Wednesday, September 5, 2007

An overview of SEO Process

What is SEO process?

Seems strange to the beginners who have developed a website but needs to promote it. It is a way to improve your website visibility in search engines especially the top ones like Google, yahoo and msn etc. This helps in getting targeted visitors to your website who can become prospective buyers. Most of people do not go beyond the three pages of search engines so it becomes necessary to get your site listed within the first three pages.

Beginning of SEO Process

SEO process begins from choosing your domain name for your website. It depends on the product or the services which you offer in your website. If the domain name is keyword related then its considered as good option because keyword rich domains gets easily promoted in the search engines and it is easier to find the alternate and supports keywords for this type of domain. In case a service or business is to be promoted in a region then domain can be selected on the basis of region. Suppose a loan website is to be promoted in UK then domain could be with the extension of uk.

Design SEO friendly website

Design a website which complies with web accessibility standards. Make it W3C compliant html compliant and CSS compliant, There should be no use of frames within the website. Minimize the use of flash content. Use anchor text for images and hyperlinks. Make user friendly site navigation. Make html and xml sitemaps. Keep keyword oriented file names. Give relevant and unique title to each page.

Content

Put unique content in website it is must to have good search engine rankings. Search engines gives preference to the fresh content. Content must be keyword rich and quality oriented. Quantity of content doesn’t matter rather than the quality.

Link development

There are two ways of link development one way and reciprocal. In reciprocal you find the site which seems relevant and match with and you send a link exchange request to them. This is reciprocal link exchange. By link building process you can exchange link with quality websites.

Off page optimization

Write articles for your website and submit it in quality article directories. Submit site in quality directories. Do forum postings giving your website link in signature? Write bogs for your website.

Also take account of visitors and check visitor’s status from time to time.

For people who depend on their websites for online businesses search engine optimization is an ongoing process. Having your online presence does not meet any purpose if no one knows about you so there is vital need for SEO process for every company.



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