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On-Site SEO Solutions

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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Proper Website SEO Solutions require many different things to happen all at once. Some of those changes are necessarily fluctuating and variable as information on the World Wide Web changes and search engine algorithms change to keep up with them. However, when you build your website, there are many different aspects of SEO that can and should be done right there on your website that will help you immensely when it comes to the page rank and the placement of your website on the SERP or Search Engine Results Page.

With the increased popularity of the CMS or Content Management System as a means for people to build websites, there are even more variables taking place. Some people mistakenly believe that the CMS itself or a plug-in or module added to that CMS will provide all of the SEO information that is needed for the search engine algorithms. Still other people have absolutely no idea what SEO is or why it is important for them if they want their website to be a success. The fact remains that no matter how good your CMS may be, no matter how well designed your site may be and no matter how great your intentions may be, that website is never going to do as well as it could until you add on some basic SEO functions onsite.

One of the most commonly overlooked aspects of on-site SEO is the simple and advanced Meta Tag. These are simply lines of text that are included in the head section of your website. If you are already writing the code for your website by hand, you already know what these are. If you are like many people and use some type of program to create a website, you can simply view the code, look towards the top of the page somewhere in between the < head > and < /head > tags and that is where the Meta Tags should be placed. Many of the search engines only display Meta information on the SERP and if there is nothing there, people will see nothing about your website and go elsewhere.

Having content that is keyword rich and optimized for the SERP is important but you also have to make sure that it is not keyword spam or you will lose readers. The keyword, if you are using keywords over and over to make the keyword more prominent in your keyword article will make it difficult for the reader to get past the keyword to read the rest of your keyword rich article and the visitor to your keyword website will quickly tire of reading your keyword article and your awkward keyword placement in that keyword article and will leave for a site without so many keywords or content focusing more on the keyword than on the reader.

Do you see how that could get pretty bad? Believe it or not, there are many websites that have just this … and if you find yourself on one, click away because you can rest assured there is nothing else of any value. Your website content should focus on the keywords but not to such an extent that you are losing website traffic only to have it replaced with search engine spiders and bots. Spiders and bots will not spend money on your website where people will … but only if they can read your content.

While there really are many different On-Site SEO Solutions to help the ranking of your website and your page, these two simple steps will give you a fairly good idea of just how much you can do to optimize your web page to increase organic placement on the SERP. If you are not comfortable implementing changes or even rewriting website code, you may want to hire an SEO professional to provide you with more complete On-Site SEO Solutions.

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