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!
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If you are using WordPress, use:
Canonical URL Plugin for WordPress
http://yoast.com/wordpress/canonical/
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Loren Baker Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Dude, virtually all of Joost’s plugins rock
Thanks for sharing!
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seo bag Reply:
February 24th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
or another one plugin “SEO No Duplicate” http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-no-duplicate/
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Be sure to list your site in quality web directories.
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Loren Baker Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Which quality directories would you recommend?
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Latam SEO Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I would say botw.org, dir.yahoo.com and business.com are the directories that can pass some trust to a website? Although I believe that submitting to those directories has been less important recently, I think it still helps.
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Thanks guys, keep them coming! Random SEO Tips, consider this a brainstorming session
Don’t be shy, share whatever is on your mind.
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How to get a clean link from Facebook: Create a Facebook Pages page and add an RSS feed that links back to your website. Facebook nofollows the main link to your website but the links back via RSS are clean. Here’s the detail:
Facebook Pages & Local Search Engine Optimization
Andrew Shotland’s last incredible blog post..Rel=Canonical: A Gift To SEO Consultants & Clients?
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Don’t forget to optimize your internal links.
And, hey, never forget sitemost’ tip:
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
Frank Marcel’s last incredible blog post..Piores Erros de SEO
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Read this : 10 Point Crash Course in Blog SEO
Getting your blog into the search engines is important. That’s obvious. I think a lot of beginning bloggers tend to over-think it, though. In this post, I’m going to give you a rapid-fire overview of what I think is important for you to think about moving forward when it comes to getting your stuff into the search engines.
http://www.davidrisley.com/2009/02/13/10-point-crash-course-in-blog-seo/
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Submitting your Sitemap to google and yahoo will get you indexed fairly quickly.
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Check your keyworded proposed blog post title in Google Adwords Keyword Tool to make sure you’re using the format that is most clickworthy.
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Make sure google is linking to the canonical page for your keywords.
A few days or weeks after your targeted page goes live, use Google search to see if the page you determine is the most important for a certain term, in fact comes up first in the Google SERPs.
Search like this: site:yoursitename.com Your Targeted Keywords
If another page on your site is coming up first, then you need to do more keyword optimizing on your canonical page (I check this at SEOMoz.com http://www.seomoz.org/term-target) and link into your canonical page with better anchor text on your internal links.
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Use http://usernamecheck.com to check what social networks you havent signed for. Protect your business name from domain squatting and/or get a niche phrase like Murrieta Realtors and see what social networks you can build around an important niche phrase. Do searches on high traffic key phrases and see what social media web 2.0 sites they use and try them out for your niche! by @seotips2go
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which is the wordpress plugin to generate sitemap readable from browser (html… not xml)
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Take in everything you read about SEO with a jaundiced eye.
Greg Cryns’s last incredible blog post..15 Nifty SEO Google Alert Tips
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Simple…be friendly and helpful…if someone you know has a good idea for your site and helps them out the same time, go ahead a write a blog. You never know what good karma can do:)
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I use the THESIS wordpress theme. It is SEO optimized. Also, participating in forums revelant to your site content seems to bring lots of qualtiy visitors.
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Understand and learn how to tap into the Long Tail of Search. Great opportunity awaits you!
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Start using more social elements on your sites that rely on OpenSocial. Google will soon be making Social Media indicators a larger part of their ranking system. But it won’t know how these indicators should rank your site if you aren’t using OpenSocial.
Joe Hall’s last incredible blog post..Is Google Alerts Finding Everything?
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Loren Baker Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Joe, I agree 100% on this.
Wrote about this a year and a half ago on SEJ : http://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-medias-direct-influence-on-search-engine-ranking/5576/
Hoping the engines catch up to the post
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Be aware of canonicalization! Redirect “example.com”, “www.example.com”, and “www.example.com/index.html” to the same URL. Or now you can also use the rel=”canonical” property within the anchor tag to help the search engines along.
