Best SEO practices in less than 5 minutes for beginners
Have you ever wondered on how your page is reached through the search engines?
or What do people write to find your website?
Successful websites are not that focus on branding and capturing web design only and invest lots in appearance. However, recent studies have confirmed that visitors prefer interactive experience and most they love websites that presents their desired content in an easy way to find what they are looking for. Unless you have good quality content, your page risks not to rank.
Before we proceed with further description and details, here are some tips that will help you understand more about how to effectively use your search optimization.
If you cannot hire a professional to promote your website’s SEO, here some tips that will help you understand more effectively SEO practices:
- Links
- Titles
- Content
- Meta description and Headlines
- Mobile
- Blogging
Links
Links or page URLs is the first thing that appears for search engines before visitors do. Having relevant and accurate descriptive links is the only thing that makes Google or other search engines bring you the right type of visitors not just on a random basis.
Title tags
Short, accurate, relevant phrases work best as a page title. A keyword that concisely describe your content will guide visitors to more likely chose your page over others.
Another important point is that your page must not be loaded with title tags and keywords as this will not help people find you but rather you be sanctioned by Google’s over-optimization penalty. Building a good on-page search optimization elements help you to gain effort, time, and money.
Content
Search Engine Optimization or in short SEO is crucial to any website and everyone is of course interested that their website will be available on the first page of search in Google or other search motors or to find your efforts are shown in the golden triangle of Google (the first three suggestions on google search engine) as most people find best what they are looking for in the first page of search.
What makes people visit social media websites on daily basis?
The secret is that they can access abundant of content easily. The key to strike two birds with one stone is to focus on logical quantity and good quality content by which you can satisfy both search engines and visitors.
Quality content can be displayed in forms of:
- Blog posts.
- Tutorials and How to guides.
- News updates.
- Google+ social network.
- Republish old content to keep it fresh.
Taking for example Qlink software, not even one will type the exact words in the search engines unless people want to get ample of information about the company. From another perspective people might find the page by looking for “best Law firm software”, “branding and design in Qatar”, or “school administration management system”, “social media management” and other keywords far from the name of the company.
Meta description and Headlines
Here is your chance, here where you can put first impression. Giving more time to make the best, ultimate or perfect short description will push people to click on your website or not.
Before people can reach your page, google knows what your website is about just from your headlines so try to make them more appealing.
Your article may be long but try to include some of the main keywords in the beginning.
Appealing eye-catching headlines
High ranking website most likely introduce “What, How, When, Where, Who” or words like “best web development…, ultimate branding techniques…, review of social media management…” or some weird phrases most common and spread that really makes the buzz.
Mobile
The switch from desktop to mobile versions is increasing in high speed and thus Google has started indexing mobile SEO. So the need to build a mobile-friendly version of your website shall be one of your top priorities.
Blogging
Blog posts or blogging is a great method to keep your visitors and potential customers informed about what they need to know. You can bring more traffic to your website by sharing your blog posts via email or social media.
Finally, another good method is to update and republish old posts to keep them fresh. Learn, apply what you have learned, repeat, and invest more time and less money.
Never forget; “if you don’t succeed at first, try, try and try again”.
