Posted on 25 July 2010 by Kittu
The main purpose of an article’s title is to grab the attention of the reader. The title should be compelling enough to make the visitor read the entire post. As a site optimizer, this doubles up your task. You need to write an article title which is both search engine friendly and attention grabbing. If you lose the balance, you may rank well in the search engines, but due to a shabby title- no visitor will enter your site.
A title forms the first line of every search result and is the first thing a visitor sees about a website. In fact, many visitors enter the website upon reading the title and without so much of a glance towards the description. Continue Reading
Posted on 14 May 2010 by Kittu
One of the most common questions I have come across Is, Can I learn SEO? The answer is, absolutely anyone and everyone can optimize their website. The question is, can you invest sufficient time and efforts on your website? Once the initial excitement wears off and results are not in sight, many novice optimizers lose interest in the process. What they don’t understand is that time and patience is an integral part of SEO. Google isn’t going to place your website on top in a snap.
If you are determined to see your website through, do your homework on the process of SEO. It’s rightly said that half knowledge is dangerous. You have to ensure that your website doesn’t end up getting banned from search engines. All because of some point you overlooked. Continue Reading
Posted on 18 September 2009 by Kittu
If you’re a Web Developer or a Search Engine Optimizer, chances of you not hearing about Meta Tags don’t exist and If you’re a budding SE optimizer, Optimizing Meta Tags is one of the first lessons you’ll learn.
Every time I optimize a website I check who my competitor’s are. Everyone who ranks above me for the keyword I am optimizing is competition. Simple. When I started SEO, I managed to get hold of some good books & some great websites offering tips on search engine optimization. One common tip I learned was: Make sure that Meta Tags are optimized to be search engine friendly. Second, Its good to know what keywords your competitor is optimizing. If they are on top, you must be missing out on something important.
Hence, the Inspiration for this post. This post contains some great Meta Tag Analyzer Tools. These Meta Tag Analyzer Tools help in analyzing a web page and check for search engine compatibility. Most of these Meta Tag Analyzers use the same spider technology as search engines do. So, you can use these Free SEO Tools to check the effectiveness of your Meta Tags. More Importantly, Grow as a Search Engine Optimizer. Continue Reading
Posted on 05 September 2009 by Kittu
On Page Optimization includes all the SEO techniques that you can use on your own site without the help of other websites to rank well. These On Page SEO techniques apply to all the content of your web pages. There are a number of On Page elements that one can optimize for; but the most important of all is the page title.
The title of your web page is the first most visible element and appears in the <title> tag of the <head> section. Because of its prominence, the title of your web page is the most important on page elements to be optimized. A good SEO title should have the key phrases in appropriate proximity and density. A balance has to be maintained taking the above factors and the title length in consideration. A good page title is also short and catchy. Continue Reading
Posted on 04 July 2009 by Kittu
The TITLE Tag :
The <TITLE> tag is a very important factor where search engines are concerned. The <TITLE> tag of your webpage is most appreciated by Google who gives it a lot of importance. The main function of the <TITLE> tag is telling the browser what text to display in the title bar. Continue Reading
