Simple SEO tips for your sites that you should not ignore

Posted by Suriati in SEO and Traffic on May 9th, 2010 | 0 comments

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When building sites and blogs, we always on the lookout for ways to make it performs the way we want it to. Sometimes we get so wrap up with various advanced tactics and tricks that we forget to do the basic. Let see if we have committed the sins and disregards these simple SEO tips.

1. Build your site for your readers first

There is no doubt that we want our site to appear on the first page of the search engine for certain keywords that we are targeting but it does not mean that we can put rubbish on the site.

Create your site with your reader in mind

This is frowned upon and will bleed the eyes of those reading stuffs on your sites making them to quickly go away from it.

What I was referring to was stuffing too many keywords on your articles or blog post making it look so unnatural. Though this ‘might’ entice the search engine spiders, it will not help you in retaining your readers. They will find that your site does not serve or deliver what it promises to do and hence will not be coming back to visit it again.

You want them to stay on your site longer and go through other posts or pages on your site, so make it easy and interesting for them to do so

2. Forget to do your keywords research

Each blog or site serve different purpose. For example, you can have one site for pets and another for scrapbook or you can combine both by carefully choosing your angle.

To guide people and search engine spiders to your sites, you’ll need to first understand and aware of what people are looking for on the net for the topic that you are covering. This way, you can provide more useful contents for your site that will keep visitors coming back for more.

With the advanced of technology, you can take out the guessing works and use tools to speed up this process. I personally use Market Samurai to help me with this task and you can get a free trial for this tool at this link. They even have many useful videos that you can go through to get better ideas of what you can use this tool for.

3. Not optimizing your site for the keywords that you are targeting

Looking for suitable keywords is important but you should not stop there. You’ll need to make use of these keywords and optimize your sites by naturally blending them in strategic locations.

You should at least put your keywords in the titles and headline of your blog posts and in the article body itself. This will make your post or pages relevance to the keywords that you are targeting. Another place that you should not forget is the headings and categories. Choose your theme and category keywords wisely and optimize your sites for these terms.

4. Forget to market your site

Building beautiful site alone is not enough. You need to market it and get people to visit your site by doing promotion and back linking to it. It’s like building a store. You still need to get the words out and promote it too, right? If not, then people will not know of your store existence and will not come and visit it.

Marketing your site is a continuous process and you can get traffics to your site by a lot of means. You can do it the free or paid ways but you’ll need to do something and not just sit there ‘hoping’ that somebody somewhere will find your sites.

From these simple SEO tips, you can see that it is easy to forget and ignore some of the most basic things that you need to do for your site. If you always do them, then you are ways ahead of others. If you don’t, then maybe you can create a simple spreadsheet or checklist that you can go through every time you set up a new site. It will be very useful for you to keep track of all of the things that you have done on each site and see which one is lacking the punch and require your extra attention. Till then, happy site building