Top 5 Search Engine Optimization Tips
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You may have heard many times about the ways you can optimize your site for search engines. Optimizing your site can allow the search engines to extract the important information from your page, making your site appear for more relevant search queries. Search engines may also better rank your page, so it appears at higher positions within results pages.
I have compiled a list of the best 5 ways (in my opinion) to optimize your site for the search engines:
- Put keywords in your title. Try to place keywords relevant to your site in your page title. This will give the search engines a better idea of what your site is about, and also allows searchers to quickly determine whether your site is relevant to them.
- Use Headings. Using headings in your webpage gives some structure to your page, and makes searching the page for relevant information quick. Try to place some relevant keywords in the headings, which give a clue to what the paragraphs below it are about.
- Use alt="" in images. As images can't be understood by search engines, you should provide an alternative textual description of the image. You can do this using the alt attribute of the HTML image tag. Here's an example:
<img src="dog.jpg" alt="Dog jumping into the air" />
- Use META tags. You should use META tags within your page, to describe what the document is about, as well as provide relevant keywords and define a language.
- Use a sitemap. Create a sitemap to show all the pages of your site. I recommend you add your sitemap to Google's Sitemap service, or Yahoo's service.
