| Ok, this could probably be the shortest SEO | | | | engine crawlers confirm what your page is all |
| lesson or course you'll ever see but if you can | | | | about. So using "fishing baits" again, you would |
| just keep to these 7 tips and apply them, you'll | | | | have something like "fishing baits" as your H1 tag |
| shoot right to the top of the SERPs (search | | | | and "types of fishing baits" as your H2 tag. Make |
| engine result pages). I promise. | | | | sense? |
| Drum roll please. | | | | 6) Onpage Relevancy |
| 1) URL / Domain - Make sure the keywords | | | | This stems down to your actual content and |
| you're targeting are somewhere in your domain | | | | keyword density. If you want to get your page |
| or url. | | | | about fishing baits ranked well, the SE (search |
| E.g If my site is broadly about fishing, then I want | | | | engine) would expect to see related terms (refer |
| to preferably have the word "fishing" in my | | | | to tip #3) on the page. Also, be sure to have |
| domain name like fishingresource or fishingfreaks | | | | your keyword/keyphrase repeated a couple of |
| or whatever. And taking it one step further, if I | | | | times (but to the stage of keyword spamming) |
| wanted to target fishing baits for a page on my | | | | as well. |
| domain, I would do something like | | | | 7) BACKLINKS, BACKLINKS, BACKLINKS |
| fishingresource.com/fishing-baits.htm Got it? | | | | Ok, enough of onsite optimization (tips #1-6). |
| 2) Title Tag | | | | Now this step is literally the MOST IMPORTANT |
| Be sure to have your target keywords | | | | (say that again pls) of all. You must get lots of |
| somewhere in your tag. Especially near the front. | | | | backlinks to the page you want to be ranked for. |
| It's a science! *wink* | | | | Like anything else, there's a right and wrong way |
| 3) Meta Keywords | | | | of doing things. |
| Again ... be sure to have your keywords in your | | | | With backlinks, you want to be sure to have your |
| meta keywords tag. Oh and have related terms | | | | keywords as your anchor text. Not sure what I'm |
| there as well. | | | | talking about? |
| Tip: Head over to Quintura. It will help you identify | | | | Take a look at this: |
| related keywords (technically, it's called LSI) | | | | [a href= title="fishing baits"] Fishing Baits [/a] |
| 4) Meta Description | | | | So basically it's like this: |
| Write this in a natural language and just like the | | | | [a href='the page you want to be ranked for' |
| Title tag, have your keywords in there and near | | | | title="your keywords"]"Your Keywords" [/a] |
| the front. Keep it short and succinct otherwise | | | | Tip: By the way, make sure the backlinks you get |
| there will be keyword dilution. | | | | are from pages without the "nofollow". Google it |
| 5) H1 and H2 Tags | | | | to find out more. |
| Need I say more? This is to help the search | | | | |