Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Strategies

Search Engine Optimization is a widely overlooked website strategy for many companies, groups and individuals. Attracting potential customers, recruits, and news media to your website and ensuring that, once there, they will find the content engaging and relevant, is a crucial strategy for ongoing success.

Most business strategies are based on ROI (Return on Investment) and measurable results. Therefore, we must have the ability to record our client's target market activities, preferences, and purchasing habits. Here is a sampling of The Top 10 SEO Strategies for 2009:

1) KEYWORDS - Finding the Balance between Relevance and Popularity

Keywords are search terms used to find websites, and keyword research is inordinately time-consuming.

* Brainstorm with your team(s) to develop an active list of possibilities
* Research online services to confirm or upgrade your selections
* Websites include: Wordtracker, Google Keyword Tool, Google Webmaster, etc.
* Peruse your competitors' websites to find their keywords

2) Hot Titles - Enticing More Readers

Attract readers, prospective visitors, and search tools with "unique" or "enticing" titles on all your website pages.

3) Visual Appeal - Creating Image-based Communications

Search engines like visually attractive and appealing websites. Visitors are also drawn more to modern and visually engaging websites, which would also lead them to spread the word about the website.

4) Content and Meta Descriptions - Selecting Quality vs Quantity

Quality of the website content surpasses the quantity of information.
As Meta Descriptions are limited in the size of their descriptions, ensure they are well written and customized for each page.

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By: Garrett Chong

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