Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Including Keywords In Your Website



Each page of your website should focus on only a couple of keyword phrases.

Use variants of your targeted keyword phrase.

Watch out for the over-optimization penalty.

The goal of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to find a focus for each webpage of your website and to add in the keyword phrases we want to target to that webpage,  making it easier for the search engines to find the subject of the webpage and rank it in the search results.  The very best place to include keyword phrases for search engine optimization (SEO) are:

The Page File Name
The Page Title Tag
The Page Content
H1 Heading Tag
H2 Heading Tag
H3 Heading Tag
H4 Heading Tag

  Other places to include the keyword phrases for optimization are:

Links to your website from other websites
In Bold or Italic in the page content
Links to your other pages
Links to other websites
Description Meta Tag
Keywords Meta Tag
Image File Names
H5 Heading Tag
H6 Heading Tag
Image Alt Tags

One word of caution - you have to be careful to not trip any over-optimization filter causing the website to receive a penalty.  The perfect combination is a moving target and depends on the search engine and the actual keyword phrase.  You can avoid the penalty and strengthen the page by using variations of your keyword phrase.  We do this by re-arranging the word order, changing a word by adding 's', 'ing' or 'ed',  and replacing words in your keyword phrase with other related words.  For example:  This webpage is targeted to 'search engine optimization (SEO)' and any of the following keyword phrases could be helpful:

search engine optimizing
optimizing for search engines
search engine ranking
optimized website
search engine marketing
ect...

After each page of your website is optimized for it's couple of keyword phrases the real fun begins - we have to get the search engines to recognize your website or search engine marketing (SEM).

More to come...
 
Choosing Keyword Phrases
Optimizing for Search Engines
Marketing to the Search Engines
Pay Per Click Advertising

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