Tuesday, November 11, 2008

On Page SEO - Make Sure You Have Done These

By Anson Hall

As you may probably know, SEO can be divided into two parts. They are on page and off page SEO. You will need start your link building campaign if you would like to do the off page SEO. On the other hand, you will also need to concentrate on your website itself and do the on page SEO.

The first thing you need to consider is the main theme of your site. It is very important for you to think about this. This is because your theme will affect your main keywords. On the contrary, if your site does not have a main theme. You may not really know what keywords should you target at when you are creating the contents of your site.

It is very strange that some webmasters will create articles on weight loss in a finance site. In fact, the articles you created should be also following the main theme of your site. Taking a finance site as an example, you will not create articles about breast caner in your finance site. Yet you will create articles on topics such as loan and insurance.

The articles themselves are very important. However, you will also need to consider the meta tags of each page. The title tag is extremely important. It is even more important if you are fighting for some competitive keywords. As a result, you will try to put the keywords in this tag.

The next two meta tags you will need to consider are the keyword and description tags. In the past these two tags were extremely important. Of course they are less important nowadays since Google does not really take them as parameter for ranking. However, there is no point to neglect them since there are engines which still take them as parameters for ranking.

As mentioned, the external links to your site is very important. However, the importance of internal links between the web pages should also be stressed. A good interlinking system will help to make the search engines to index your web pages a lot faster. As a result, you should put some effort on this issue.

The outbound links from your site is another important issue. You do not just link to some sites which are not related to your sites. The sites you are linking to should be relevant sites. It is preferred that the site you are linking to bear similar themes as your site.

Undoubtedly you will need to spend the time to work on your on page SEO if you want to see the results. It is also important to understand that. You may need to be patient and wait for at least a few months in order to see the initial results! - 15478

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