Thursday, April 28, 2011

A Guide For The Best Practices In SEO

From the time of its conception up to present, SEO practices have been evolving; adapting to trends and changes in the movement of the market. This continues on and on as long as the market remains dynamic.


SEO best practices comprise of secure strategies in building a constant and natural traffic to your site on a long term basis. You can group them according to: (1) expertise; (2) architecture; (3) implementation; and lastly, (4) marketing or link building.


Here is a guide for the best practices in SEO:


Expertise - you need to master the content of your site to get a steady and growing stream of interested visitors. You need to offer your readers something very valuable to read and possibly link to. An example of this would be a free report or a short manual.


You can write high quality articles that concentrate on your field of expertise. Create something that's unique, interesting and valuable to your followers.


The information that you share can be a major source of information and news which can be linked to different websites. Always aim for high quality content that will make you newsworthy.


Build trust and rapport among your readers by giving them good content. This is stronger than just publishing content where other sites can link to.


Architecture - this creates the structure and purpose of your website. The information on your website should follow a certain structure in order for it to be strong even through tough competition.


Keyword mapping is very essential to establish your information architecture. Your ranking also relies on the keyword and its placement on your website.


You can use tools to map out and search for target keywords. You should be able to map out your keywords not only on one of your web pages but throughout your website in a way that the pages coordinate very well with each other.


Also design your website that will make it easy for your readers to navigate through the whole website.


Implementation - you have to meet the needs imposed by search engines.


You have to make sure that navigation is easy and purposeful and that it can be crawled by using text links. Also, maximize the number of clicks to important content of your website by putting only the highly relevant ones.


Pages rich in SEO content should be implemented for search engines to crawl. You should also include link related content and meta description tags to your site.


Marketing - link building is very much important to get people to advertise you on their site and vice versa. Getting people to link to yours is very essential in getting more people to frequent your page.


Link building is not randomly asking various sites to link to yours and vice versa. You should link only to sites that are highly relevant.

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