9 Traffic Boosting SEO Tips To Do Now

The first month of 2010 flew by and the rest of the year is going to do the same. Before it does how much time will you dedicate to your search engine optimisation strategies? Well why not make some changes right now, yep today!

Here are 9 Traffic Boosting SEO Tips To Do Now

1. Structure your Title Tag – Put your brand/company name at the end of your title tags. The important phrases for search rankings should be at the front of your tags because search engines place more weight on the phrases at the start. Eg, I want this website to rank for Mt Tamborine Accommodation & Mount Tamborine Accommodation so my title tag will start with – Mt Tamborine Accommodation | Mount Tamborine Accommodation
2. Build Links – A quick way to build a few links to your website is to submit your site to authority directories, Eg, BOTW.org, Demoz.org (can take a long time), Hotfrog.com.au etc
3. No Follow or Consolidate Links – The chances are you have a “Terms & Conditions” and/or “Privacy Policy” or similar pages on your website and there is most likely a link from every page within your site to these pages, eg, from the footer. Placing a No Follow tag (rel=”nofollow”) on the link or consolidating them into one page will help reduce the authority each page is leaking from your more important pages.
4. Internal Linking – Linking to the important pages within in your site with the correct anchor text will help search engines determine the important pages within your website. Make sure you link to the correct address, eg, when linking to the home page you should link to www.sixthsensemarketing.com.au/ not www.yousite.com.au/index.html or some other funky combination.
5. Add Title & Alt Attributes – Make sure every product image, logo, navigation button and link has clear, descriptive ALT and/or Title text so search engines know what is going on.
6. Domain Trust – Search engines consider domain life (expiration date) of your domain as part of their ranking algorithm, if your site expires in 1 year you may not have the trust value of a domain that expires in 10. Go extend your domain life and rank higher!
7. Download Link Sluth – A cool tool that can do a few things that are very handy for SEO. Find any broken links within your site or have it crawl your site and create a sitemap to sumbit to search engines.
8. Use Yahoo Site Explorer – https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ – Create yourself an account and submit register your website with Yahoo. Submit your site maps and rss feeds to help Yahoo find pages within your site.
9. Use Google Webmaster Tools - http://www.google.com/webmasters/ – Look at Diagnostics > HTML Suggestion – To help fix any duplicate title or meta description issues that search engines love to index. Also look at Crawl Errors > Not Found – To help find any broken links from sites or pages that have been removed and their incoming links. Now set up a server 301 redirect to the right/alternative page. This will now boost your link authority to current pages.

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