- Be sure your address and a list of cities you serve is listed at the bottom of your page. Search Engines will look on your home page first to see where you are located. Make it easy for them to find where you are located so they can report back to potential clients searching for you by location. Check out http://www.tcsidingprofessionals.com/ for a sample.
- Be sure to sign up for Google Maps/Local and Yahoo Local. These are free directories that allow you to be listed at the top of the organic rankings for the city that you service.
- Create a Blog. Blogs are very effective in creating trust and driving search engines to your website.
- Make sure you have a Site Map on your page. Sitemaps, as the name implies, are just a map of your site – i.e. on one single page you show the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc.
- You can improve the rankings of your website by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to it.
- May sure your site has been submitted to Google, Yahoo, MSN and other popular search engines.
- Be sure your Meta Data is keyword optimized and page specific for your primary pages. If you wish to be on the first page of the search results, you must include your keywords in your Title tag and these keywords must be in the content of that page.
- Nomenclatures: Whenever possible, you should save your images, media, and web pages with the keywords in the file names. Also all images must be assigned alternative text descriptions called Alt Tags so they will become visible to search engines. Without Alt Tags your images are invisible.
- It would be a waste of your time to optimize your website for keywords that are not even being searched for. Therefore you should invest some energy into finding the best keywords. There are several SEO tools available on the Internet to help you find the best keywords.
- By far the easiest of our top 10 SEO tips you will ever do as it relates to search engine optimization is include a robots.txt file at the root of your website.
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