SEO or search engine optimization is the process of increasing the volume of
traffic to a website from search engine organic result listings. There are
millions of searches conducted every day. If your prospects search for keywords
that are related to your business and cannot find your web listing, then you are
losing business to your competitors.
SEO is the bed rock of internet marketing and I strongly recommend that you
start SEO right after you have built your website.
Now, let me share with you 8
tips to optimize your website and increase the overall organic traffic to
it:
1. Place important keywords on the Title and Meta tags of every page.
Important keywords should be placed at the front of the tags and you should
exclude Stop words like "the", "a", "an", etc.
2. Keywords in tags should be unique and relevant. Every page should
have an unique Title and Meta tag. The keywords you place in a tag should be
relevant to the content of the page.
3. Place important keywords in Header tags. Header tags are like sub
titles of a book. Therefore, it is important to place important keywords in it
so that search engine will understand what your page is about.
4. Place keywords in your content. Important keywords should be placed
in your content, especially in the first and last paragraph. Search engines will
index your content and it will be displayed in the search results. So, make sure
that your content is keyword optimized.
5. Do not stuff too many keywords into your content. This is known as
Keyword Stuffing. Although placing keywords on your page is important in SEO, do
not overdo it. When you overdo it, search engines will see this as spam and will
blacklist your website.
6. Buy a domain name that contains the most important keyword for your
business. This will further add weight and relevancy to the keyword that you
wish to optimize.
7. Update your content regularly. Content is king when it comes to
SEO. You can add more content in the form of articles and press releases to your
website. Or, you can add a blog to your website and post new blog entry every
day.
8. Build links. By getting more links to point back to your website,
you are increasing your website link popularity. This will help you score high
rankings for important keywords on search engine result listings.
SEO is something that you must implement if you own a website. If not, you
are leaving a lot of traffic and sales on the table.
I
am a great believer in conditioning your mind for success. There is no
place where this is more essential than in Small Business. We have to
constantly gaurd our minds against negative media reports, complaining
employees and more. 