5 Simple SEO Tips For Beginners

Content Is King
This statement is banded about time and time again. This is for good reason, as search engines become more and more efficient at bringing the most relevant and resourceful web pages to the top of the SERPS it is becoming increasingly important to produce content for your websites that offer quality to readers. Also, by producing quality content from the start you’ll have a better chance of gaining links to your website naturally, as your reputation for producing high quality and relevant content within your niche increases other webmasters will be eager to link to you.

Stay On Topic
This is so important and a mistake made by many webmasters and especially bloggers. Take your time before you start your website to plan exactly what topic your website will be focused on. When you start writing articles for your website try and stay as on topic as possible. You don’t need to have tunnel vision but try to make sure that each article can at least be somewhat related to the main theme of your website.

On-Site Optimization
Optimizing your website is important but you need to take great care not to over do it. Keep things as simple as possible. Use relevant keywords in your page title and header tags. You will also need to use the keywords that your targeting within the body of your articles but don’t over do it or else your pages could get penalized for keyword stuffing. Adding your most important keyword or keyphrase in the first and last paragraph is in general all you need. Sprinkle various synonyms and related phrases or keywords through the rest of the article to ensure the search engines categorize your web pages correctly.

Off-Site Optimization
This generally covers link building and you’ll need to tackle this with care as over promoting your site can result in penalization by the search engines. They want websites who are building links naturally and will reward those that seem to be following their guidelines. There are many methods you can use to build link popularity such as web directory submissions and article marketing, just make sure to vary your anchor link text and try to be consistent with the number of links your obtaining as this will make your link building efforts look much more natural.

Check Out The Competition.
Keeping track of what your competition is up to in your chosen niche is a very worthwhile exercise. Take time to study them, if they are on top of the search results for the keywords your targeting you will want to know why. This can help you formulate a plan to help you compete with them, whatever they are doing good, you need to discover it and do it even better.