Five Sneaky SEO Tricks You Probably Don’t Know
Search engine optimization is one of the best traffic generation methods. The thing that keeps everyone from becoming seo experts is the name itself. When I first started taking on SEO clients, I often made the mistake of using the word search engine optimization. The word alone would result in the expresssion which I can only describe as a deer looking into a headlight.
The fact is that the whole concept of SEO is rather simple. Nowadays, I just tell my clients that I can help them increase their search engine placement for highly targeted keywords.
The simplicity of search engine optimization has created a new generation of seo experts. These experts tend to run with every single bit of information they acquire without any thought. Search engine optimization, although simple, experiences many rules changes to keep the spammers off guard. The knowledge of these simple strategies can make a huge difference in rankings.
5 sneaky SEO tricks
Website url:
When you are linking back to your site or using your domain name, be sure that you are consistent with which form of your domain name you use. If you often omit omit the www, then the search engines may mistake your site for two separate websites. This mistake can cause you to lose site popularity because your backlinks will be split between two separate domains.
EX: http://frontpagevip.com and http://www.frontpagevip.com
Strong Not Bold
It is a good idea to bold some of your keywords in your websites content to make clear to the search engine robots which keywords you are targeting. What is not good is using <b></b> in the html code to bold certain text. Many computer generated websites will use the <b> feature which Google now automatically flags. The proper way to bold your text is to use <strong></strong>.
Stop Words
Stop words in the meta tags can also take points away from your SEO efforts. Stop words are a, the, of, that, if, and so on. The more stop words you have in your title tags the more it will lessen your search engine positioning.
Alt Keywords
It is good practice to include your keywords in your “Alt” images but there is one thing to watch out for. It is not a good seo to use the same keywords more than 3 times. If you have several images, you should try to target a few keywords.
Too Many Images
Images are good way to make your website attractive and at the same time generate traffic through Google images. There is one problem that many web developers overlook: too many images. A good rule of thumb is not to display more than 10 images to one page. This will take away from your website’s content and therefore reduce your site’s SEO.
I hope I did not create a deer in the headlight expression from anyone. It may take you a little time to digest the information but in the long run natural organic SEO is the most cost efficient traffic generation method online.
