Search Engine Optimization Isn’t Rocket Science

Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:03
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Trying to get visitors to come to your Website can be a giant challenge. Search engine optimization attempts to take a number of the guesswork out of this challenge by getting your Web pages to place highly in search engines. When you use search engine optimization, you are not employing tricks or hacks, but in lieu writing your pages so that they provide exactly what your customers require while simultaneously showing it to the search engines effectively. These seven tips will help you learn search engine optimization to get better rankings for your Web pages.

It’s more like magic, in lots of ways, but there’s ways to get your pages to show up higher in search rankings, & these two tips should help you to improve your search engine optimization.

When using search engine optimization, you require to select five phrase that describes what your page is about. This is called your target phrase. A target phrase for your Web page should be two things:

Step Five: Pick a Target Phrase

Step Five: Analyze Your Competition

* Important
* Accurate
* Popular
* Overture is a great tool for assessing popularity as well as brainstorming ideas for target phrases.
* Google is great for brainstorming target phrases.
* Word Tracker can help you evaluate popularity & also compare how the competitors use the target phrase you are after.

Step Two: Write Your Page

The second step in search engine optimization is to select who your competition is. Recall that when you are doing search engine optimization, you are working at the page level, not the entire site. So while you might think about any site on pets to be your competition, for your target phrase “cat food” your competition is more specialized perhaps Purina.com or another cat food company than felines.about.com.

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