32 Most Important SEO Tips for Your Home Based Business
Following these simple tips will definitely boost your traffic and search
engine rankings for free.
1. Make sure your site is not under construction, incomplete, with little or
no unique content.
2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com.
Consider also submitting to other search engine but most of them are powered by
these four leading search engines. Submit also your site to reputable high PR
web directories, open directories, yellow pages and social bookmarking sites
such as del.icio.us, furl, etc.
3. Submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com (sitemap for search
engines usually in XML format)
4. Offer sitemap to your site visitors for easy page navigation. (sitemap for
visitors in HTML format)
5. Create unique and rich content sites. Avoid duplicate content. Do not
create multiple pages, sub-domains, domains, mirror sites or sites with
different domain names but same content.
6. Check your keywords and make sure they are relevant and actually are
contained in your site. Avoid keywords stuffing.
7. Use text instead of images in your content, links and important
subjects.
8. Make your TITLE and ALT tags descriptive, simple and keyword rich. Avoid
irrelevant and repeated keywords.
9. Title tag should be 60-80 characters maximum length.
10. Meta tag description should be 160-180 characters including spaces.
(about 25-30 words)
11. Meta Tag keywords must be 15-20 words maximum.
12. Optimize Pages with Headings (H1, H2, H3..) containing your site’s
primary keywords.
13. Validate your CSS and HTML. Check for errors and broken links.
14. If your site contains dynamic pages(i.e., the URL contains a “?”
character), make sure you use SEO friendly URLs. Search engines’ spiders having
difficulty indexing dynamic pages.
15. Maximum links per page must be fewer than 100. Avoid the risk of being
flagged as link farm by search engines.
16. Use Lynx as text browser to check your site. (lynx.isc.org)
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