Top Ten Tips for Top Search Engine Rankings
- By increasing your internal and incoming links your Websites popularity will increase.
- Use one or more header tags in your main page body and include your most important keyword phrase/s.
- Include a TITLE tag as the first META tag, directly after the HEAD tag.
- Avoid using stop words (a, an, but, his, her etc. there are over 300 stop words that will be ignored by most Search Engines) in your TITLE tag. By doing this you will improve the speed and relevancy of search results
- Include a META description tag, directly after the Title tag. The most significant keyword phrase of the web page should be included as near the description as possible.
- Remove all other META tags that are not utterly essential. Focus on just using META description. Ensure that your META Refresh tag is set to refresh every 30 seconds.
- Check the first couple of lines of the first paragraph to see if it’s appropriate to be used as a description of your page. Many search engines utilize the first couple of sentences of the body text as the search results description, instead of the contents of the META DESCRIPTION tag.
- Keep a minimum word count of 300 and a maximum of 750 words on each page.
- Aim to achieve an overall keyword density of 1-2%.
- Register a domain name including the exact keyword phrase you wish to target, remember to use hyphens to separate keywords.
