On Page SEO Tips

When people hear the words "on page seo" some think that this means something complicated, tricky or expensive. On the contrary setting up a website with the correct on page attributes and information to make your website look like a juicy steak to the search engines is not so bad at all. That is of course, if you know the rules that search engines use to valuate a site and decide if it is relevant in any given topic or niche and more importantly with your targeted keyword set.

There are many external factors that are very important in gaining search engine popularity, but if you are striving for a huge online presence you need to start at the beginning, your website. Optimizing on page content is rather straight forward and can be a lot easier to do than many believe. If you start with a solid on page seo effort everything else will indeed fall into place much easer. So lets get started and start optimizing our on page content to make our search engine optimization path much easier!

When you see the steps laid out for you like they are below, getting your website up to snuff and optimized for seo in no time at all. If you have any questions or comments about the information shared here, please feel free to conact me or use the comments form at the bottom of the page.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

Among all the different areas of interest when it comes to on page seo, the title tag on a page is one of the most important. Not only is this tag displayed to your visitors on the title bar of their web browser, but this is also used and displayed in Google search results. The title of your posts on blogs or pages on a website are very important and should always be keyword rich and also an accurate description of the content to follow. The relationship between the title and the rest of the information shared on the page is important to creating "relevancy" to search engines.

Choosing titles that are "interesting" and include valid key words can really boost your contents readability and help the search engines understand what your pages should be getting found for in results pages.  Taking time to find hot button keywords and refining your content to compliment your title is a great way to get the most out of each piece of content you create.

The <H1> and <H2> tags are used to make text larger and more emphasized on page.  These same tags are taken into consideration by the search engines to find the most important text on page. These tags should only be used correctly and sparingly.  You should never stuff keywords or over use these tags in attempt to gain a better on page score.  The top search engines are only looking for natural and logical hierarchies and if you attempt to trick the search engines, you will most likely only hurt your page ranking.

If you use popular CMS (Content Management System) apps like Wordpress, the title of each post is almost always automatically wrapped with a <H2> tag so you don't have to worry about adding this and the <H1> is normally used for the title of the page in the header block. This is one major advantage of using Wordpress or other similar CMS scripts, because part of the work is done automatically for you.

If you are writing for the search engines, you are missing the point.  In the past search engines were easily tricked and yes, you could stuff keywords all over and your page would get picked up eventually. However, "times they are a changin" and if you want the top search engines to really take notice to what you are writing, make sure that you are writing for the reader.  If you keep the reader in mind when you write content for your website the flow of information will come out just find and your keywords will surely find their way in there too.

After all, what use is a page that every other word is "make money" or "iPhone" really?  If you are going to plan on the readers taking action, like buying something or joining your newsletter you need natural flowing content that speaks to them.  Even if you get a lot of visitors, if the content is crap when they get to your site, this is simply unacceptable. You really do want to sprinkle keywords as you write, but 2%-3% keyword density is plenty to get the results you are after.  The only thing to keep in mind if you have a large article or body of content is that google views your page in 3 sections: Top | Middle | Bottom so you will want to make sure that you are putting something in each that has to do with the same topic.

New: recently Google has taken into consideration "slang" terms in niche. Don't feel like you always have to use proper English any more.  If you are talking about baseball, poker or any other topic that their are words that are not in the dictionary, but are commonly used, feel free to do so without penalization!