You can find a huge amount of hype in the Search engine optimisation industry probably because it is a techno field plus is very competitive so everyone is endeavouring to eyebrow everyone else and get the upper edge.
Being in my antiquated 40′s – hippy 1965 baby to be exact – I have been around the IT industry well before most of the current players were out of diapers. I was there in our computer room when they unveiled the latest hard drive – it looked like a modern day top-loader washer and was the same size! All up it held a ‘breath-taking’ 40 Meg of data. Yes that is right 40 Meg! When we saw the new micro PC’s come out we felt they would never take off (we must have had IBM blood in us!) and the IT journey went on from there.
Today my ‘long teeth’ dip in my beer and my eyeballs roll back in their sockets when I hear some of the hype plastered around the Search engine optimization playing field.
Yes Search engine optimization can be specialized but only usually when you got it completely wrong at the beginning – your site that is. If you did not hire an Search engine optimisation advisor to give you the rundown BEFORE you started building then you most definitely ended up with a website pierced with a thousand Search engine optimization holes. Websites like these normally takes some fixing without a doubt. Many web designers know nothing with regards to SEO and what they do know they rarely put into action due to the fact they aren’t requested to by you! Not hiring a good Search engine optimisation consultant is like constructing a three storey residence without having an architect and engineer and expecting the builder to get it right – no way.
I run into a great Search engine optimisation site once in every 100 web sites. This is a poor track record for web-developers. Nearly every other single site is a ship filled with holes sinking in the lower regions of page 196 of Google!
So aside from adding some vibrant pros to this piece I suppose I should add some substance. Well here it is – short and simple (well maybe not that short!)
Content is King
Google makes use of backlinks a lot right now to judge a websites popularity. However, it is currently super easy to generate backlinks of good quality in significant volumes to unbalance the ranking game. Google knows it’s got to find a way to balance this out. When it does, most people’s position will come crashing towards the ground overnight.
On the other hand, Google always wants Top quality content material – the best it can display. If you have this, then because content is the only reason why we have search engines in the first place, your website will usually do well no matter what twists and turns Google puts its search engine algorithms through.
Never ever forget that content rules in the SEO jungle. Forget at your peril.
We battled to get content on customers internet sites for so long until we built it into our SEO ranking packages. We now offer a content and back-linking service (SEO.SIMPLE.) that solves this inherent problem. Now our clients get fresh unique content on their web sites weekly and gain ranking results from it seeing it is Search engine optimisation optimised as well.
Your content delivery engines needs to be well tuned
Don’t think that anyone can easily simply add content to a website and miss out on the platform you happen to be adding it to. Google wants to ensure that the content material is not only the best for the keyword and key phrase requested, but it also gives one of the best user experience. So be sure to cross your T’s and dot your Search engine optimisation eyes when it comes to ensuring your internet site delivers the best experience such as performing these :
Make sure your server is quick – Google a short time ago added this one – upgrade today if it takes too long to load your webpages
Be sure ALL images have ALT tags WITH meaningful content
Make sure every page has a UNIQUE page title relevant to the content of the page
Fix Canonical issues (were http://www.yoursite.com and http://yoursite.com and http://www.yoursite.com/index.php etc all resolve to the same page but have different addresses. Instead they should all redirect to a single page and that page should be utilised throughout the site in all links. If you are on a UNIX based server this can be fixed quickly usually through the htaccess file)
Make sure there are at least 300 words of meaningful text on any page – the more the better for Google
Make certain that if you are using a Website cms that the URL’s are fixed so only words show up (and preferably keywords) and not funny programming expressions and numbers
Whenever you create a link use a keyword(s) and not the notorious ‘click here’ as the anchor text
If you cannot add content material to your internet site (maybe you have a flash site), then at the very least add a weblog attached to your website – this helps a good deal
When you next renew your domain, renew not less than 3 years – of course longevity shows maturity and increases trust
Back links and more back links
And of course don’t stop back-linking. Right now it’s the powerhouse for Search engine optimization but don’t rely on this for the long term.
So I hope this has helped ‘de-hype’ some of the SEO resources available and helped you along the Search engine optimization road a little bit further.
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