How to optimise your web page in 10 steps

10 Steps to Perfectly Optimising your Page

Search Engine OptimisationWhat does a perfectly optimised pagelook like in 2012?Here are the 10 elements…

Tip #1Title tags are stillimportant, but it’s not agood idea to over-optimisethem

Tip #2Descriptions still don’tappear to add muchranking value, but can helpencourage clicks.

Tip #3Header tags still need to berelevant

Tip #4URL still ideally mentionsthe keywords

Tip #5Content is now aboutsemantically relevant supportingkeywords, not multiple mentions.The example chosen is a recipe,because the specific ingredientsthat are 100 percent relevant tothe eventual outcome. One wayof checking what keywordsGoogle might consider asrelevant is to do a ‘~keyword’ (ortilde) search.

Tip #6Video and other ‘rich’content can be useful on apage to increaseengagement levels, reducebounce rates and also toappear alongside results asillustrated below.

Tip #7Internal links need tofollow the “reasonablesurfer” patent. It makessense in the “perfectlyoptimised page” examplehere, to link to peppercornsauce as an alternative tobéarnaise.

Tip #8Facebook/Twitter/other logincomments are a way of sharing thecontent on other platforms. Thedirect SEO benefit may be debatable,but it never hurts to get your contentin front of a large amount of people.With Google Search Plus Your World,it could be that adding a Google+login is more important thananything else.

Tip #9User reviews add regular content tothe page, which can also be coded toinclude microformatting instructionsand add extra elements to yourlistings in search engine result pages(SERPs). Research also suggests thatthe more reviews you have on a pagethe higher your conversion rate islikely to be.

Tip #10Newsfeeds only sharecontent that already existselsewhere, but theycontribute to an overallimpression of the pagechanging on a regular basis.

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