10 Best SEO Practices
By Ilias on Dec 27, 2007 in Seo
10 things you can do today to optimize your Web site for search engines
- Focus on writing compelling content for humans, not for search engines.
- Use relevant <title> tags on each page.
- Add meta description and keyword tags.
- Keep page content on the shorter side, but make sure to still completely communicate a full idea. Don’t use 800 words for something that requires only 500. Longer content should be broken up into separate pages with keyword-laced title tags.
- Make sure that your Web pages have correct HTML coding. Use a validation tool such as the W3C Markup Validation Service to check each page’s syntax.
- Search engines tend to prefer sites with more than a handful of pages. If your site has fewer than 10 pages, add one Web page of content today. Even if it has more than 10, consider adding more: search engines love sites with regularly updated content.
- Use Wordtracker or Keyword Elite to find the most common search keywords for your topic. Use those words (and variants) on your new pages.
- Explore Google’s Webmaster Tools area. Create a sitemap and register it there.
- Use <h1>, <h2>, etc., tags instead of <font> tags for your site’s headlines.
- Request one new link from a Web directory or other Web site related to your topic.
I’d say building links is way more beneficial then creating and registering a sitemap. A strong site with a static looking structure will nearly always be spidered if the site is developed with effective internal linking.
I don´t agree with you about the point 5, is good to have your code validated but from my experience this point don´t help your results, your code needs to be clean an easy to understand from the bots view, but don´t need to be valid
Thanks for this post, it’s a really good reminder of the simple things we can do for SEO.
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very nice content. Thanks.