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Google Search Engine Optimisation Tips: Getting a Good Good Ranking

Below are a few tips that should help you with optimizing your web site so it gets a good search engine ranking with Google:

File and Domain Naming Tips

  • Include the keyword in your page uRL
    First word is best, second is second best, etc.
  • Include the keyword in the domain name your purchase.

Header Tips

  • Include your keyword in the title tag
    Use keyword in your itle tag, close to beginning.  Make your title tag between 10-60 with no special characters.
  • Inlude the keyword in description meta tag
    Try to include every word in the tag somewhere in the body text.  No single word should appear more than twice.
  • Include the keywords in the body text
  • Include the keyword in H1, H2 and H3 tags. 
    Also consider using the keyword in bold, strong, italic fonts.
  • Include the multiple keywords you want to be identified for in the body text close together.  Also include the important keywords at the beginning of your page.
  • Keyword in alt text for images
  • Include the keyword in links to site pages
  • Ensure links on all pages on the site are valid, not broken.
  • Make your web site links efficient, ensure that it is a flat tree structure with easy access to pages rather than a deep one.
  • Try to keep your page file sizes low, definitely under 100k and preferably below 40k
  • Keep links stability over time.  However ensure frequent page updates to encourage frequent spidering of your site
  • Avoid using querystrings to link to page which derive their data from the database.

Include as many pages of content on your site as possible.  Generate a page a day of articles.  Google likes big sites. 

Having said all the above remember to avoid spamming - ie duplicating keywords, including keywords in ridiculous amounts.

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