Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for beginners – Part1

Jude Festus    SEO, Search Engines    

For the SEO experts around there, this article is not for you. This article is for who are new to the field of SEO and for SEO aspirants. Below are some good SEO practices:

1. Use good title for your pages.
The title of the page should represent the content in the page. Identify the keywords in the page and shrewdly insert those keywords in the title. Use the important keywords in the beginning of the title.

Don’t
1. Never stuff too many keywords in the title
2. Never use too many comma separated words in the title
3. Never insert irrelevant keywords. (Irrelevant means, The keywords which don’t represent the content in your page)
4. Don’t exceed 70 characters

Instead of “Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are” i would say “Show me your title and I will tell you how good you are in SEO”

2. Using Header tags (H1, H2…) at the right places

When you write the content for each webpage make sure it has a content title and never forgot to mention that title inside a H1 tag and wrap the following sub headings inside the h2, h3… tags.

Though I know the use of the header tag, I haven’t included any header tags in one of my website (very very quality community based website), the reason is obvious, I don’t want to disturb the appealing design of the webpage by including a large text. Not surprisingly, for the keyword I targeted my website is in the 4^th page of Google (But it’s in the first page of Yahoo and MSN). Frustrated with the result, I included the keyword inside the H1 tag and placed it in the top of my homepage, just below the menu.

Result: Believe me, Just after three weeks my website is in the first page of Google. So what are you going to do, still worrying about your design or ready to get more visitors to your website?

Tips: Find the keywords inside that Webpage content and shrewdly include it inside the header tags.

3. Meta Tags: Still Alive?

The predominantly used meta tags by many SEO’s are Meta description and meta keywords. Well, That’s history now. The big “3’s” (Google, Yahoo, MSN) are now not considering the meta keywords. When your webpage has no text content, say a Flash page, Google consider the Meta description and list it in their web result. For example see the picture below:

So I would say, meta will not affect your search engine ranking.

4. Don’t keep a page size more than 100KB

Google loves the webpages with more text. Try to keep your webpage size under 100KB. Though Google lists all the webpages, which has the size under 150 KB, my advice is to keep the webpage size under 100KB.

Now the question is, Why Google is doing this? Is it because your webpage is cached in Google’s Server? Nope.

The straightforward answer to this is, “Google wants their visitors to be happy, They don’t want to lead their visitors to a webpage which takes more time to load”.

To be Continued >>

Which is the most popular search engine ?

Jude Festus    Search Engines    

I guess most of them know the answer for this question, Undoubtedly it’s Google. Below is the statistics showing the market reach of all the major search engines. I took this information from a website (Forget which it is!) long back when i gave a presentation on SEO in my Office.

Now you know why all the SEO’s are scratching their head to optimize their website for Google.

Make money with your Orkut profile in Just 10 minutes

Jude Festus    Make Money, Orkut    

With these reach of social networking websites the options of making money online is boundless. Here is how you can do it with your orkut profile:

1. If you don’t have a profile in Orkut, create one now.
2. Create an account in Amazon Associates
3. After logging into your amazon affiliate account, create a aStore like mine.
4. Now give this aStore url in wishlist column in your Orkut profile.

That’s it, now you’re done. More the friends, more profile visits and hence more the click to your amazon wishlist url. If someone buys any items through your landing page then you will be paid a certain percentage of money.

Again, the options are more, instead of Amazon you can use any Affiliate landing page but Amazon’s aStore offer many user friendly options like “create and forget”. The “Similar Items” Section will dynamically display the relevant products. Creating a aStore is very simple when compared to Affiliate landing page.. With these options, are you ready to make money online?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – An Overview

Jude Festus    SEO     SEO

What is SEO?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Optimizing the website to bring in more traffic is the main motto for all the Search Engine Optimizers. How they do it? Are there any predetermined steps for that? SEO is not a rocket science, anyone who has very little knowledge in maintaining their website or blogs can follow it. In the coming blog posts I will blog more about SEO.

The search result for the term SEO yields 224,000,000 and the search result for the term “web design” yields only 141,000,000 results and that show how important SEO is!

Why is it important?

When you optimize your pages more shrewdly you can funnel your target customers to the correct page instead of them landing in the wrong page of your website.
Hope you got it how important SEO is! Meet you in the next post with more details on SEO.