Monday, October 20, 2008

Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Every webmaster wishes to attract users on his website, SEO is the technique using which you can bring traffic to your website. SEO works for everything from a normal blogs, to selling of products. Here are some Search Engine Optimization Techniques:

-Submit your links your web directories: In this method all you need to do is find good directories with good pageranks and submit your links on them. This is one of the commonest method to build backlinks, by submitting your link to around 10-15 directories daily you can target lot of users to your website.

-Commenting on blogs: try to make comments on blogs having similar niche as that of yours. Making somewhere around 10-15 comments can add a lot of backlinks in a short time period, but be very cautious don't start spamming blogs otherwise you might get blocked and may not be able to comment on any website. Also sometimes even commenting on unrelated blogs adds backlinks like for example you wish to target SEO consultant in Toronto to do Search engine optimization for such a complex phrase you could target smaller keywords like SEO Toronto and Toronto SEO and form sentence comments in SEO blogs and webmaster forums giving backlinks to the address dealing with the primary key phrase you wish to target.

-Forum Signatures: Participate in forums having same niche as yours and put a link to your forum if it goes with the rules of the community. Try to be active on the forum and post there.

-Link Exchanges: Contact webmasters having websites like yours and ask them if they would like to exchange link with your website.

-Article submission: Write good articles and submit them to article directories. This way you get a lot of backlinks but try to write a good article as your article might get copied on few websites adding more backlinks.

-Make a sitemap: Make a sitemap of your website and submit it to Google Webmaster Tool so that you can notify Google of everything that happens on your blog.

Here are a few mistakes which people make when they are starting off with SEO:

-Remember Content is KING! Your content should be unique if you want visitors on your blog. Google is much clever than you think, they won’t let you rank high if your article is copied.

-Using iframes and flash content might make some problems for you because Google cannot read flash content and hates iframes.

-Having broken or hidden links on your website may cause problems for your website. So better check all the links twice.

-If you are planning to submit your website on many search engines with a click using a tool forget about it. It may get your website penalized! It’s better to let search engines find you.

1 comment:

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