Feb 13 2009

The Great Big List of SEO Tips

On Tuesday, the launch day of DailySEOTip.com, I asked various SEO’s to send us their SEO tips by twittering about them with a reply back to my Twitter profile. Ask and you shall receive!

This fabulous group of Twitter using SEO’s replied back with some excellent tips for us to start up our TGIF Tips, where on Fridays DailySEOTip.com turns over our SEO tip of the day to you, the reader. Today’s goal is to build a grand list of simple and useful SEO Tips, which can be contributed by anyone interested in the project.

All you have to do is comment in the comment field below this blogpost. Our goal is to have over 100 cool tips and replies in the comments by the end of the day! So get Commenting (remember, comments include DoFollow links and can link to your latest blog post!)

So, to get this party with this list of juicy SEO tips as Twittered by our friends! And be sure to follow all of these great people on Twitter.

joehall @lorenbaker SEO TIP: start using microformats, they are going to be important in the future for identifying important content.

weboptimist @lorenbaker When an image and a text link point to the same URL, nofollow the image link to give link credit to the keyword rich text link.

askbillmitchell @lorenbaker use inurl: blog, .gov, edu in Google to find blogs hosted on .edu .gov TLD participate in their discussion to get quality back links

kalena @lorenbaker SEO Rule 1 – ask the client what goal they want to achieve. If unrealistic convince them to change goal. If realistic, exceed it

Burnsie_SEO @lorenbaker: SEO Tip. Always have a site map. Be sure it is in the root directory and has a text link to it from all pages of the site

Burnsie_SEO @lorenbaker SEO Tip. Ne sure your title tag is different for each page. Use you keywords in title tag that are relevant to that page

Burnsie_SEO @lorenbaker:SEO Tip. Use your page focus keywords as your page URL name. Keyword-keyword-keyword. HTML

OneChicBoutique @lorenbaker SEO Tip/websites take a long time to show in Google Search/Make a myspace for your website/Google crawls Myspace with in days!

kristyann @lorenbaker Don’t forget the visitor. You can optimize for the SERP’s all you want, but if the content isn’t there the visitors won’t return

sitemost @lorenbaker Before embarking on any SEO campaign, set clear goals and perform a usability audit. Otherwise all the traffic and exposure you get from your SEO campaign will be wasted

Skitzzo @lorenbaker my tip would be… make it easy for people to link to you the way you want (with optimized anchor tags).

sizzler_chetan @lorenbaker Put keywords or key phrases in Image ALT attributes to make your images rank better in Search engines.

Remember to leave your SEO Tip (or more than one) in the comments below!

Note : If you check out Andrew’s comment below you’ll see that he just summarized one of his blog posts and dropped a link to it. You can do that too!

80 Responses to “The Great Big List of SEO Tips”

  1. huntai7 says:

    Hi,Guys those tips are awesome tq! :)

    huntai7’s last incredible blog post..How To Have Websites Built For You The Cheap Way!!

  2. Jag says:

    Nice, but its bad that you missed mine, you can a lot in tweets about my blog http://www.myseoarticle.blogspot.com lol

    Jag’s last incredible blog post..jagadeeshmp: 10 most used Web Promotion #Tools categorized according to #SEO Methodologies http://tinyurl.com/csvfdy – Don’t miss

  3. Roger says:

    Great tips! Here’s mine: Do not use paid link services that openly advertise their services or send out unsolicited emails

  4. D. A. Shaver says:

    I think search engine optimization; web page usability and accessibility can all be accomplished by doing the same things. Things, which make web page accessible, also optimize it for search engines and things done for usability also make pages more accessible and optimized for search engines.

  5. Richard says:

    Not a tip, but … use some of your seo knowledge and help one of your favorite bricks and mortar retail stores compete against the big box stores. For example, review their website and provide some tips or direct them to getlisted.org so that they can make sure that their business is listed with the major search engines.

    Richard’s last incredible blog post..Keyword Tool Now Working

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  8. artlee says:

    hello! thanks for great tips.
    i’ll translate this material to russian for my blog

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  9. Chaunna Brooke says:

    These are great tips when it comes to search engine optimization. These are great suggestions for the interested marketers.

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  11. geobak says:

    The real SEO question is

    With the comments here being DO follow and all these links how much link value is really passed?

    This could be a seo tip eh?

  12. Oliver says:

    Some really good and helpful tips here. I will have to make a note of a few and maybe put them into practice for better SEO. It’s good to see people giving out tips for SEO to help beginners and people who are experienced.

  13. Roger says:

    Some really good tips here guys. I would suggest learning long tail search. That and linkbuilding based upon competitors

  14. Sal says:

    WoW!! alot of tips and ideas!!
    TNX a Bunch!

  15. Chris says:

    Great tips! one should follow all these while following SEO principles.

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  17. Facebook Developers says:

    Hey its really an amazing tips. I really like it. Thanks f or sharing. Keep it up

  18. TimTav says:

    Research the keywords you wish to rank for and check to see what the competition is like (use “keyword” in quotes in Google Search) and it should give you a rough idea of how many other pages compete for this term.

    Next write something so good that it leaps off the page and submit it to something like ezinearticles so webmasters fall over themselves to use it on their site.

    This is the most natural form of link building and you often get followed links from relevant sites. OR, send you copy directly to a site you want a link from. Remember, use that anchor text link

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    Getting relevant anchor text for your link is the key for success. But do not spam it.

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