Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Boosting You SEO With Images

Jenny Field with the Denver Internet Business Examiner shares some interesting tips on how images can actually help with SEO. Many of us has been taught otherwise when it comes to image use and SEO. For interesting tips on how images can boost your SEO efforts read below:

"Images often get a bad rap in the SEO world, as SEO experts mostly give a brief explanation of their common hindrance in website ranking. The fact of the matter is that images, when used properly on your website, can actually help your site's ranking. Images, after all, are important, as our human eyes are naturally drawn to images before any text." for more SEO tip #2

Friday, March 13, 2009

On Point Strides Towards SEO Success

Many businesses put more effort into the aesthetics of their website and when they don’t get the business or traffic they were anticipating, turn to SEO as a last resort. In actuality Search Engine Optimization needs to be established from the beginning of a websites development project. Like many businesses, who learn the hard way; are left with an astonishing site to look at with few visitors. A site that is nearly impossible to locate via top search engines. This is where SEO comes in to save the day.

Often SEO professionals find their work cut out for them. Trying to optimize a site already built is quite difficult. It’s like trying to improve a home whose foundation was done all wrong to begin with. It often leaves businesses at a point where they are better of re-doing the entire site. Re-designing a site and creating one that has SEO success on the forefront instead of the back end. He are just a few beginning SEO thoughts to consider:

~A company area of expertise should be the basis of the text and keywords on the landing page of the site.

~Words used to describe the service you provide should also be included in your contents and tags.

~Select titles of site pages that are unique and contain frequently searched keywords.

~Select titles that are rich descriptive keywords to ensure increased hits and traffic.

~Due to the importance of keywords, knowing what your target keywords are from the beginning is best. Do so by researching the best keywords for your site.

~Search engine spiders crawls a site page and seeks Meta tags. This is where titles are obtained and used in search engines, examples are keywords and the description for each page.