FUNDAMENTALS OF SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION.
How do search engines find your website, and how does your website find its way into search engines? Think of it this way, every page on your website is an opportunity to communicate with search engines. Savvy web developers sometimes overlook this simple rule when constructing a new website.
Here are the five most important rules to consider:
1) Title meta tag
2) Description meta tag
3) Visible HTML page content
4) Descriptive Links
These are the A, B, and C’s of Search Engine Optimization. On the other hand, more factors figure in the ranking algorithms of Google, Bing, and other search engines. You need to know here to build a solid Search Engine Optimization foundation.
TITLE META TAG
Take a look at the first one, the ‘Title Meta Tag.
<TITLE>Rudy red ballet slippers with diamonds</TITLE>
A highly descriptive title tag helps increase the likelihood of searching for any combination of these words — Ruby Red Slippers will return a result for this website.
The title tag should be different for every page of your website. It should be short, descriptive, and relevant to your web page content. Try not to exceed 68 to 70 characters for your title tag length. But it does not stop there. The major search engines will look at the following line in your Meta tags, the ‘Description meta tag.
DESCRIPTION META-TAG
Take another look at the HTML code and look at its description tag – <meta name= “description” content= “Providing systems integration for voice, video, and data solutions from initial planning, consultation, design, integration, and implementation.”>
The description tag gives more descriptive information about your website page to search engines. The description tag should also be different for every page of your website. It should be short, descriptive, and relevant to your web page content. One or two short, highly descriptive sentences work well.
So does this all work? Is it worth the effort? Try the following real-time test and see for yourself. Go to Google and search ‘video conferencing Virginia’ or ‘video conferencing Virginia Beach.’ Vicom should appear in the top 5 search results provided by Google.
VISIBLE HTML PAGE CONTENT
HTML is the text on your page. Moreover, your text should be informative and to the point. In otherwords, try to bold or bold-underline vital words in your copy. Good grammar and well-formed sentences count too. If you struggle to write excellent text, hire a professional copywriter. Your website is your 24/7 advertisement worldwide and needs to be clear, creative, and persuasive.
DESCRIPTIVE LINKS
It would help to have descriptive links within your website’s copy and as part of your website navigation. For example, if you were selling oversized shoes and your target audience was males in the United States, a good link to have in your copy or navigation would be:
Oversized Shoes for Men
Men’s Oversized Shoes
Men’s Shoes Large Sizes 12 – 20
and so on.
Now, let’s say your target audience was more regional — for the Hampton Roads area of Virginia:
Oversized Shoes for Men – Hampton Roads Virginia
Men’s Oversized Shoes – Portsmouth, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach
Further, optimize your links by having a descriptive navigation link or link contained within the copy of your web page, which links to a relevant page or topic. For example, Oversized Shoes for Men links to a page with a title tag, description tag, keywords, and content about men’s oversized shoes. Some webmasters prefer this as interior website Search Engine Optimization.
Sticking to solid fundamentals for Search Engine Optimization will make your website climb in the search engines and expose your product, service, issue, or cause to far greater audiences.
ABOUT VISIONEFX
The VISIONEFX SEO team understands that you want your business website to get top exposure on Google. To do that, you need professional search engine optimization. We build an SEO strategy with your traffic goals in mind from planning to launch.
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