Optimizing for Google

February 10th, 2010 by Ryan Lindstrom Leave a reply »

When you build your business website, you want to draw customers in. You can do this through search engine optimization. Some of the items that you can keep track of are overall traffic, number of visits, customers, and search engine rankings. By paying attention to these numbers, you can find out what works and what doesn’t as you tweak your site.

With SEO optimization, a web developer can use a wide variety of tools to help increase traffic and popularity to his website, a help to any business application. The general concepts categorized into the Search Engine Optimization include, among other things, keyword densities, topic relevance, meta tags, script coding, domain names, back linking, search engine submissions, advertising and much more.

So what is keyword density, anyway? Keyword density uses a specific percentage of words that are relevant to the overall topic of your website. For example, if you were looking for a website about optimization, you would want to use “search engine optimization” as a keyword. This allows web crawlers to find your website and narrow down what it is all about, based on the most commonly used keyword densities in your content. However, be careful! Using the keyword too frequently can get it labeled as spam, keeping visitors away.

How can you increase the likelihood of someone who would be interested in your site actually finding it? By proper use of topic relevance. The search engine will rate your site based on the relevance to the topic being searched. If your site were about frogs, but had more topics concerning woodpeckers, you are less likely to draw visitors in who are interested in frogs, than if you had more articles and content dealing with frogs.

Through headers in professional scripting, you can insert meta tags, basically keywords for your dense content in your website. It is best to do this manually. Although there are script alterations available to automatically put meta tags into the script for you based on densities, it is unwise to do so unless you are very sure of what you are doing.

Although Juliet thought a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, you want to make sure your domain name isn’t any old thing. If you were going to create a site on roses, you would be unlikely to get many hits with the site domain DirtySocks. Keeping the domain name either relevant to the topic, or a business name is much better web sense. And, ideally, you would also be either dot com or dot net – the leading ranks in Google.

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