Adding a Site Map to your site is one of the easiest and quickest things that you can do to your website in order to help improve it’s SEO, and your visibility with the Search Engines. Reduced down to its simplest form, a sitemap is just a list of URLs. For something so completely basic, it’s incredible how important sitemaps can be when it comes to successful SEO.
Tag Archives: Essentials
SEO Keyword Placement – As Important As The Words Themselves
When writing content for a website, simply having the right keywords in large-enough volumes on the page isn’t enough. Although a good keyword volume will certainly help, there is much more that you can do to send your page ranking higher. In many cases, it can be something as simple as where you place your keywords that propels you from page two of the results up to page one. Bear in mind that no-one knows search logarithms like the search engine creators, so following some advice that comes from them will always help.
Heavenly SEO Practices: Quality Content
One of the major mistakes made by newcomers to the internet marketing world is to assume ‘content’ means nothing more than ‘keyword stuffed text’. Yet something that is continually overlooked is the importance of quality content, rather than just a load of text with a few keywords thrown in.
Quality content is determined as something that provides something to the reader. That ‘something’ might be news articles, it might be information, it might be help guides; basically, Quality Content is anything that leaves the reader more informed than they were prior to reading the content. And quality content, as the saying goes, is King.
Heavenly SEO Practices: Unique Content
The concept of unique content is inextricably linked to the issue of duplicate content. Duplicate content, even the most inexperienced of internet marketers will know, is a big no-no – even if the exact rules (and what qualifies as duplicate content) are a little blurred. Yet everyone knows that duplicate content is to be avoided if at all possible, so the phrase ‘unique content’ gets bandied about as the savior
