Top 5 Steps To Ranking High In The Search Engines

SEO can be never be over-rated. It’s a MUST if you don’t want your site/blog lost in the midst of countless websites that are popping up everyday.

Below are the Top 5 Basic SEO tips every blogger and webmaster must master.

1. You must use your keyword in the Blog and Post’s URL: This is quite easy to achieve in wordpress blogs if you’re using permalinks. Blogger blogs are limited to 35 characters in the post’s URL.
2. You must use your keyword in your Blog Title
3. You must use your keywords in your Post Titles: There are two types of Post Titles. The one you show to your blog readers and the one the search engines display. Your search engine post title MUST be optimized for your keyword. All In SEO Pack plug-in can help you achieve that)
4. You must use your keywords and related terms in your post content: Try as much as possible to repeat your keywords and their variants in your post content especially in the first and last paragraphs. Some say keep keyword density @ below 5%, I say use your keywords and their variants as much as is needed without being spammy. You be the judge of what’s spammy. Your conscience should guide you
5. You must use keywords in the alt tags of your images as Google’s bot also feeds off that

The above tips were made possible by Grizzly Bear’s How to Get Traffic to Your Website or Blog. If you’ve got any SEO tips of your own do share below.

Update: Google recently announced that they no longer pay attention to keywords. They’ll now decide your keywords based on your site/post’s content. I’ll continue using them as other search engines use them.

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