What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
The act of publishing and marketing information in way to improve search engine understanding of
website content.
***Arguably the best marketing strategy ever as it enables you to reach unlimited people with even
the smallest budget.***
- The only three main search engines to worry about are Google, Yahoo, and BING.
- Currently Google receives 75% of all searches.
- Believe it or not YouTube even receives more searches than Yahoo and BING now.
Google is powerful so you need to focus your efforts around them related to SEO.
- Search engines make money with advertising and they get people to perform searches by providing relevant results to their users.
- If someone types in Titleist golf club into a search engine the expected result is that.
- The users don’t want to come to a page that has information on Calloway golf clubs or even worse a page related to golf bags or golf balls.
- Search engines have a vested interest in providing the best results possible.
- You need to make your pages and your website as relevant as possible.
- There are several different on page optimization factors that you can do to make your pages search engine friendly and more relevant for the search engines.

- Put Yourself In Your Customer’s Shoes
- What problem does my product (or service) solve for my typical customer?
- See What People Are Already Searching For To Find Your Website
- Google Analytics, Webalizer, Awstats (Cpanel)
- Consider Related Keywords
- Pet Supplies – Dogs, Cats, Birds
- Adwords Keyword Tool
- Adwords Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)
- Search Within Competitor Websites For Their Keywords
- Run Google Searches
- BING Search
- Related Searches On Right Side
- Google Insights (http://www.google.com/insights/search/)
- Google Trends (www.google.com/trends)
- Competitor Websites
- Remembers Plurals and Synonyms
- auto parts (car parts, automobile parts)
- Merged and Hyphenated Words
- Misspellings
- Add Keyword Modifiers
- Buy Nintendo Wii, Cheap Pet Supplies, Best Price Motorola
- Remembers Plurals and Synonyms
- auto parts (car parts, automobile parts)
- Merged and Hyphenated Words
- Misspellings
- Add Keyword Modifiers
- Buy Nintendo Wii, Cheap Pet Supplies, Best Price Motorola
Below list the sections we need to deal with web design for optimization
- Title tags
- Meta tags
- Header tags
- Internal link structure
- URL structure
- Structure of content.
- Title tags are the single most important on page ranking factor out there.
- <title>Your Keyword-Rich Title</title>
- Should have the exact phrase you are trying to rank for.
- The exact main keyword phrase should be at the very beginning. SE read left to right.
- You should repeat the keyword phrase or a plural/singular version of it.
- Keep in mind that singular and plural keyword phrases come up differently in the search engines.
- For example: laptops and laptop produce totally different results. So you want both in your title tag.
- Sample of good title tag:
Dog Collars - Find the Best Dog Collar for Your Dog
Weight Loss – Your Source for Weight Loss Tips
- Meta tags including the meta keywords and the meta description have a very minimal part of making you rank high in the search engines, BUT they should be used!
- Your meta description is especially important because it is what the search engines will typically pull from in the search results.
- You need to include your main keyword phrase for the page in there and a call to action.
- The meta tags should be used very carefully, but it should only include the pages main keyword.
- Examples of good meta descriptions:
Get in touch with a Tulsa, Oklahoma chiropractor that this both trustworthy and reliable.
Working Capital Financing - What is working capital financing? Working capital financing is the lifeblood of your growing business.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Working Capital Financing</TITLE>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Working Capital Financing">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Working Capital Financing - What is working capital financing? Working capital financing is the lifeblood of your growing business. If you have commercial real estate and income producing equipment, you can obtain a working capital loan that can help pay down credit lines or accounts payable thus paving the way for growth opportunities. What is the typical loan amount and terms?">
<link href="App_Themes/Main/Main.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> </HEAD>
- Header tags, after title tags are extremely important to your on page SEO.
- In the HTML they look like this: <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6>
- For example the <h1> typically generates the largest font so it is the most important one that the search engines look at.
- The header tags act like headlines on your web page.
- Your header tags should look natural. They would be like sub-headlines on your page.
- For example:
<h1>Your Source for WSU Cougars Gear</h1>
Article…………goes…………..here…………
Article…………goes…………..here…………
Article…………goes…………..here…………
<h2>Buy WSU Cougars Gear and Save!</h2>
Article…………continues…………..here…………
Article…………continues…………..here…………
- Your website should be easily spidered by the search engines.
- Your internal links should be text based links.
- www.petronic.com
- You need to use anchor text when you link into pages within your website. The keywords should be part of the link. For example: <a href=http://www.yourdomain.com>Chicago lawyer</a>
- You should have no more than two links from your home page to your internal pages.
- Use a sitemap and an RSS feed if possible.
- The sitemap contains all of your links.
- Sitemap links are all text based URLs that basically helps the search engines spider and pick up all of your content all at once.
- Your URLs or links should contain your main keywords in it. For example
- www.yourdomain.com/miami-pest-control
- www.yourdomain.com/wilson-tennis-rackets
- Use the permalinks from Wordpress to do this.
- Name your HTML files in your web editor. Do this on your future links and pages.
- Your articles on your site should contain your main keywords near the beginning of them.
- Articles should be broken apart with the header tags in between.
- You should try to include your main keyword once or twice in the first paragraph and place it anywhere that makes sense in the next paragraphs.
- Try to include your main keyword in the last paragraph of the article.
- Perfect Keyword Density is a Myth!
- Don’t get caught up in keyword density with your articles at all.
- Write for humans and not for search engines and the search engines will appreciate your content.
- Write unique and relevant articles.
Target 1 keyword phrase per article