25 Must Have Basic Seo Practices

[praz]

There are lots of advanced SEO & marketing techniques, which you will be using but before that you must use these basic SEO stratagies before putting your effort on those things.

1. Get-your-domain-name-dot-com/org/net( The main TLD’s are preffered but if you are focusing on local visiters of your country, then getting a countly specific extension like .us or .uk helps a lot)
2. Hosting your site/blog on a reliable hosting company.(If you are using free services like blogger or wordpress.com then sooner or latter you will need those services which they don’t provide, so rather than wasting your time in those free services, spend few bucks on hosting & domain)
3. Never put your domain name in the Meta Title > if anything your registered BUSINESS NAME should be here and the last few words of the 60 character title.
4. Never start a word pass 58 characters < stop text is 60 - 65 but if last word is "association" you can easily make an "***" on your site.
5. Use wordtracker.com to research the proper keywords for your site.
6. Add the robots tag & Place the robots.txt in your root on your server.
7. Make sure to have a site map page.
8. Make sure you have 404 page.
9. Use css instead of color, size and font tags.
10. Change the link buttons or js links in to text links.
11. Include your keywords in the alt tags of images.
12. Use the H1 tag for page headings (you can alter the way h1 displays text with CSS)
13. Get rid of the js in the code and put it in an external file.
14. At the bottom of each page use menus as text links.
15. Make sure your page code is not bigger than 100 K.
16. Submit your site to ODP(make sure to select the right category), Yahoo Dir, and other free directories like gimpsy.com and goguides.org etc.
17. Try to get as much as relevant links you can.
18. Read each search engines guide lines and follow them strictly.
19. Don’t spam & Don’t cloak.
20. Don’t use doorway pages.
21. Pay special attention to your content.
22. Put your competitors on your site and compare your positive points to their negative points (be truthful though).
23. Syndicate your content (if possible you can use Feedburner service which helps a lot in tracking your feed subscribers).
24. Use a good visitor tracking system like Google Analytics.
25. Write unique & interesting contents & use social bookmarking sites like digg.com & del.icio.us.

Remember SEO isn’t just about getting to #1… it’s also about selling "more" once you’re there!

[yukon]

Your posting a lot of new threads in a very short amount of time.

Are you trying to jack up your post count or what?

You posted this thread first like you know seo, then you post another (of many) thread ( Introduction to SEO ), like you don't know seo.

Originally Posted by praz

Hello peepz,
Glad to meet all of you! I would like to start a thread for Complete No0Bies like me to help them understand what is Search Engine Optimization and how to get it working! I think you peepz can contribute some info on this and how to begin into the world of SEO! Please Guys,
Help US!!

[sujata]

Nice post for noobs..

[wahidswebgarage]

nicely written.

[strategic seo services]

Thanks for the useful post.

[dadamson]

Good list, but write something original next time. This exact list is all over the internet already.

[gtk29]

Or you can use Wordpress and install SEO plugin and it will take care of things

[altoro80]

Nice useful post, thanks

[App Developers]

Thanks for the post but.........looks a little strange to post so much so fast.....