Saturday, July 11, 2009

Step By Step Guide to Optimizing Your Website

When you become an affiliate marketer, you want to have a website that will be visible to as many people as possible. This will make or break your success in selling the products you promote on your page. One of the best ways to get your website noticed is ensuring your site is search engine optimized (SEO).

"When creating the URL of your website and web pages, be sure to use these keywords. You want your site's URL easy to remember as well as attractive to search engine robots."

Customizing your Website for SEO

The first thing you must do is find out popular keywords relevant to your products. You can use an online keyword tool or program, which will display all relevant keywords on your topic and how many people have searched for it. Take the first few keywords to focus on in customizing your website.

When creating the URL of your website and web pages, be sure to use these keywords. You want your site's URL easy to remember as well as attractive to search engine robots.

For every page you have on your website, you should use a keyword in the page title. These page titles are the first thing SEO spiders look for and will display them on the search engine results page.

Meta descriptions for your page are exclusively for search engines. This script, which is invisible to visitors to your site, will include your primary keyword and relevant keywords in a description about your site. Make sure not to include a keyword more than three times in the description or it will not be used.

Whenever you have a description or article on your site, be sure to include a list of Meta tags or keywords at the end.

Many people who have simple websites do not believe they need a sitemap. However, sitemaps are not only for navigation purposes for your site, it is also for the search engine spider. A sitemap will guide it through your site so it picks up as much information as possible.

SEO Content for Your Website

Search engines want fresh content, so it is imperative you update your site regularly with articles or a blog. When you place articles on your site or blog, make sure to incorporate relevant keywords to your products in them. Subheadings with keywords are also important. It is also important to include links to other pages on your website in your blog and articles. Finally, add images with ALT text that include keywords.

Following these steps will make your website attractive to the all mighty search engine spider cache. It may take some time before your website receives a page rank, but with time and marketing efforts, you will see your traffic increase and so will your revenue.


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