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SEO Basics: 6 Essentials When Optimizing Your Site

What Search Engines Are Looking ForRelevancy of websites is determined by the following things:

• Content (text, title, description etc. on the page)• Authority (good content to link)• Performance (speed and proper working)• User experience (looks of site, easy to use, looks safe,

etc.)

What Search engines are NOT looking forItems the search engines don’t want are:• Keyword Stuffing (overuse of keywords on pages)• Purchased Links (buying links will get you nowhere)• Poor User Experience (too many ads etc.)

Know Your Business ModelYou just need to sit down and just focus on what their following main goals:

• What defines a conversion for you?• Do you know your assets and liabilities?• Are you selling eyeballs (impressions) or what

people click on?• What are your goals?

Don’t Forget to Optimize for Multi-ChannelsKeyword strategy is not only important to implement on-site, but should extend to other off-site platforms for multi-channel optimization. These multi-channel platforms include:

• Facebook• Twitter• Email• LinkedIn• Offline, such as radio and TV ads

Be Consistent With Domain NamesSome of the best practices with domain names are:• Consistent Domains: • Keep it Old School: Old domains are better if previous owner

didn’t do anything so that domain gets penalized.• Keywords in URL: Having keywords you’re trying to rank for in

your domain will only help your overall efforts.

Optimizing for Different Types of Results In addition to optimizing for the desktop experience, make sure

to focus on mobile and tablet optimization as well as other media.

Create rich media content like video, as it’s easier to get a video to rank on the first page than it is to get a plain text page to rank.

Optimize your non-text content so search engines can see it.

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