I read a lot of forums, blogs and websites and one thing that strikes me time and time again is how little most people know about natural search engine optimization. The real shocker for me is that it’s not always those who are new to being a website owner that seem to not know what SEO is, but people who have been blogging or maintaining sites for years.
I believe that search engine optimization begins with the purchase of your domain name. If you are writing a site about bikes it’s important to have the word bike in your domain name. The search engines will like that and might give your site a higher standing on search engine results. After all the whole point of optimizing our sites for search engines is so that people doing searches can find us easily.
If your your site comes up on page 10 of a Google search results page it’s unlikely that you’ll have many visitors. However if you consistently pick appropriate keywords for your sites articles, article titles, page titles, site titles and even domain names you’ll have a good chance that your site will be found on the first page of search engine results.
My sites tend to do well in search engine rankings because I try to use keywords in my articles that describe the topic I’m writing about and I also try to use a descriptive title for my posts.
I shake my head when I visit a blog and see a great article about a specific topic yet the title is some off the wall line like “Yaba daba do what a day!”.
If you really aren’t sure how to optimize your site for search engines you might want to hire a search engine optimization company to help you. They can take a look at your site and do a consultation. Perhaps they’ll give you a price quote that contains a list of what they’d do to optimize your site.
Many search engine optimization services such as the one I’ve linked to above, submitawebsite.com, have information about SEO techniques that you can begin to use on your own to better your standings on search engines.
As I said earlier a SEO company will also offer a number of SEO services that you might want to use to promote your site just as text link ads, optimizing your site for search engine placement, pay per click services and management and many other services that could help your site reach number one on in the search engine results.
If you don’t have time to optimize your site for search engines on your own do look into the services of a SEO company. It’s worth it if you want to boost your traffic.
“Yaba daba do what a day! . LMAO
You had me at Yaba daba do. I might steal that for an actual post title. It’s too funny.
I have seen a big difference in hits from Google after I started thinking a little about keywords and title.
Now I just wish I could go back and rewrite my old posts.
SEO is important to where you end up on Google. They also say you should try to optimize for keyword that have traffic and competition. I never have been very good at that part.
seo is very improtant! more than all other stuff!
SEO? That’s a new one to me.
Hmm…understand the importance of SEO, but can’t afford professional help at this point…
btw, does “URL restricted byt robots.txt” error affect page ranking at all??? Google has indexed my site, but PR shows N/A. Any idea why???
@ Thomas: I thought that you could rewrite your old posts and get counted again? Doesn’t Google check to see if anything is different, and report those differences?
I’ve seen a lot of posts like these lately, but it’s always interesting to see what different people have to say about the topic.
It’s a lots of considerations around SEO. In the beginning most people started to search by one single word – Then it was easy. To day, when people are more sophisticated – it’s the combination of word that’s count – unless you pay for beeing at page 1. And that’s a problem – for the “surfers”. What’s payed for – and what’s not…
have a thrilling weekend
I really could do better at my titles and my tags. I tend to make sure my posts are pretty well written, then plop whatever in the tag line or in the title. I look at keywords once in awhile too… but sigh I probably just don’t get it. Very cool flowers in the top post, it’s moving into the dog days of summer here so most of my summer blooms are done.