SEO Tips & Tricks

th13rteen · #1 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2008

Lets talk about SEO. From the basics to the advanced. And blackhat SEO is also welcomed. I'm going to start by giving some basic tips.

SEO = Search Engine Optimization. If you don't know what SEO is then you can check this out: What is SEO? Â» Brain Feed Labs

Basic Tips:

1. Add meta description and meta tags. Yeah it's true that some search engines like Google don't care about meta data but it is still a good idea to have them. Meta description actually attracts traffic. Like meta description lets you give a nice little description of a page and it helps visitors to decide if they want to go to your site or not.

You can add meta data by putting the following codes between your <head> & </head>

HTML Code:

<meta name="keywords" content="Put your keywords in here. Make sure you put relevant keywords and don't add a lot of them." /> <meta name="description" content="Put a nice little description of your web page here. Keep it short!" />

2. Add alternate text in images. Why? People will know what the image is for, if the image gets deleted from the server or you wrote the wrong path. And search engines appreciate it.

Here's an example:

HTML Code:

<img src="/images/mypic.gif" alt="This is a picture of me" />

3. Do not make a site fully based on flash! That is a big no no!

4. Do not make a site fully based on images. Like even the text on your site is an image that was made in Photoshop for example. Search engines can't see pictures! They can only see text.

5. Search engines like quality content. Make sure that you don't copy/paste content from other sites. That will be considered as duplicate content, and it will kill your SEO!

6. Splash pages are not a good idea. Search engines don't like splash pages. Since most of the time it does not have any content and just has a nice button saying "enter" or something similar.

7. Google loves blogs! Why? Because blogs have the same structure through out the whole site and are updated more often. Google spiders index blog posts faster than web pages.

fade · #2 (**permalink**) March 12th, 2008

Good advice th13teen, on top of that Id worry about generating backlinks in alike industry sites, and on authority sites for your niche whatever that may be.

sanjiv · #3 (**permalink**) May 6th, 2008

thx useful
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elTico · #4 (**permalink**) May 6th, 2008

u dont need this..look http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr.../jivhost.uk.to

th13rteen · #5 (**permalink**) May 6th, 2008

That's the rank of the .uk.to domain. Not his site. His site is on a subdomain and Alexa doesn't count that. It counts the rank for the domain.