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On-Page Optimization


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Many people want to get a high ranking for various keywords or keyword phrases, but if you look at the text on their web pages you can hardly find these vital words. This is a major misunderstanding. It is true that your main keywords and key phrases should be in your title tag and your description meta tags, and even in the keywords meta tag, but they must also appear on the page itself and they must appear in some strategic places on that page. Search Engines will not recognize that your page is truly about a Product/Service unless these words appear in headlines on the page, in the opening paragraph, in the file or domain name in link text and in the body text of your page.

on page seo is all about site structure, unique content, right meta tags, heading tags, image optimizations, internal links.

For a full list of ranking factors, I would like to recommend article "search engine ranking factors" from seomoz.org.

Have a nice day,

yes thats true, the keywords need to be present also in the page content so the SE sees the page relevant to that particular keyword.

For onpage optimization it is necessary to:

Proper and effective Title
Efficient Meta description
Limited Meta keywords

Keyword in H1 tag and should be use once or twice
Keyword and subheading in H2 tag
Bold, italic keyword
Comment tag
Keyword density should not raise to 2.5%
Text density
Starting text with keyword
Ending text with keyword.

Regards,
Secondeye

Good code can also be a factor for Onpage SEO,because if less code is between the top of the page and the content,the spiders dont have a hard time crawling it and that may have a impact on speed.

For a new site, I have the keyword in the domain name, so I don't think I need to repeat it in the file names.

I am thinking that keeping the URLs short is more important in this case.

My site will feature tutorials that link to the home page where there is an affiliate offer.

So instead of widgetlessons.com/widgetlesson1.php I will have widgetlessons.com/1.php

I hope that this is the best approach.

The page titles will include the keyword text Widget Lesson 1 etc.

Originally Posted by Andy101

So instead of widgetlessons.com/widgetlesson1.php I will have widgetlessons.com/1.php

Last I tested, which was a long time ago, that didn't work well. Google didn't count keywords in the "directory" part of the "filename." (I sometimes have to remind myself that URL's aren't really just directories and filenames.)

The best approach for SEO is widgetlessons.com/widget-lesson-1.php.

Will, how much damage does an additional directory, let's say the year between the domain and the title of the URL?

e.g.: domain.com/2010/article-title ?

I'm asking this because my last bunch of programmers claimed they can't make it domain.com/article-title structure, although I asked them to.