Well you optimize your site for keywords that people may use on different search engines like Google etc to find your site. This optimization step usually means that you make your content unique, interesting and people friendly while intelligently using those keywords within your content. What this does in very simple words is that when your website is 'noticed' by search engines for having good content that is unique and has a certain density for a keyword or key-phrase it bumps up your ranking in the search engines rankings. This means that more people will be able to come to your site as it is more accessible (closer to the top rankings).
There are other things that govern this like on-page and off-page SEO, difference techniques etc. If you're interested in learning about those you can simple Google some basic SEO tutorials. There are plenty out there and most are very easy to follow.
Hal Smith
URLdreamer Consultant
The best and most basic tips for SEO is to choose a long tail keyword, create content around this that is useful and then create backlinks.
Most Basic tips for Search Engine Optimization is :
1. Start doing On page of your website which involved :
a. Title tag (60-65 Character)
b. Meta Description (155-165 Character)
c. Meta Keywords
d. Site Map (xml, html and ror files)
e. Restrict page by Robots.txt
f. Use Heading Tag
g. Use Alt tag for images
h. Navigation must be properly arranged
i. Content updation on regular interval of time
j. Geo Tagging if website is targeting any particular region or globally
k. Keywords with proper density in content body
l. Every service page need different title, description and meta keywords
m. Submit website into Google Webmaster Tool and Google Analytics for your website
2. Off Page Task
a. Submit your website into Google and other search engine
b.Directory Submission
c. Social Bookmarking
d. Blog Posting
e. Blog Commenting
f. Article Posting
g. Press Release
h.Yahoo Answer, Quora Answer
i. Forum Posting
j. Squidoo Lens Creation
k. Hub Pages Creation
l. Blog Content Updation 2 times in a week
These are some major flow of task and if you follow in similar manner definately your website visibility get on better position into Search Engine.
Try to generate more backlinks from content based website i.e. article posting, press release, blog posting, blog commenting, forum .
Hey Quennie,
Search engine optimization is a rather long and complicated subject, but it is by far the best way to get free traffic to your site. Here are some great articles on the subject that I recommend to all of my students. You of course don't have to do everything at once, take it a step at a time. It takes a while to climb the rankings, so don't be in a hurry.
Best of luck,
Write original content and get backlinks from high quality sites. Also, your content should be keyword focued; randomly created content cannot rank high. You could take assistance from her http://www.amazon.com/Kristi-Ambrose/e/B... She has been in the SEO world for a very long time: more than 10 years.
For finest WEB OPTIMIZATION results I highly recommend applying Google Search Bot: http://is.gd/gsbsoftware Using that application I've positioned our site to first page of Google on a extremely high competitive key phrase.
Go to seomoz first article about seo.
Sitemap, home, title, meta tags, alt tags, keywords, submit your site to search engine, friendly links
