Top 8 Essential SEO Techniques - By BlamAds

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Title Tag ? When we?re talking about SEO Technique, the Title tag is one of the best and most powerful tags that you can use. Every page should have it?s own title tag, each tag should include the keyword that you are targeting, along with sub-keywords associated with the main keyword that you seek to drive traffic from.



ALT Tags ? These tags are most often ignored completely. Who would have thought that tags, that were meant to be for text browsers because the images didn't show in text browsers, would become part of a technique to raise the keyword density of a webpage. Your main keywords need to be included in some

ALT tags- be careful, over-doing this could cause you to be banned and your PR could drop.



Link Popularity - Link popularity is the most powerful SEO tool, (arguably, of course). Typically a website must have a link to it, in order to be looked at by the spiders. This means that you should have at least 1-2 links going into your site from another website that has been visited by the spiders through search engines. Increasing Page Rank, depends on the number and quality of the sites that link into yours. Keywords should be in the links, along with sub-keywords. Keep the links short; this creates an easily readable keyword term for the search engines to recognize.



Keyword Density ? Research first ? Then decide on the keywords that you want to target. Don?t over do it- you should use the keywords only once in the title tag, once in the heading tag, once in bold text, and then shoot for the density to be between 5% to 20% . Keywords should also be strategically located throughout your website. Place them in all locations. Several search engines will recognize bottom of the page or sidebar text/links and discount them, this is because many website designers will load certain sections with clutter.



Page Size - Try your best to keep your web page over 5k and under 15k in size. I just designed one that is close to 53k, this is mostly because of pictures and a flash file being used, rule of thumb?. Look at Yahoo! And Google, These are some of the fastest loading pages, and most popular, people don?t like to wait ? even if you have ?cool? graphics and pictures. Your web page's speed is important: robots will be able to spider your web page faster and easier.



Theme Rich in content - Search engines are looking at themes rather than just the words or pictures. Content is King ? I know, you hear it a lot, but it?s true! Webpages should have content that's related to the targeted market. Link your visitors to other valuable and related content within your own site. The more pages the better. A good tool that I have found to show you linking info is: http://www.UpTimeBot.com You can preload up to 20 pages and then refreh them, it shows all the vital information, along with how many pages are indexed from each search engine.



Cross Linking within your Own Site ? You rely on other pages linking into yours ? in order to get indexed; the same is true for all the pages within your site. Any new content should be easily reachable through 1-3 pages of content. Linking back to your main home page, or a storefront will help you get indexed faster and achieve a higher Page Rank.



Tweet and Re-Tweets - Having a large following on twitter can help you site indexing. Simply having people re-tweet your tweets will help your site index lighting fast. This twitter should be tied to your sites email.


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Some pretty basic techniques but so important. Thank you

helped me a lot ! thnx!!!

My #1 Technique Tip: Test your site, especially using one of those "Search Engine Spider Simulator" tools. If you put tons of effort into it, but somehow manage to block out the Spiders using some weird code, you are screwed.

This is pretty much the usual Tips that every SEO website or blog offers as advice

nice round-up.

Thanks for the tips but I have a question..how do you account for a retail website. For example I just started a website that has thousands of products (sex toys, clubbing clothes etc..) and I did some research on keywords and found a few I liked but because of the large number of categories the keyword % is very low, I cant really blog on the site as it is a retail site, how do I optmize this?

Oh I did a Site:google search for the domain and I noticed that after a week the only pages showing up in google are the links I posted to the brand new FB fan page...

So obviously if you want your site to start showing in google pretty quickly post a link to it on FB.

Well you have a lot of products, thats pretty similar to a movie site etc. no keyword optimized content. Even then, i never had much trouble ranking. You can either choose a lot of low traffic/low competition keywords and perhaps get some fast but low amount of traffic, or go for the bigger boys like "best net shop for xxxx" or something like that. If your knew i would recommend going for the easy keywords first to keep you motivated as your traffic slowly rises.


But to be honest, im no SEO guru at all, im also new in this but i got my foot pretty far into the gold mine Maybe some other "experts" can give you an advice

Good Luck people

good read thanks

Why doesnt anybody tell you that SEO, starts with the keyword not the links,alt tags etc.

Choose a good keyword and you wont need to SEO, that hard.

Great article. Thank you for sharing the knowledge. May I ask the benefits of keyword density at 5% - 20%?

Keyword Density - Research first - Then decide on the keywords that you want to target. Don't over do it- you should use the keywords only once in the title tag, once in the heading tag, once in bold text, and then shoot for the density to be between 5% to 20% .

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Keyword density 20% isn't over doing it? Think about that for a moment, one in every five words is the keyword.

5% is too much, 4% is too much, 3% is too much, 2% is boarderline-ok (but not if you have it in two different H tags), 1.5% is about the max anyone should be doing.

For everyone who would say "yeah but look at this page, they're 10% keyword density and they rank well" ... then lets get a little more specific ...

Any website which is new, easily sandboxed, receiving spammy type links with one keyword anchor text and that keyword is on the page more than 2% ... you're looking at Google penalties for that page.

Just write naturally, remembering to include your keywords two or three times in a 500 word article. 5% is way overboard.

phpbuilt is right, a keyword density of 20% is so freaken spammy I doubt it would you get anywhere but the sandbox.