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Before I continue, I can't take credit for the tips here, I have Brad Callen to thank. Most of this article are his tips and I have his permission to use some of the content to show you too. I hope you find them useful as I have
Add a Title
The page title should:
Include ONLY our main keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the title, the more weight Google will give to each of the keywords and the higher you will rank.
Note: When I say "Google", I'm really referring to all the major engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN). But I am saying Google because this is the search engine you should really focus on optimizing for because Google gets roughly 50% of all the searches on the web. Yahoo receives about 30% and MSN about 20%.
When creating your page title, it should not look like this:
* Welcome to our website!
* This is the html code used to create this title: <title>Welcome to our website!</title>
It should not even look like this, which does contain our main keywords, but contains an unnecessary number of words:
* mastering forex trading and forex chart picture and free forex tutorials
* This is the html code used to create this title: <title>mastering forex trading and forex chart picture andfree forex tutorials</title>
Although that title isn't horrible and does contain all of your main keywords, you should do a couple of things to cut down on words used.
This would be a perfect title for your webpage:
* Mastering Forex Trading| Forex Chart Picture | Free Forex Tutorials
* This is the html code used to create this title: <title>Mastering Forex Trading| Forex Chart Picture | Free Forex Tutorials</title>
Notice that I've:
* Taken out all of the "ands"
* Replaced one of the "ands" with a "|" character (Note: You can add this character by holding the shift key on your keyboard and pressing the backslash key above the enter key or to the left of the Z key.)
* Combined the keywords " Master Forex Trading " with "Forex Chart Picture"
Always Combine Your Keyword When Possible to cut down on the total number of words that are in your title!
Always Combine Your Keywords In The Page Title!
When Google looks at our title, it will see all 9 of our keywords only. Combining keywords to cut down on the total number of keywords displayed in the title is a great way to boost the strength of each individual keyword, which will have an immediate impact on your ranking.
Add <h1> header tags
Next we'll need to add 1 <h1> header tag and place our most important keyword there.
The <h1> header tag should be as far towards the top of the page as possible. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page.
Note: Here's a neat free tool which allows you to visually see how the search engines view your webpage: http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml
So, it's best to place your <h1> header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page. You can think of an <h1> header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page.
For example, the <h1> header tag of this lesson would be:
"How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 400 positions!"
... And the html code would look like this:
<h1>"How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 400 positions!"</h1>
Of course, I would have changed my lesson title to contain my main keyword if I was actually trying to optimize this page for Google. Also, if possible, it's ideal if you can include ONLY your main keyword within the h1 header tags. <h1>Mastering Forex Trading</h1> would be perfect.
Add <h2> header tags
Next, we'll need to create an <h2> header tag. This can be thought of as a sub heading for our webpage. You should place your 2nd most important keyword in the <h2> header tag. The <h2> tag should be placed somewhere towards the top half of your webpage.
A good <h2> header tag for our example would be:
* <h2>Free Forex Tutorials <h2> (Usually it's best to place your primary keyword in your <h1> tags and your secondary keyword into the <h2> tags.
After we've done this, we need to actually create the content for our webpage. When writing the content, try to evenly sprinkle your main keywords throughout the copy. Don't overdo it though.
Try to mention each keyword in a natural way as you are writing, but be sure to include at least one of the keywords per 1-2 paragraphs, depending on how large your page is.
Tip: Make sure to mention your main keyword at the very top left and the very bottom right hand side of the webpage. A trick I was taught and like to use is to include this in the copyright information line at the bottom of the website. For our example, this would be a good example:
© 2006 copyright www.ask-me-about.com get your free unclaimed money
Notice that it flows and doesn't really look too strange.
Bolding, italicizing and underlining.
Once we've finished writing the copy, we should go through and bold, underline, or italicize some of the keywords only 1 time each, maximum. Only do 1 per keyword or it will hurt you more than it helps. This isn't crucial to do, but it's good to maybe do this to a couple keywords...
Properly include <alt> image tags
Next, click on the very top image of your webpage (This is usually your website's header graphic) and include an <alt> image tag using the text "Learn to Trade Forex for free " if you're adding this alt text to your website header graphic. Click on 2 more graphics throughout your webpage and enter your other 2 keywords, plus an extra word like "graphic" or "image"... For example, we would use "Forex Chart picture graphic" and "Profit making image". This ensures that Google won't view this as spam.
For example, if we have an image on our webpage called: website.gif
The code that would be used to insert the image would look something like this:
<img src="website.gif" width="250" height="80" border="0">
Now, if we were to add an alt image tag called "Forex Chart picture graphic", we'd simply do this:
<img src="website.gif" width="250" height="80" border="0" alt="Forex Chart picture graphic">
Force Google to Read Your Keywords First!
As stated above that Google views your webpage from top left, to bottom right? Well, in general they do. But because most websites contain a left hand column which contains all of their navigation links...
Google WILL View all of the text in the left hand column Before the Body of the webpage.
How can you get around this? I was taught a neat little trick that will ensure that Google reads the actual body of your webpage before the left hand column containing your navigational links.
To show you what I mean, look at the simple table below to see the order of information that Google will view this webpage. Because of the way most people creat the tables containing their content. I've coloured the borders so you can visually see the way some sites are designed.
(1) header graphic |
(2)Navigation Text links
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
|
(3) Some text that describes their website |
Here is what you need to do:
Rather than creating a table that looks like this:
Navigation Text links
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3 |
Some text that describes their website |
You should create a table that looks like this:
| |
Some text that describes their website |
Navigation Text links
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3 |
See how I've changed the website above, so that Google now sees our content BEFORE our navigation menu:
(1) header graphic |
(2) Left empty or some caption note |
(3) Some text that describes their website |
(4)Navigation Text links
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3 |
I've designed my site like this which is still ok for as long as it reads the body content first.
(1) header graphic |
(2) empty |
(3) body content |
(4) empty |
| (5) Navigation Text links
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3 |
(6) Navigation Text links
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3 |
(7) footer |
By doing this, Google will read the top left hand row/column first... BUT will see that it is empty or only contains a couple words in this case, so it will then read the body of your webpage and then read the 2nd left hand row/column which contains your navigational links! :-)
That's all there is to it!
In summary, I really want to point out the fact that, although good onpage optimization is something you'll really want to do, it is NOT how you make dramatic changes in your search engine ranking!
Important! Let me repeat that again, onpage optimization... which is what I've taught you thus far, will make small changes in your ranking, but WILL NOT help your site make dramatic jumps in ranking.
This is one of the biggest misconceptions in the search engine world. Many believe that by getting your keyword density just right, or by moving your keywords around on the page in just the right places, you'll really move up in the search engines.
That is not the case at all. It is the offpage optimization factors that will get you high rankings. I will teach you exactly what offpage optimization factors are, AND how to make sure you optimize these factors perfectly for Google!
The next topic "Getting indexed in Google within 24hrs"
Introduction to SEO | On and Off page Components Part 1 | On and Off page Components Part 2
Boost Rankings in Search Engines | Getting Indexed In Google In Less Than 24hrs |
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