As a beginner in SEO, you need to understand that Search Engine Optimization is not as hard as many people believe. Basic SEO settings are very easy to implement and sometimes this is all you need to rank higher for the keywords that matter for your website.
Here are some simple SEO tips you can start using to improve your Google rankings.
15 Essential SEO Tips For Beginners
- Write Helpful Content To Match the Search Intent
- Target Easy To Rank Keywords
- Use A Hierarchical Heading Structure
- Optimize Titles And Meta Tags
- Use Short, SEO Friendly URLs
- Get Backlinks From High-Authority Websites
- Add Internal Links To Your Content
- Optimize Speed And Page Experience
- Format Content For Featured Snippets and Other SERP Features
- Keep Your Content Fresh And Relevant
- Optimize Your Images
- Build Topical Authority With Content Hubs
- Create An XML Sitemap And A User Sitemap
- Add Breadcrumbs
- Use Google Search Console
1. Write Helpful Content To Match the Search Intent
One of the easy SEO tips to use is to prioritize creating high-quality content that matches the search intent over other SEO tactics.
When working with SEO, it’s easy to lose track of the primary goal of each piece of content you publish, which is to create people-first content and not content for search engines.
You should take a closer look at your content to ensure that:
- It answers the user query as high in the content as possible.
- It has the expected format. For example, if the user is looking for comparison data, you should include tables, graphs, and other elements to help users compare products or services.
- It shows clearly who wrote the content and when it was last updated.
- It includes keywords and phrases a user will likely use when searching for a particular topic.
To check that your content is relevant to the user’s needs, you can review the top-ranking pages for a given search term.
This does not mean making your content the same as what is already available. You need to make your content different, better and give users another perspective without missing critical information.
2. Target Easy To Rank Keywords
Another SEO tip related to content is targeting easy-to-rank keywords. This concept is simple: do your keyword research to find what keywords people use when searching for topics related to your brand, products, and services.
Pick a primary keyword per page with a low difficulty score and use secondary keywords to make your content relevant to the user’s query.
Long-tail keywords are generally easier to rank because they have less competition than head (or primary keywords).
When writing your content, ensure that you use your primary keyword in prominent places (page title, URL, headings) and that you use variations of that keyword in your content.
To find the variations, you can look at the “People Also Ask” section in Google Search Results or use an AI tool to help you find related keywords and phrases that people use.
3. Use A Hierarchical Heading Structure
When creating content, simplify your page structure by giving special attention to page headings. This is fundamental SEO advice, but it is still important.
Ensure that the top heading is H1 and subsequent headings are H2 or H3. Use different font sizes to make these headings stand out from the rest of the text.
In addition, ensure that the text in the headings is informative, relevant to the content, and compact.
Don’t just publish pieces of text on your website without first doing some basic formatting. This is bad for the user experience and works against your SEO efforts.
General guidelines for formatting a post or page on your website:
- Use BOLD and Italics to draw users’ attention
- Don’t use H2 tags for all your headings
- Write small paragraphs
- Use a font size that is easy to read
When formatting your posts, always keep the user experience in mind. Can the user identify the main sections of your post (H2 tags) just by looking at the page? Is the text easy to read on all devices (Mobiles, Tables, etc)?
4. Optimize Titles And Meta Tags
Optimizing page titles is an essential aspect of Google SEO and should be the first item in your SEO tasks list.
When creating your titles, follow these tips:
- Each page needs to have a unique page title.
- The title should accurately describe the page’s content.
- It should be brief and descriptive.
- It should help the user understand what the page is about.
- Include your target keyword or a closed variation.
The page meta description tag gives users and search engines a summary of what the page is about. Google may show a part of the page content instead of your custom description. Nevertheless, you should follow these guidelines when crafting your descriptions:
- Always provide a unique description for all your website’s pages, posts, and products.
- Keep the meta description length between 160-180 characters.
- Avoid repeating the title in the description.
- Don’t add too many keywords.
- Try to use the description to ‘advertise’ your page to the reader so that they click on your search snippet and visit the page.
5. Use Short, SEO Friendly URLs
The page URL is shown in the browser address bar and the search results (below the page title). Optimizing your URL structure is one of the on-page SEO tasks that can help Google understand your site’s content better.
