimization Guidelines
Determine your keyword phrases
Sort by popularity
Refine and combine keyword phrases
Sorty by popularity again (repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed)
Write a title using your top two to three phrases
Write a description meta tag
Write a keywords meta tag
Add keywords into key tags and attributes, and mix well
Submit to search engines
Watch the hits roll in
Summary
The purpose of search engine optimization is to make finding your site easy for users who are interested in your topic areas. By tagging your pages with the phrases that best match the overall theme of your site, you can ensure that users will find your site when searching for content like yours. Choose popular - but not too popular - phrases that best describe your site, and use them strategically within your pages. Studies have shown that a restrained approach works best with popular search engines like Google.
Target multi-word phrases unless your keywords are unique.
Gather external links on high-ranking sites like yours through tireless PR and compelling up-to-date content.
Use word stemming and proximity grouping to maximize hits and minimize words.
Find your optimum keywords through iteration, popularity, and WordTracker's KEI.
Write a keyword-rich title tag. Put the top keyphrase up front.
Use your optimum phrases in your title, h1 through h6, meta description, meta keywords, and body text, and link URLs, text, and title attributes.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is about adding finely tuned keywords and phrases to your pages so that you can bring as many relevant visitors to your site as possible. Web site optimization (WSO) is the process of optimizing web sites for maximum speed, which ideally includes SEO as part of the optimization process. WSO and SEO are often used interchangeably, but they are different. WSO is an umbrella term that can optionally incorporate SEO, while SEO is devoted solely to raising search engine relevance to acquire relevant visitors. Now that we've got that straightened out, let's look at what we'll cover in this chapter.
To fully optimize a web site, you need to optimize its keywords. Although the focus of this book is on speed optimization, it's important that you optimize your keywords so that your audience can find your site. A lightning-fast web site won't succeed if no one can find it. This chapter summarizes keyword selection and placement techniques that you can use to maximize the search engine positioning of your site.
How Search Engines Rank Sites:
Prominence
Frequency
Weight or Density
Proximity
Placement
Off-the-Page Criteria
Keyword Optimization Guidelines
Determine your keyword phrases
Sort by popularity
Refine and combine keyword phrases
Sorty by popularity again (repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed)
Write a title using your top two to three phrases
Write a description meta tag
Write a keywords meta tag
Add keywords into key tags and attributes, and mix well
Submit to search engines
Watch the hits roll in
Summary
The purpose of search engine optimization is to make finding your site easy for users who are interested in your topic areas. By tagging your pages with the phrases that best match the overall theme of your site, you can ensure that users will find your site when searching for content like yours. Choose popular - but not too popular - phrases that best describe your site, and use them strategically within your pages. Studies have shown that a restrained approach works best with popular search engines like Google.
Target multi-word phrases unless your keywords are unique.
Gather external links on high-ranking sites like yours through tireless PR and compelling up-to-date content.
Use word stemming and proximity grouping to maximize hits and minimize words.
Find your optimum keywords through iteration, popularity, and WordTracker's KEI.
Write a keyword-rich title tag. Put the top keyphrase up front.
Use your optimum phrases in your title, h1 through h6, meta description, meta keywords, and body text, and link URLs, text, and title attributes.
