From the article: 95 SEO Tips and Tricks for Powerful Search Engine Optimization
If you had one SEO tip that worked the best for you and your site what would it be? These could be suggestions for things to avoid - perhaps something you tried got you in trouble with search engines? Or for things that are effective - you got to the top 10. Share your SEO Tip
www and non www rewrites
- Use some research and rewrite your non www to www. because the duplicate page may decrease your ranking factors. i worked this and working perfectly - www.hangar17.com
- —Guest Hangar17
Use your head
- Everything listed above is a no-brainer. However, what I haven't seen yet is: Use your head! Seriously, take a minute and think before you upload your revisions to your host. Do you really need all of those pretty banners to all of those other great offers? Do you really need all of those outbound links to your 500 different blogging accounts? Don't get in such a hurry! Kevin
- —Guest Kevin
Meta Description Tweeks
- Focus target key phrases 2 times in Meta description and keep it meaningful without a feel of stuffing :)
- —Guest Jag (@jagadeeshmp)
Cross-Linking
- The number of cross links to/from other high quality sites greatly affects page rank.
- —Guest James
XML sitemaps
- Yes, we found that submitting your XML sitemap tp Google can get your site indexed within hours. http://web-design-miami.com/
- —Guest miami web design company
Content and Backlinks
- I formed an organization, because I had a burning desire to help resolve problems related to the Temple Mount in Israel. http://www.3rdtemplebill.org . Without a single thought about page rank, I began making contact, and getting published on crucial blogs and websites/directories working on this problem. Eventually, my site was listed in a UNESCO information portal. The result has been a humble, but progressive, PR3 on most pages. My moral - develop content and backlinks related whatever is unique about your website!
- —Guest Boruch Fishman
Sitemaps work for me
- since the use of XML sitemaps paired with google webmaster tools, I have taked many websites much higher than expected. Evan http://www.evanwatkinswebdesign.com
- —Guest Evan
work hard work hard
- there is no substitute for hard work find good sites ,tools,content and keep on updating them.
- —Guest heidi
Takes a lot more than one tip
- There are about 27 different variables that work together for effective SEO. The most important ones include: keyword research, using keywords in the title tag and meta description tag, using keywords naturally and not excessively in the on-page text, building good quality inbound links. The on-page SEO will tell the search engines what your web pages are about and building up inbound links will increase your web site's "popularity" among other sites with similar content and eventually, if all done correctly and ethically, propel your web site to the first page and possibly the top of the search results. Do not: link to sites with link farms or those with unrelated content; do not stuff keywords into your text or title tag or meta tags.
- —WingsDove
XML Sitemap
- I'd say one of my best SEO tips would to be the use of an XML Sitemap. I constantly have clients that like the look and feel of Flash or Javascript based navigation. I always do my best to talk them out of it, but if there's no selling that idea, then I opt for the next best thing, which is an XML sitemap. For those who aren't familiar with XML sitemaps, they are easy to generate XML files that can be submitted directly to Google and Yahoo (and other search engines). The benefit to doing this is if your site has a Flash or Javascript based navigation, the search engines cannot follow the links in them. This leaves Google with only a taste of your site's content since it can't get past your index page. An XML sitemap gives the google spider a compass/map of your site before it even visits your site, so on the off chance it get's stuck, it can refer to your XML sitemap to get to your site's internal pages.
- —Skyphoxx
Content
- Write clear, useful, well-organized, well-written, regularly updated content for humans NOT search engines.
- —Guest Marilyn
XML sitemaps
- For many years I beat my head against a wall trying to get search engines to recognise mixed content - some HTML, most delivered from a database. The advent of Google XML sitemaps and auto discovery using robots.txt for the other majors has made the whole process simple. And Google indexes content much quicker.
- —direction123
