SEO Tips

Here are a few SEO tips that you can use to help improve your SEO rankings.
Side Note: SEO (Also known as search engine optimization)

Optimizing Your Website for the Search Engines - Part 3
By Tawnya Sutherland

Now you’ve chosen your keywords, what now?

#1, you need to incorporate your keyword phrases into your main content.

A few tips for the main content on your webpage are as follows:

* Remember that content is KING so you should always have a bare minimum of 250–300 words on each page. 1200 words per page have been proven to optimize better than 250 words for keyword phrases. Seems like a lot of words on your webpage but remember why people come to the Internet, it is for information.

* Never try to optimize for more than 2 or 3 keyword phrases per page as this may end up diluting all of the phrases.

* Make sure each word stands alone ie) We offer “medical/legal transcription for small businesses”. The slash in this case makes it an unreadable word for the search engine so you must change it. Either separate the slash with a space on either side or it or better yet say “We offer medical transcription and legal transcription for small businesses” in your copy.

* Keep the majority of your keyword phrases in the top fold of your website The top fold is the area of your website you can see in your browser window without having to scroll down. 
Final word about content…it is KING remember?? Anyhow, if you are on a budget write your own content. If you are going to spend any extra money in your business, I would suggest hiring a professional website copywriter as they know exactly how to incorporate your keywords effectively into your content.

Stay turn for Part 4 - 10 Ways to Optimize the HTML code on your website in upcoming future issues of VANF Newsletter.

Search Engine Optimization Technique (Part 4)

About the Author:
Tawnya Sutherland is a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist and also a Canadian Certified Virtual Assistant. Founder of the VANF Forum for Virtual Assistants and Author of The VAS System, a business start-up system for virtual assistants.