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Step 10 – Test your website
Now you have done quite a lot to improve your websites ranking in search engines. Maybe you only have adjusted one or a few of the seo-tips suggested? Anyhow, I always recommend testing your site. Human testing Find one person … Continue reading
Step 9 – Images
Spiders can’t search images, only text. Make sure to include an “ALT” tag when you publish images. All images should have an “ALT” containing a description for the image. Use your keywords in the description. It also matters what you … Continue reading
Step 8 – Sitemaps, xml and html
Create sitemaps. They make it easier for spiders to search your website. Make sure to have both xml and html-sitemaps. This is a site where you can create you xml-sitemap: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Step 7 – Html headings
Make sure to use HTML headings. Do not use them as a design technique, like making the text big or bold. Headings are important for search engines and they use headings to determine both content and structure of you website. … Continue reading
Step 6 – Speed of your website
This can be a tricky part but it’s both for the search engines AND the human visitors that it’s important to have a fast website. It often varies a bit on different web-hostings but this can be hard to know … Continue reading
Step 5 – Internal links
If you want your website to get fully indexed you should make sure that all spiders have an easy path through you entire website. You can use both images and text links here. If you in your text for example … Continue reading
Step 4 – Optimization with keywords
Now you need your list of important keywords. To simplify it a little: the content of your page should include the selected keywords. Do not overdo it! The term keyword density refers to the percentage of your content that is … Continue reading
Step 3 – Site structure
A solid and simple structure is important. It has to be easy for spiders to crawl and yet very attractive and understandable to your visitors. A search engine reads you web page kind of like humans read. It starts at … Continue reading
Step 2 – Meta description
All of your pages should have unique descriptions. Try to write descriptive and interesting text that are relevant to the page. The Meta description should preferably be kept under 155 characters. Meta description html: <head> <meta name=”description” content=”Here you should … Continue reading
Step 1 – Domain name and page titles
It’s a good thing to have a clean, nice and relevant domain-name. Search engines take the name into account when showing search results. If you want visitors to find your site thru the search term “beginner seo” it can be … Continue reading