10 On-page SEO Factors That You Should Keep In Mind

If you have ever asked yourself  “What can I do to improve my website?” – most of you (including me, before I was familiar with On-Page SEO) would probably start trying to change little details like background color, text font and stuff like that.

Well this is not bad at all.Actually it is really good that you are trying to make your website more user-friendly. But what about the search engines? Did you ever tried to make your space  SE friendly? Even if you did, did you know how to do it? If your answer is “no”, in this article  I will explain few factors that could help you rank better in  the big G.

10 On-Page SEO Factors That You Should Keep In Mind.

1. Sitemaps -  They are very important to make sure that Google and the others Search Engines can easily find all of the pages on the website. If you are like me and you use WordPress you can go and download the Google Sitemap Generator plugin.
2. Using keywords in your URL – this can help you rank better. In my opinion its not so important for Google but I know for sure that MSN will rank you higher if you have your keyword in your URL.
3. Keyword In Title Tag
4. Using your keywords in bold and italic inside posts – this can really help you rank higher but don’t overdo it – then it will look like spam and it will f*** up your rankings.
5. Using your keyword often in body text – important overdoing it can get you penalty usually 6-7% of the whole text is a good option.
6. Naming Images With Your Keyword – Do you use images? Do you know that when you use the “alt” tag on them with your keyword they can help you rank higher? But again don’t overdo it. 1-2 images with keyword in alt tag are more than enough(for a page).
7. Internal links should contain descriptive keywords – use anchor text.
8. External Links – Don’t link to bad links (these are websites that google has banned – link farms, spam sites etc),your Page Rank can fall significantly.
9. Top Level TLD domains – .org , .net , .com seem to rank higher. .Info’s rank lower – that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t make .info sites of course if you have good content and good SEO you can get good results.It’s just that I am not seeing so many .info’s in top 10 results anymore.
10. Editing Pages – can reduce your rankings. Changing keywords and meta descriptions is bad as well.

These are very important on-page SEO factors when building a web page. Of course there are a lot of other things but I will be talking about them in my next on-page seo articles.

Some Related Posts:

• July 12, 2011 -- 9 Free Tips On How To Build Links – How To SEO
• July 27, 2011 -- How Should I Start A Website? – Answer Series #1
• January 18, 2009 -- Doing Successful Keyword Research in 6 steps
• January 11, 2009 -- What is SEO?

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