What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization is a technique to optimize the content of a website to improve its position in search result. Only Natural, Organic & Algorithmic way to increase the volume & quality of traffic is called as Search Engine Optimization. Actually, Search Engine Optimization will increase the ranking of website in search result which automatically increase the website traffic.
There are to type Search Engine Optimization techniques. One is White HAT SEO & another is Black HAT SEO.
White HAT SEO
is the technique which are acceptable by every search engine and Black
HAT is the technique that are not liked by search engines.
White HAT SEO also has two hands i.e. ON-page SEO & OFF-Page SEO. In this article we will discuss about White HAT, ON-Page SEO.
How to Become an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Expert and Optimize Your Website?
On-page SEO technique means those optimization trick which we can do with editing the content. Off-Page tricks are those tricks which have no relation with the page (like link building & sharing).See below tricks to optimize your website content and get better ranking in search result.
1.) Title, Meta Description & Meta Keywords for Search Engine Optimization
Everybody
know that title, meta description & meta keywords are first thing
to optimize the website content. Major search engine limit the Title to
65 characters (including Space & Special Characters). Meta
Description & Keywords are limited to 160 characters & 10 comma
separated words. Google had already cleared that they will not give any
preference to Meta Keywords but other search engine do. So using meta
keyword is beneficial since Google also not levied any penalty to use
them also.
Use the
Keyword in the beginning of the title is good for Search Engine
Optimization. Use the shorter sentence in the Meta Description with no
repetitive words.
2.) Permalink Structure for SEO
Another
important thing for SEO is the permalink structure of your page or
post. For example you want to optimize your page for “search engine
optimization” you can choose your permalink like www.example.com/search-engine-optimization/. This
link is preferred by the search engine. If your are using WordPress,
you can adopt custom permalink /%post_id%/%postname%. This is the best
permalink structure for SEO.
3.) Keyword Density & Character Limit for Good SEO Optimized Page
Ideal
keyword density of your keyword should be estimated around 1.5% to 4.5%
maximum. You have to take care that keyword density should be between
these limits. Also, it is recommended that a page should minimum have
300 words and maximum up to 1000. In any case if your page is exceeding
1000 words, split it in two page as a good SEO practice.
4.) Outbound Link & Use of Image for Search Engine Optimization
You
always write a article and didn’t give any insert any outbound link in
it. We suggest you to please insert at-least one do-follow outbound link
from your page. Always try to give this outbound link from the your
targeted keyword. This practice is liked by the search engine & they
will give you high ranking.
Use
at-least one image in your post and put your targeted keyword in “Alt”
tag of image. This will give you additional point for ranking in SERP.
5.) Page Load Speed for Search Engine Optimization
Google
has clear that they are considering page load speed also in ranking
factor. Fast loading page will enhance the user experience. So don’t use
flash and heavy scaled images on your page to speed up your page load
time. You can check your page speed load time on Google Insights, GT Matrix & Pingdom.
This tools also provide you the suggestion to optimize the page size to speed-up your page load time.