Use these guidelines for creating SEO-Friendly URLs:
- Make URLs simple and easy to understand for search engines and users.
- Use hyphens ‘ – ‘ to separate the words that make up a URL.
- Avoid lengthy URLs with unnecessary information.
- Use your target keywords in the URL.
6. Get Backlinks From High-Authority Websites
Getting backlinks from other high-authority websites is a critical SEO ranking factor. It’s one of the off-page SEO techniques you can use to influence your Google rankings.
From experience, link building is a difficult concept for beginners. To help you implement it, follow these tips:
- Publish great content on your website that will naturally attract links. Examples include case studies, industry statistics, and original research.
- Put your content in front of other webmasters who may potentially link to your website (Facebook and other social media channels are great promotion tools for this purpose).
- Link to other websites and let other webmasters know. If they like your website, they may return the favor.
- Publish content on other websites and add links pointing to your pages (also known as guest posting).
When getting links for SEO purposes, ensure that:
- You get links from high-quality websites only.
- Links are coming from websites with a higher domain authority.
- Websites that link to you are related to your niche, not any website.
- Built your link profile gradually (sudden changes to the number of backlinks may raise some warning signals in the ranking algorithm).
- Ensure you understand the difference between a ‘follow’ and a ‘nofollow‘ link.
- Read Google’s guidelines on link building.
7. Add Internal Links To Your Content
Internal links are links on a page that point to other pages within your website i.e. not external links. Good internal linking practices can improve your SEO and make your website more accessible to users and search engine crawlers.
The rules to follow for internal links are simple:
- Link related articles together either by using keyword anchor text or by using the full article title.
- Ensure that the links are helpful for the user and easy to understand by search engines.
- Don’t make links for search engines only. An internal link should help the user navigate the site better.
- Do not use ‘click here’ or ‘[..]’ for internal linking.
- Don’t overdo it. A few internal links per page are enough.
- Don’t always link old posts from new posts, but go back and link more recent posts from older posts.
- The most important pages on your site should have the greatest number of internal links.
8. Optimize Speed And Page Experience
Page speed is a known ranking factor. Your website should load on desktop and mobile in less than 2.5 seconds and pass the core web vitals test.
Improving your core web vitals test and page load time is part of technical SEO. To start, go to Page Speed Insights to analyze your website and get performance recommendations.
Usually, what it takes to get to the desired core web vitals scores is to:
- Remove any unnecessary plug-ins or javascript from your pages.
- Optimize the size of your images.
- Use a caching service or plug-in.
- If you have a lot of images on your site, consider using a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
Besides core web vitals, One of the newest Google ranking factors is page experience. This relates to how content is presented on the page and whether users can find what they want in the fastest way without unnecessary disruptions.
To optimize your pages for the page experience, use the following SEO tips:
- The content is served over a secure connection.
- The user’s experience on mobile is the best possible.
- No intrusive interstitials are popping up.
- The main content of the page is easily distinguishable from ads.
- The content is visually appealing to the users and easy to read.
9. Format Content For Featured Snippets and Other SERP Features
A featured snippet is shown on top of the results (aka position “0”) and provides a direct answer to a user’s query.
Here is an example:
Although it’s up to Google to decide which pages will appear as featured snippets, you can do a few things to increase your chances of getting to the top and taking advantage of the higher click-through rate (CTR).
- The most important tip for you is to summarize the answer to a question (or query) in one paragraph.
- Look for Google’s ‘People Also Ask’ section and find questions you can answer directly in a couple of lines.
- Start your answer by directly answering the question and avoid fluff. Keep your answer short and to the point.
- Ensure that you use the appropriate headings in the article.
Here is another example:
Optimize for Multiple SERP Features
SERP features are anything else besides the traditional 10-blue links that appear in Google results. The most commonly used are:
Sitelinks appear when you search for a domain name on Google. Google algorithm shows links to help users quickly find the information they’re looking for.
Here is an example when you search for reliablesoft:
Although there is no way to define which links should be shown as sitelinks, there are a number of ways to influence the algorithm’s decisions.
