[Palaimon]

SEO is very popular right now. Many website using SEO to get better result in search engine. There are several thing, which important in SEO :

1. Domain Name

Try to use your keyword for your domain. It's may difficult because so many domain name has already sell.

2. Keyword

Research your keyword first before you decide to use it. Try to use keyword that have less competition, but search by many people. You can use Keyword Research Services to get good keyword. You can find it using keyword "keyword research" or "keyword discovery" in search engine.

3. Your Web Site Title

Use your keyword in your website Title, but don't use to many keyword in title.

4. Website Description

Use your keyword in your website Description. This very important, but don't use many keyword, because search engine can consider it as keyword spamming. Your website can be banned by Google if your website break their guidelines.

5. Website Navigation

Google will read your site from top right to bottom left, so place main website navigation after your website Title. Place website navigation like Home, About, Contact in the bottom of your website.

6. Fresh Content

Search Engine like fresh content. Fresh content will make your website get better position in search engine.

7. Original Content

Don't place non original content in your site. Search engine will detect it as duplicated content. That's not good for your site.

8. More Backlink

Submit your site to Web Directory, Blog Directory, and search engine to increase your website Page Rank. Also exchange link with other website.

[francis84]

Good tips for those beginning SEO out there.

[fabamaker]

unique content on regular basis//
& article marketing

[Dan Schulz]

Originally Posted by Palaimon

SEO is very popular right now. Many website using SEO to get better result in search engine. There are several thing, which important in SEO :

1. Domain Name

Try to use your keyword for your domain. It's may difficult because so many domain name has already sell.

The domain name isn't important. It can however, help.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

2. Keyword

Research your keyword first before you decide to use it. Try to use keyword that have less competition, but search by many people. You can use Keyword Research Services to get good keyword. You can find it using keyword "keyword research" or "keyword discovery" in search engine.

Just saying to target the easy keywords is doing you and your clients a huge disservice. They are however, a great source of easy traffic for new Web sites or sites that were never optimized to begin with.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

3. Your Web Site Title

Use your keyword in your website Title, but don't use to many keyword in title.

Google doesn't index Web sites. It indexes Web pages. Same with every other search engine on the planet.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

4. Website Description

Use your keyword in your website Description. This very important, but don't use many keyword, because search engine can consider it as keyword spamming. Your website can be banned by Google if your website break their guidelines.

META descriptions play no part in ranking. They can however increase your traffic from the search engines if they're written in a descriptive yet compelling manner.

And like the title, they're page specific, not site-specific.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

5. Website Navigation

Google will read your site from top right to bottom left, so place main website navigation after your website Title. Place website navigation like Home, About, Contact in the bottom of your website.

WRONG. Google and the other search engines read HTML files in source code order. That's from TOP to BOTTOM.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

6. Fresh Content

Search Engine like fresh content. Fresh content will make your website get better position in search engine.

Yes, the like fresh content. But it won't help your site rank better on its own. The higher rankings will come from optimized content, optimized code, and optimized incoming links. Believe it or not...

Age really doesn't play a role in determining the relevance of content.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

7. Original Content

Don't place non original content in your site. Search engine will detect it as duplicated content. That's not good for your site.

If your site is considered by the search engines to be more authoratitive than the original, then the original may be filtered out. I doubt it happens often though outside of article directories.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

8. More Backlink

Submit your site to Web Directory, Blog Directory, and search engine to increase your website Page Rank. Also exchange link with other website.

With the exception of the search engines (which will find your site anyway, and does not increase your PR), none of those are what I would call quality relevant incoming links. They're "bottom of the barrel" that bottomfeeders tend to gorge on thinking they're the best, when in fact they're just dumpster diving for the worst kinds of links they can possibly get.

[jamesfoster]

Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

Just saying to target the easy keywords is doing you and your clients a huge disservice. They are however, a great source of easy traffic for new Web sites or sites that were never optimized to begin with.

