SEO Advice from a Regular Webmaster

Author: Mitch Keeler

Now I do not claim to be a search engine optimization expert. I don’t even really like it all that much. Learning about SEO these days though is a must if you want your Web site to become a success. Here are five of my own SEO tips that anybody can make use of.

Use title tags in your links. This not only gives you a few more easy ways to get some crawlable content on the Web page – it also helps your visitors get a preview of what the link is about. The alt tags can be useful here as well.

Content is the key to all of this. Make sure you have good quality content on all of your Web pages. You might also even look at hiring a content writer so that you can be sure you are serving up quality content. Notice I put the key on quality and not quantity.

Use Google’s Webmaster Central tools. This is a nice little collection of tools and links to make sure Google is crawling your content and to keep tabs about what they have been looking at. You can also submit your sitemap here as well so Google knows exactly where on your Web sit to go.

Using keywords is good, but do not go overboard. There is a fine line between using a keyword or keywords successfully and keyword stuffing. Sprinkle them in – do not cram them in.

Contact Web sites that have related content (to what you are pushing out to the public) and ask them to exchange links with you. Having link sharing between similar content is a good way to make sure that you will be found via resources that are similar to your own.

Have any others to share?