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re: Do we have any SEO guys in here?
Posted on 11/17/16 at 10:08 am to I Love Bama
Posted on 11/17/16 at 10:08 am to I Love Bama
I'm sure there are a lot of "tricks" that I don't know about, but the basics of SEO are to have quality, regularly-updated content, do some "word-of-mouth" via the internet to try to get some quality backlinks, and then wait. It can take a long time to place well in the organic results.
Short-term you need to place some google ads. They work, and if your content is good this will result in backlinks that will boost your organic results.
And whatever you do, don't try to game the system by posting spam links to your site on random message boards, or things like that. Your site will likely get buried.
Also, did you build the site yourself? It helps if your content is structured well, if certain tags are used (such as alt tags on images for screen readers), and also load times are becoming more of a factor, I think. You may need to pay for professional help with this.
Short-term you need to place some google ads. They work, and if your content is good this will result in backlinks that will boost your organic results.
And whatever you do, don't try to game the system by posting spam links to your site on random message boards, or things like that. Your site will likely get buried.
Also, did you build the site yourself? It helps if your content is structured well, if certain tags are used (such as alt tags on images for screen readers), and also load times are becoming more of a factor, I think. You may need to pay for professional help with this.
Posted on 11/17/16 at 10:52 am to Korkstand
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And whatever you do, don't try to game the system by posting spam links to your site on random message boards, or things like that. Your site will likely get buried.
If you are trying to do it yourself, read up on white hat vs black hat and stay away from black hat techniques.
Posted on 11/18/16 at 2:00 pm to Korkstand
quote:Exactly.
It helps if your content is structured well, if certain tags are used (such as alt tags on images for screen readers), and also load times are becoming more of a factor
You want your alt text to describe the image, but you also want to work in a keyword or two as well (but do it naturally, don't force it).
Make sure your keywords and phrases show up on your pages, but don't just keyword load. Make them appear in a naturally flowing organic text piece.
Be sure that all headings are nested properly(1 h1, then one or two h2s under that, then h3s under that, etc.)
Make sure the site is mobile friendly. If you can build it as responsive design, do it. Google is starting to indicate which sites are mobile friendly. I don't think that it really helps your ranking, but it is a good thing to have on the search result.
Use a site crawler (Screaming Frog is a good one) to index your site for page titles and meta tags. Page titles and the meta tagging areas (especially the description meta tag) have certain preferred lengths.
You can also use Google Search Console to see what searches are bringing the most people to your site. You can then tailor your meta tags and keywords to those keywords.
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