Simple Ways to Make Sure Your Site Is SEO Ready

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How do you Search Engine Optimization (SEO) a website to improve your search and page rank? That is one of the most asked questions by companies and web designers on forums and blog sites. Even when a business asks a designer or developer to create a website, they are specifically asking for a Search Engine Optimized Site, knowing that this fine-tuning is needed to give the site a chance at reaching the top on Google or other search engines.

Listed below are ten simple ways to SEO your site or blog that will have an immediate improvement to search engines.

  • Rule Zero: Do Not Cheat Google, they will find out.
  • Rule One: Stick to Your Keywords
  • Rule Two: Content is King
  • Rule Three: Clean Code is Searchable Code
  • Rule Four: The Home Page is the Most Important Page
  • Rule Five: Links Have Meaning
  • Rule Six: Title Tags for the Win
  • Rule Seven: Alt Tags Matter
  • Rule Eight: Ignore Most Meta Tags
  • Rule Nine: Have a Site Map
  • Rule Ten: Design for Humans

Visit this link for more details on the above tips!

For further reading I recommend this SEO Guide for Designers.

Do you have any SEO tips you want to share? Please leave a comment.

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