SEO Tips

Creating a great looking website is the easy part, being found on the world wide web amongst all the competition can be more difficult, but with a little know how it is achievable.

Here are some top search engine optimization tips:

Use an existing domain name where possible as Google can delay ranking new domain names for a good 9 - 12 months.

Content on web pages must remain focused, relevant and unique.

Keywords and phrases must appear in the body text. Try to use the most important keyword phrase in the beginning of the body text, spread throughout the page, and toward the end of the page

Ensure the title tags on each page are unique and contain your top search terms. This is limited to 64 characters, including spaces.

Use the most important key phrases in text links to other pages.

Have other relevant sites link to yours.

Submit your site to search engines and all relevant directories.

Use text instead of images to display important names, content or links. Search engines do not read images.

Check for broken links and correct HTML.

Avoid trying to trick the search engines into giving a high ranking.

If you take notice of these top SEO tips and use them on your website you will see an increase on traffic to your site.

SEO points to remember:

1. The right domain name

2. Focused web page content

3. Use good keywords

4. Optimised title tags

5. Keyword text links

6. Linking with other sites

7. Submit to search engines

8. Name images on websites

9. Clean source code

10. Don't spam

A web site can only get high rankings on Google if it has good inbound links in addition to good content. However, it is important that you get the right links.

Duplicate content copied from your own site or another site is not looked favourably on by Google.

Good keywords are needed throughout a website in order for the site to be found by the search engines for that search term.

Make sure that search engines can access your web pages. If they can't, it will have a negative effect on your ranking.

Ensure your entire site is relevant to a specific topic and each page of your site is related to this topic.