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My favorite SEO tip: Organize your keywords, links and strategies using Excel and mind-mapping software.
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Loren Baker Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Yes Ann, there’s a little bit on this at SEJ, as contributed by Mike via DailySEOTip.com
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/use-excel-to-plan-meta-tags-titles-and-urls-for-seo/8595/
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Know which keywords are already working for you (in Google Analytics, etc.) and find low hanging fruit to optimize for. Maybe there’s a keyword you’re on the second page for but it’s still sending a decent amount of traffic. That keyword probably wouldn’t take much effort to get to page one, or even in the top three. Oh … and blog!
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I just found out today that videos are 53 times more likely to appear on the first page of search results than regular pages (Source: Business Week http://bitly.com/z4K42). So if you are working on video, make sure it’s well optimized with good file names, keyword-rich tags, useful and insightful captions, transcripts, and be sure to allow users to embed it on their own sites.
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Want more traffic to your sites?
Pop open Google, search for phrases that you want to link for or already do now and simply just ask the top 10 sites for a link to yours. Yea sounds simple but sometimes I can get a link or 2 that way. Of course you can get creative on how you ask but that’s where I always start.
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Use an internal search box - the feedback on what your visitors want from your site is invaluable. Helps with content development, optimization importance ranking as well as a great guide to what people see as the purpose and use of your site.
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Loren Baker Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
This is a very overlooked keyword and behavior monitoring strategy. You can really unearth what’s missing from your site and its usability, along with some new keywords which you may have never thought of.
Thanks Frank!
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When designing a new website, use external cascading style sheets. With only minimum code in the HTML page itself, your actual content, containing all your keywords, will be high up on the page close to the title tag and not buried beneath dozens of lines of code and scripts. Google likes easy to find content!
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Actually look at your client’s Web site before you start your off-page efforts. Don’t just take your client’s word for it when they say they want to rank for [big money keyword] and [another keyword].
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Loren Baker Reply:
February 14th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Yes, setting realistic client expectations should be one ofthe first steps in SEO.
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Hi,Guys those tips are awesome tq!
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Nice, but its bad that you missed mine, you can a lot in tweets about my blog http://www.myseoarticle.blogspot.com lol
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I’m certain that a lot of people dont know how to use the title tags properly. I have seen too many companies put irrevelant keywords or even their company name. Who searches for your company name on Google? Waste of space on title tag
I put a lot of article directories, and how to find good ones.
Everyone submits their content everywhere, but only a few directories are worth submitting to.
Another post i placed that only a few people know about.
WORD OF ADVICE - STOP clogging up titles for page, blog post, article, etc with IRREVELANT WORDS!
Title should be FULLY optimized with ONLY keywords.
The description is where you write what the article/post/page is about.
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Great tips! Here’s mine: Do not use paid link services that openly advertise their services or send out unsolicited emails
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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.
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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.
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hello! thanks for great tips.
i’ll translate this material to russian for my blog
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These are great tips when it comes to search engine optimization. These are great suggestions for the interested marketers.
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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?
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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.
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Some really good tips here guys. I would suggest learning long tail search. That and linkbuilding based upon competitors
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WoW!! alot of tips and ideas!!
TNX a Bunch!
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Great tips! one should follow all these while following SEO principles.
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Everyday, I’ve obliged myself to read at least one article a day,relative to SEO tools.. And as far as I know, the basics on SEO were article submission, directory submission, press release, social bookmarking….and you can never deny the fact that among these tools, there really is, the best tool among them. And in my own point of view, I find social sites as the best of them all. Not only that you get to give your site more traffic, you tend to establish good reputation among other blog or website owners, but then again, this will never be possible without the help from you of course. Management requires from this sites, and that’s mainly the reason why it is called social sites for you have to participate socially from your fellow members..
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Hey its really an amazing tips. I really like it. Thanks f or sharing. Keep it up
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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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