SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 8

This is continued from SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 7 for make money online review and other blogs.

In the previous lesson, we learnt about on-site or onpage optimization techniques and how to title your site properly so that search engines can zero in on what your site is all about in order to rank it better. Next we learn more about using tags in onpage optimization to further improve your site.

LESSON 8 - PROPER USE OF TAGS FOR IMPROVED SEO RESULTS

Add < h1 > header tags

Next we’ll need to add 1 < h1 > header tag and place our most important keyword there.

The < h1 > header tag should be as far towards the top of the page as possible. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page.

Note: Here’s a neat free tool which allows you to visually see how the search engines view your webpage: http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml

So, it’s best to place your < h1 > header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page. You can think of an < h1 > header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page.

For example, the < h1 > header tag of this lesson would be:

“How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by
over 350 positions!”

… and the html code would look like this:
< h1 >”How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 350 positions!”< /h1 >

Of course, I would have changed my lesson title to contain my main keyword if I was actually trying to optimize this page for Google. Also, if possible, it’s ideal if you can include ONLY your main keyword within the h1 header tags. < h1 >Weight Loss Story< /h1 > would be perfect.

Add < h2 > header tags

Next, we’ll need to create an < h2 > header tag. This can be thought of as a sub heading for our webpage. You should place your 2nd most important keyword in the < h2 > header tag. The < h2 > tag should be placed somewhere towards the top half of your webpage.

A good < h2 > header tag for our example would be:

< h2 >safe weight loss< h2 > (Usually it’s best to place your primary keyword in your < h1 > tags and your secondary keyword into the < h2 > tags.

After we’ve done this, we need to actually create the content for our webpage. When writing the content, try to evenly sprinkle your main keywords throughout the copy. Don’t overdo it though.

Try to mention each keyword in a natural way as you are writing, but be sure to include at least one of the keywords per 1-2 paragraphs, depending on how large your page is.

Tip: Make sure to mention your main keyword at the very top left and the very bottom right hand side of the webpage. A trick I like to use is to include this in the copyright information line at the bottom of the website. For our example, this would be a good example:

© 2005 copyright www.domain.com a weight loss story

Notice that it flows and doesn’t really look too strange.

Bolding, italicizing and underlining …

Once we’ve finished writing the copy, we should go through and bold, underline, or italicize some of the keywords only 1 time each, maximum. Only do 1 per keyword or it will hurt you more than it helps. This isn’t crucial to do, but it’s good to maybe do this to a couple keywords…

Properly include image tags …

Next, click on the very top image of your webpage (This is usually your website’s header graphic) and include an image tag using the text “weight loss story header” if you’re adding this alt text to your website header graphic. Click on 2 more graphics throughout your webpage and enter your other 2 keywords, plus an extra word like “graphic” or “image”… For example, we would use “weight loss picture graphic” and “safe weight loss image”. This ensures that Google won’t view this as spam.

For example, if we have an image on our webpage called: picture1.jpg
The code that would be used to insert the image would look something like this:

Now, if we were to add an alt image tag called “Weight Loss Story Graphic”, we’d simply do this:

< img src=”picture1.jpg” mce_src=”picture1.jpg” width=”250″ height=”80″ border=”0″ alt=”Weight Loss Story Graphic” >

Reproduced with permission

Next: Lesson 9 - FORCE GOOGLE TO READ YOUR KEYWORDS FIRST

By making sure Google reads your keywords first which are found inside your main posts instead of wandering over other less important areas of your site such as the sidebar, you let Google know what keywords you are to be ranked for.

Previous lessons:
LESSON 1 - KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOL
LESSON 2 - CHOOSING THE RIGHT KEYWORDS
LESSON 3 - ASSESSING KEYWORD COMPETITION
LESSON 4 - USING GOOGLE FOR KEYWORD ANALYSIS
LESSON 5 - PAGERANK AND KEYWORD DOMINATION
LESSON 6 - CHECKING ON-SITE OPTIMIZATION
LESSON 7 - HOW ON-SITE OPTIMIZATION CAN MASSIVELY BOOST YOUR RANKINGS

Like this post? Subscribe to this RSS feed or get updates by email

Related posts other people have read:

SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 5

SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 3

SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 7

SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 4

SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 9