SEO optimization, also commonly known as (SEO) and (SEO optimisation), should be included in your checklist prior to publishing your blog posts. It stands to reason, if your website isn’t in the search engines results pages, Internet users won’t be able to read your article content and share it with other people! Therefore, you should know at least some of the basics about search engine optimisation.
Many SEO experts want you to believe that you’ll need rocket scientist intelligence, in order to do some of your own search engine optimization. However, since there is much you need to know about SEO, you could be faced with a need to hire an SEO optimization firm. The problem is, SEO fees are usually too costly for most individuals and small businesses to afford.
In spite of all of this, there is actually some good news. There is no need to become a rocket scientist to do your own SEO optimisation, by any means! However, there are several things that you can implement without hiring an SEO expert to improve your sites optimization.
In this blog post, I will cover some proven SEO optimization techniques that are easy to apply. These SEO techniques will get your content seen by more people and crawled much easier by the search engines.
SEO for Beginners:
* Provide your readers with quality content that is unique and original. Remember, that you are writing for your readers, and their opinion could differ on what quality content is. It is very important to pay attention to your readers comments and questions that they ask. This will help you connect with your audience and provide them with the type of content that they are looking for.
* Frequently update your blog with new posts and don’t let your content become static. You need fresh content, otherwise the search engines could slow down the frequency that they visit your site. Furthermore, you’ll lose the attention of your readers as well! The key is providing fresh new content that offers your readers something of value. If they find it to be interesting, you’ll increase your chances of people linking to your web pages. You’ll want incoming links, because they are necessary to obtain high rankings in the search engines. When you write your blog posts, ask yourself the following question. What’s in it for them?
* You’ll need to do some keyword research to target your audience and their interests. There are many free online keyword tools that are helpful to find relevant keyword terms to target your audience. Review your web page stats to see which keywords and key phrases are used to find your content. This will give you a good idea of what their interests are.
Online keyword tools that are used by the Spunky Jones:
* SEO Logs
* Solo SEO
* ABAKUS Topword
* thesaurus.com
* Your title is one of the most important elements when it comes to SEO. Your title must relate to your articles niche, and to the point. It should contain one or two keywords and should be compelling to your readers. The title should also appear at the top of the post page as a h1 tag.
* Make use of the robots.txt file and specify what areas of your site shouldn’t be spidered. There is no sense to waste bandwidth and have the search engine’s spider’s things that are unnecessary.
* Avoid the use of flash because it can prevent search engine crawlers and spiders from crawling your site. Remember that the search engines prefer text and can’t crawl flash very easy, if not at all.
* Be sure that you use images in your posts and the image “alt tag”. Utilizing alt tags with your images can help you improve your results on Google Image Search as well.
* Make sure that your HTML markup and CSS validates. Cleaner code makes it easier for the bots and spiders to index. The more content that gets indexed, increases your changes to be found in the search engines.
Popular Markup Validator used by Spunky Jones:
* W3C Markup Validator
* Avoid duplicating content, blackhat SEO techniques that could get the search engines to penalize you. Stick with ethical SEO, and be patient.
* Another word on being patient. Depending on the age of your site, it could take some time before you’ll see the results. Focus on publishing quality content that your readers will find useful. Give them a reason to revisit your website and to link to it.
The main goal of SEO optimizing is to attract more readers to your website to view your content. Therefore, build your site on solid rock and not on quicksand, and don’t lose your sight of the reason for optimizing your website.
Additional thoughts:
Be sure to checkout DupeFree Pro and CopyScape which are great plagiarism detection software programs for writing your articles.
Hope this blog post was helpful to you, “SEO Optimization Made Easy for Beginners” Be sure to share this post with your friends on Twitter. Furthermore, I appreciate your time that you have spent here!
Spunky Jones.
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