Teach yourself SEO in 10 easy steps

We explain how to teach yourself SEO in 10 easy steps.

Top 10 SEO Tips

1. Know your geographic market and ensure your domain has the correct TLD.
2. Include keyword in Domain name (using hyphens if necessary).
3. Optimise individual pages rather than the site as a whole.
4. Research your keywords.
5. Ensure you have a clear internal navigation system.
6. Use appropriate keywords as anchor text within your navigation system
7. Ensure you have well written, informative content for your individual pages.
8. Learn the basics of onpage optimisation, ensuring you know the importance of using titles rellevant to the content of each individual page, the correct use of headers and Alt attributes, the importance of keyword research and using exact phrases legitimately throughout your copy. Know when do use text boxes, drop boxes or smart css navigation boxes.
9. Create a mid to long term linking strategy without pushing the boundaries of the google wbmaster guidelines to far. i.e Don’t just stat a mass link building campaign, but try to exchange links with webmasters of quality sites related to yours which you think may benefit your own websites visitors.
10. Find forums or blogs related to your site, sign up and make rugular helpful posts or comments.

The top 10 list above just gives you the basics to teach yourself SEO, to learn more, specifically about the complexities of on-page optimisation, please contact tj@sim64.co.uk for free SEO advice.

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