10 SEO Tips Ill Take To My Grave

Glen Allsopp / Leave a Comment / May 7th, 2007 / Subscribe via RSS

Everyone is an SEO ‘n00b’ at one time or another and for me it was about 18 months ago. Whilst learning you hear certain things over and over again making you believe that they are true, however as I soon found out many of them wernt. You may think im stupid having 10 SEO Tips that Ill never change no matter what anybody says, but hey thats just me and I go by what Ive seen work with my own eyes and my own tests so here they are:

1. Keywords in the Title Tag, get your main keywords for that page in the title tag
2. non-www to www 301 Redirect. OK so you can tell Google which one you prefer but I would rather not have too and kill two birds with one stone
3. Keywords in the Footer. I always believe having a small section of text in the footer with the keywords that you are optimising for is important as its the ‘last thing the Spider sees’
4. Great Navigation. This includes a Sitemap, good footer navigation and deeplinks to other pages in your site from some of your main and more ‘authoritative’ pages
5. H Tags. Im not sure how long these will be effective but Im still seeing results with them. It kind of helps me in terms of the design purpose setting h1 at the top of the page and h2 as sub headings
6. Be Involved in the Community. What? Didnt expect this one? Well I value it very strongly. If you are going to get big in your niche you must be an active member in your community to get people to notice and respect you, even give you a little link love.
7. Follow the Web. I cant give any better SEO Tip then to stay active on SEO Forums and Read SEO Blogs then to actually do that. Remember that not everyone gives great advice so test things out for yourself.
8. Backlinks. Of course you expected this one to come up, or did you? No matter how good the ‘AI’s’ get for noticing quality content backlinks are still going to show what people are talking about or caring about on the web. Even if the bar does get raised in terms of their quality guidelines
9. Good Content goes a long way. Ill always believe in content, its what people remember, learn from and even link too if your lucky. Its what the web is revolving around and what people use to make money. Content is content and content is king.
10. Do Nothing for the SE’s. OK maybe I should expand this a little. I put my titles in <h1> tags in order to hopefully show a little more importance but I dont do it for them, I do it for me to rank higher and get more traffic ;). Keep your real website visitors in mind at all times and you cant go far wrong

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