SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

After finishing locate of your audience you can move the next step.

Search engines are one of the major and best ways toget traffic to a website. You can get tens of visitors tomillions of visitors daily from search engines depending on your niche, the type of competition and the authority of  your website.Here are some basic search engine optimization techniques to help your website rank.

1.On page optimization: This is the process of optimizing your website for the search engines,depending on the type of content management system(CMS) or platform you use for your website. For those using wordpress, the “all in one SEO” plugin will go along way to help you achieve better search engine rankings.

Using Meta tags can help you in SEO, Metatags are tags that only search engines see but it is not physically displayed on your website.

i. The Meta title: This is the title of your website.

ii. The Meta description: This is the description people will see when searching for your website in search engines.

2. Off page Optimization: Off page optimization is what you do to help your site rank on other websites outside your own website. It involves link building and social bookmarking.

You can go to forums, be agood contributor and then link to important and related articles on your website. Just try doing a Google search for “your niche forum” to come with a forum relevant to your niche e.g. “make money onlineforum” e.t.c.

You can also use social bookmarking sites such as http://www.digg.com ,http://www.reddit.com and http://www.stumbleupon.com to bookmark your websites so that search engines index them quickly.

You can also submit your website to http://www.google.com/addurl in order to add yoursite to Google. Note that this doesn’t guarantee your site being listed in Google, the external links pointing to your site from forums and social bookmarking sites will be what will help Google and other search engines index your website.

Source:”7keys to build better website”.