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!
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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!
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/
Be sure to list your site in quality web directories.
Loren Baker Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Which quality directories would you recommend?
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.
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
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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
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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/
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.
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.
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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!
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.
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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.
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!
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!
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.