1. Submit Your Website
With time Search engines and web directories will naturally find your site on their own. Who wants to wait ? Help them help you, submit your site to search engines and web directories.
2. Can your site be crawled?
Forget Flash! Search engines have a hard time crawling flash, do a check using a SEO Browser to see what the Search Engine sees.
3. Have sitemap
Your site needs to have a sitemap, XML or HTML, both is better! Submit your sitemap to the Search Engines so that they can crawl your entire site.
3. Each Page Is Unique
Keep your URL address and Meta tags, and title of each page unique, duplicate tags cause dillution and will mean you will not rank as highly.
4. Use The Alt atribute For Images
Search engine spiders are unable to read images. The alt text attribute should describe the image, or else the content is meaningless for search engines.
5. <H1> Does More Than look Pretty!
Include your primary keywords and your header tags (h1, h2, h3). Keywords in these tags help Search Engines determine topic relecance.
6. Create GREAT Content
Users are looking for content, information, give them what they want. Analyse their needs and deliver relevant content.
7. Create Linkable Content
Give surfers a reason for people to link to your website and thereby drive more traffic to your site. Provide information, humor or argue. Inbound links increase your rankings and send you more traffic.
8. Users Are The Final Judge
Design a visually appealing website, don't clutter it with banner ads and conveluted navigation. Do a browser compatiblity check and make sure that it displays correct in different browsers.
9. Be patient: SEO Takes Time!
It takes time and energy to build website traffic, expect to only see results of what you did today in 6 months. Pay per click ad campaigns give immediate results, but if you stop paying then they stop working.
10. CheckYour Rankings
Keyword tracking provides invaluable knowledge. Contact us for a free keyword report that can help you get started.
