“Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.” — Omaha Proverb
Hi,
In the middle of a conversation Gabriel, asked me: “By the way, any tips for SEO? Is what I am doing on my site OK?”
And I emailed him some good tips to improve his website. To make it better for the search engines.
Here’s my FIRST email:
“Here are some tips about this website:
http://32nod.110mb.com
First of all, the homepage should have content and a menu. Not just two links. Content can be an article or couple of them… and a menu so visitors can navigate through your website easily. For example in the menu put a link to the homepage, articles page and a sitemap.
A sitemap is a page, where you list the most important pages of your website. Just like mine: http://www.outranksmart.com/Sitemap.html
(notice also my menu at the bottom of that page)
And instead of putting my links and other link exchange partners on your website sidebar, you can create a so called linkspage. This will include categories and sub categories, and you put in your link partners in there… so your website is more organized.
Look at my linkspage for an idea:
http://www.outranksmart.com/links/resources.html
The other thing I truly suggest, is to buy your own domain when you can. You can purchase a domain from godaddy.com for around $9 a year. I then suggest you host your domain on hostgator.com (For $5 or less a month).
Here is a websites you can get coupon codes for hostgator.com discounts:
http://www.hostgatorcoupon.com
Hope all this helps.
Let me know if there is something specific you need help with.”
Gabriel’s one more question:
“One question, are the meta tags of the site good enough?”
Here’s my SECOND email:
“Meta tags are almost good.
Each page of your website needs unique meta tags – the section that needs to be unique is the meta title, description and keywords. Or if your website is BIG at least the most important pages.
BUT remember, only input your main keywords in the keyword tag. Even though the keyword tag is not very much useful anymore for seo – putting it is better than not.
Pick up say three keywords you want your website to rank in Google first page. The best three that also are not too difficult to get high rankings for, since this is the first time you are doing seo.
Construct also a longer description and input just your main keywords there. The important thing is that you do not repeat the same keyword over and over trying to cheat in a certain way.
Proper seo is all about finding the right keywords and then when getting backlinks using those keyword in the anchor text. And I highly recommend you pick just one keyword, that you can easily get it ranked. Here is why:
If you plan to upgrade to a paid hosting account, all the backlinks you have become useless. It will be as if a completely new website.
Pick a keyword, which has less than million competitors, if possible. Here are tools I use: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com (shows
daily searches)
A keyword with 100 searches a day is good.
I also noticed that the bottom menu Site Map | Partners | Disclaimer all three links link to the same page: http://32nod.110mb.com/nod32/disclaimer.html (maybe a simple mistake)
The other key is to keep your website organized. A folder or directory for articles, one for partners, one for legal information and so on.
Plus work smart, means check out a good looking website, like mine 
see how I create meta tags, see how I create menu and a sitemap. Try to make as much as possible like that.
The key after all this is getting as many backlinks as you can.”
Please leave your comments.
Talk to you soon,
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