What are the 5 biggest changes I can make to my site to improve Search Engine Optimizaiton?

Question

Please provide any links to any recommended SEO resources. Thank you.

Answer 1

The things that rank your sight higher in search engines:

1. how much traffic you get
2. How relevant is your page title and domain name to the search keywords
3. quality links from other sites that are related to your site and have a lot of traffic and high search engine rank
4. Your site is healthy and good quality: all the links work, and there is a lot of text that is related to the navigation
5. meta tags and keywords

Answer 2

1. Add more and better content.

"Content is king, copious textual information rules." (-ibid)

2. Research is the most critical up-front key to success.

Competition
Audience
Value of Keywords and Phrases
Current Status
Reasonable Goals
Reasonable Time Frame Expectations.

3. Write clear titles related to page content and containing key phrases used in the page content

4. Avoid fads and "tip of the day" techniques. Also avoid old, worn-out ticks such as cloaking, hidden links, hidden text, sneaky redirects, duplicate content, multiple identical sites, link farms, links to bad neighborhoods, etc.

5. Changes to site design, page design, and navigation to reduce page size, reduce image size, and to improve the ability of the search engine robots and users to navigate and use your site.

There are lots of trade offs to make. Fifty words of black text on a white background works for search engines but will not sell anything. The best page for selling products will never get a single visitor from the search engines. Somewhere in between is the perfect page which gets lots of visitors and sells the product, provides the information, compels the visitor to return, and so forth. (-ibid.)

Answer 3

The top five thinks you need to do is...

* Make sure each of your pages are optimized for their own keyterms.
* Make sure yout title and meta tags supposrt those keywords. ( avoid using the same tags, they will place you in the supplemental)
* Have a good internal link stucture
* Have links with anchor text from other sites help boost indivdual pages keyterms.
* Create each page like you would a landing page for PPC. This will help convert traffic into sales or leads.

Answer 4

make sure you have good metatags, the search engines will pick them up with in the month.