Is your web site designed for optimal SEO results?

 

There are several factors to consider when building a website, the ones we have listed here are considered by may SEO professionals to be the most important, as together they can have a big impact on how your website ranks in the search engines. Optimizing a website properly is time consuming and tedious process that is an ongoing process, and will have to be looked after for as long as you have your website.

 

Important Note to Remeber: Do a good job with your On-Page SEO and the Off-Page SEO will take care of itself for the most part.

 

 

 

  1. Be sure that your website is Cross-Browser Compatible

  2. Canonicalize Your URL's, Google does not care if you choose the (http or www) but be consistant and choose one or the other.

  3. Use your ALT Tags, name your images, as this can improve your web page rankings.

  4. Recenlty SEOmoz did a study and found that More-Adsense=Lower Rankings. Be sure your webpage is filled with good content.

  5. Optimize Your Meta-Description by creating a compelling description you can increase your clicks over your competition.

  6. Speed up your websites image loading time by using Save for the Web in Photoshop.

  7. Validate Your Code using the W3C Validator, having an error free code is very important.

  8. Use Header Tags, (H1, H2, H3, etc) organize your content properly.

  9. Do Not Overdo Flash, although Google can read it now, they are still a long way from doing it correctly.

  10. Write Unique and High Quality Page Content - One of the most important factors in On-Page SEO.

  11. Incorporate Social Media - Facebook and Twitter have become a major part in sharing information, don't miss this one.

  12. Do Follow All Trusted Links - Forget pagerank sculpting the payoff is not worth the effort, just use some common sense here.

  13. Use AWSTATS to track your websites online progress, most hosting companies provide this free in your Cpanel.

  14. Optimize Your 404 Page - There is nothing Google dislikes more than dead pages, and visitors don't like them either.

  15. Optimize Your Page URL's - Google reads these and that is important to note, and visitors like them as-well.