10 SEO Tips [that work]

Here is a list of SEO methods I find help crack the magical SEO challenge of getting your website higher up in the rankings.

Title Tags:

• Your title should contain important keywords.
• Use a different title on every page.

Links need titles too:

• Add a title tag to every <a> tag and give a short description (5 words) what the link is about.
• Tip: Be honest and don’t just cram random keywords into this section.
• EX: <a href=“about.html” title=“Come find out more about us”>About Us</a>

Image Alt:

• Add the Alt attribute to all of your images.
• EX: <img src=”gnomes.jpg” alt=”A bunch of happy gnomes” />

Be standard:

• Validate all of your work.
• Search engines / Spiders like websites that are created properly.
• Validate your site via w3c – Validate Now

Use common tags:

• Be sure to use the <H1>, <H2>, <P> and other common tags.

Link around:

• Make sure you have links coming in to as many pages as possible.

SiteMap:

• Google + SiteMap = Love
• Create a sitemap via XML-Sitemaps
• Link to your sitemap here via Google Webmaster Tools

Submit your site:

• Submit your site to Google and Yahoo
• You only need to do it once this is just to be safe.

Local business center:

• If you type in “restaurants 92106″ into google maps it will give you a listing of local restaurants around the area code 92106.
• To get your site to do this, add it to Googles Local Business Center Click here to add your site

Helpful tips:

• Get the word out by adding your URL to any account you have online (facebook, myspace, youtube account…)
• Help people out on forums (people wit questions) and have your URL in your signature, Don’t spam. Help and they will come.