Onpage SEO is needed to ensure your website is seo friendly. Not optimized website will not get good results in the search engines. Of course, an seo company would maintain everything necessary for sucessful seo, but if you didn’t hire one as of yet – take a look at quick OnPage SEO guide.
Each and every web page should be indexed by search engines. Make sure that they all have minimum one link from somewhere on your site.
The content is the king, make sure you have good unique content on every single page.
Check that your meta-tags are correct. Page title tag and description tag should describe the content of the actual web page. The page title tags should be less than 65 characters and description tags more than 145 characters.
Make sure you are using H tags to label headers of your web pages and check that the links within your site are complete. For instance, if you are linking to the advertise online page, it should look like loveclients.com/advertise-online as apposed to just /advertise-online.
Use descriptive URLs for all of your images rather than naming them randomly. You will also need to use the to label the images with descriptive alt attributes.
Try to make good use of anchor text links within your content. If you have a web page dedicated to paid inclusion, use the phrase paid inclusion in the text that links to it. Keep in mind, the anchor text can influence your ranking in the search engines.
Pay attention to the fact that search engines consider http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com different websites. Be sure to check that 301 redirect all non www URLs to the www ones or vice versa, otherwise you will be splitting the potential benefit of link popularity. The consolidation will will increase your ranking positions in search engines.
Use he rel=”nofollow” tag in the links to websites you don’t trust, as well as on pages that you don’t want to be in search engines.
Use the W3C validator to check your markup. Your code should be valid, because in some instances errors in code cause problems to search engines reading a web page.
Following these simple rules you will achieve good OnPage SEO and better rankings in the search engines. However, OffPage SEO and seo analytics is also an essential component of seo process.
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This post was written by Robjohn on June 10, 2009