This is not doing wrong service to client. This is a process of selecting keywords not just for traffic and also for site rankings.

If you start with high compitetion keywords like download, internet, etc, There won't be a chance of traffic too.

[Dan Schulz]

Originally Posted by jamesfoster

This is not doing wrong service to client. This is a process of selecting keywords not just for traffic and also for site rankings.

If you start with high compitetion keywords like download, internet, etc, There won't be a chance of traffic too.

I didn't say to target the low-hanging fruit exclusively. I said that if that's what an SEO does that he's failing his client. Nor should an SEO focus on the more competitive words exclusively either.

So, what to do? Target the easy to rank for keywords, get them to #1, but make sure those easy keywords contain the more competitive keywords in them. That way you're not only getting keyword rich link text for the easy ones, but the harder ones as well (which Dan Theis once referred to as "staged promotion").

[myndconsulting]

good tips, preferably these are the 'basics' to look out for on SEO

[zaizaices8]

Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

The domain name isn't important. It can however, help.

It is helpful if you're Domain name is your keyword. For example, your keyword is MP3 and your site is www.mp3.com.

Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

META descriptions play no part in ranking. They can however increase your traffic from the search engines if they're written in a descriptive yet compelling manner.

True. But it is important in SEO to put METAs. Meta tags are used to add information to the HTTP header of a webpage. It also contains hidden information in the coding that the search engines will pick up on.
Example: author's name, title of web site and "keywords" Meta tags can help improve your placement in search engines and can therefore help increase traffic to your Web site. Most likely, if your site does not have "keywords" in the head of your html code, the engines will not find your website.

Originally Posted by Palaimon

Submit your site to Web Directory, Blog Directory, and search engine to increase your website Page Rank. Also exchange link with other website.

Nowadays, Directory submission isn't that hot like before.

[Dan Schulz]

Originally Posted by zaizaices8

It is helpful if you're Domain name is your keyword. For example, your keyword is MP3 and your site is www.mp3.com.

But it won't help much, especially in the more competitive keyword verticals. If you have a non-comeptitive keyword, getting the domain name with those keywords can be very helpful. But once the competition starts to notice, it won't help as much from a purely SEO perspective.

Originally Posted by zaizaices8

True. But it is important in SEO to put METAs. Meta tags are used to add information to the HTTP header of a webpage. It also contains hidden information in the coding that the search engines will pick up on.

I'm a Web developer; of course I know what META tags are used for. And no, they're not sent in the HTTP headers; they're just sent as "meta data".

Originally Posted by zaizaices8

Example: author's name, title of web site and "keywords" Meta tags can help improve your placement in search engines and can therefore help increase traffic to your Web site. Most likely, if your site does not have "keywords" in the head of your html code, the engines will not find your website.

The <title></title> tags are not META tags. The only real META tags are those that are enclosed and start with the word "META". Like so: <meta> (content removed to keep it short, sweet, and simple).

The keywords tag is practically useless to SEOs. Some search engines will look at them but won't use them. The rest just ignore them outright.

And like I said, they will NOT help improve your rankings (placement). Furthermore, the "author" META tag is not necessary for SEO purposes, and the search engines will still find your site as long as something is linking to it (or it has been submitted to them).

Originally Posted by zaizaices8

Nowadays, Directory submission isn't that hot like before.

They should never have been popular to begin with.

[zaizaices8]

Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

But it won't help much, especially in the more competitive keyword verticals. If you have a non-comeptitive keyword, getting the domain name with those keywords can be very helpful. But once the competition starts to notice, it won't help as much from a purely SEO perspective.

Yup, it won't help much. But it does help just a little.

Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

The <title></title> tags are not META tags. The only real META tags are those that are enclosed and start with the word "META". Like so: <meta> (content removed to keep it short, sweet, and simple).

I haven't said anything about the title tags.

Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

They should never have been popular to begin with.

I agree with you there.