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Expert Pro SEO Tutorial

SEO Tips

SEO Tips that will help your site reach a better ranking (aka Search Engine Optimization Cheat Sheet)

    Web Page SEO Tips

  • Page title (i.e. what is inside the <title></title> tag)
  • Pick good URLs for your articles
  • Titles within your content (h1 and h2 tags)
  • Quality content with targeted keywords and variations (keyword density 2-3%, use synonyms etc…)
  • First sentence is important (see Advanced concepts – Google indexing algorithm)
  • All HTML elements are an opportunity for keywords (alt text for images, image filenames etc…)
  • Hard to control, but comments with your targeted keywords can help
  • Meta tags (Description can end up being what appears in Google;Keywords does not seem to be used any more)
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Newbie SEO

SEO Basics (search engine optimization)

This article will cover the why, what and how of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). 

What exactly is SEO?
Each search engine (e.g. Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc) ranks web sites and lists them in their engines according to that ranking. The engines decide which criteria to use when ranking sites.  Some factors are well known.  Others are more obscure and mysterious.