This is particularly useful when you want to direct users searching for your domain name on Google to your most important pages.
If you take a closer look at the example above, you’ll notice that Google correctly listed the pages we want to promote more which includes our Digital Marketing Course, SEO Course, and Digital Marketing Academy.
To configure sitelinks for your website, follow these best practices.
- Create a simple and logical site structure – add important pages to your top menu and footer.
- Link important pages from your homepage – make sure to use text links and not images.
- Add internal links to your important pages from other relevant pages.
- Optimize your internal link’s anchor text – use text that describes what the page is about.
- Optimize your page titles and headings to be informative, relevant, and compact.
Another SERP feature you can use to optimize your content is a rich results snippet. Rich results are used for many types, including articles, events, how-to guides, images, local businesses, and more.
They are more visual, especially on mobile devices. Here is an example:
You can add structured data to your page to increase your chances of appearing as a rich result. Structured data is code that describes the page’s content to search engine crawlers.
Here is the process to follow:
- Find the relevant structured data – go through the supported types and choose which is relevant to your page’s content.
- Add the code to your website – code needs to be added to the <body> of the page. Depending on your CMS, you can add it manually or use a third-party plugin.
- Test your code with Rich Results Test to ensure no errors.
10. Keep Your Content Fresh And Relevant
What is even harder than achieving top rankings for your target keywords is maintaining these rankings for a long time.
Follow these tips, to maximize your chances of maintaining your Google rankings:
- Ensure that you regularly update your top-ranking pages by adding new information and removing no longer valid content.
- Ensure the last updated date is visible on your web pages and XML sitemap.
- Keep an eye on new SERP features and adjust your content accordingly.
- Perform regular content audits to remove, merge, or update pages that are no longer relevant.
11. Optimize Your Images
Google is using images to make the SERPS more visual. They are shown in rich snippets and other Google products, including Google Discover. To take advantage of images for SEO purposes and make your content more appealing to users, follow these guidelines:
- Always add a large featured image to your pages. The minimum width of your image must be at least 1200px wide.
- Add the relevant structured data to specify the featured image to Google.
- Use meaningful image filenames.
- Provide an alt text for all your images. Alt text is the most critical SEO image SEO factor. Make sure you write descriptive text that makes sense for users and search engines.
- Optimize images for speed – Use Google’s Squoosh app to convert your images to webp. This will dramatically reduce their file size without losing quality.
- Set the max-image-preview:large robots meta tag – The max-image-preview is a directive instructing search engines to show large image previews of an image in Google search results, Google Image, Google Assistant, Google SGE, and other products.
12. Build Topical Authority With Content Hubs
Topical Authority is an effective SEO strategy that can help you rank for highly competitive keywords.
Here is a simple overview of how this works.
While Google algorithms evaluate the content of each individual page to decide for which keywords it should rank, they also look at the content of a site as a whole.
When you provide comprehensive, in-depth content around a specific topic, this makes you an authority around that topic, and as a result, you can rank higher for related to the topic keywords.
The best way to build topical authority is by using content hubs.
A content hub is a page that includes information about a specific topic and links to other articles (on the same website) to help users learn everything they need to know about that topic.
Think of a content hub as a portal dedicated to a specific topic. Content hubs can have different forms depending on the topic and type of content.
This means doing keyword research to identify what topics/subtopics the content hub should target.
Then you create the content and interlink the pages together as shown in the above diagram.
13. Create An XML Sitemap And A User Sitemap
A sitemap is a list of all posts/pages of your website. You need 2 types of sitemaps. An XML sitemap to submit to Google, and second an HTML sitemap to help visitors find your content easier.
It is recommended to place a link to your user sitemap from the main menu.
XML Sitemap (for search engines)
Depending on your blogging platform you can use plugins to create and update your website’s sitemap. When viewed in the browser it looks like this:
User Sitemap
The user sitemap is a page on your website that provides links to all (or to the most essential pages of your site). It can also group posts by author, date, category, etc. Its purpose is to help users find information on your site easier and quicker.
14. Add Breadcrumbs
Make sure that you have a breadcrumb trail on all your pages. A breadcrumb is a set of links at the top of the page that aid navigation.
A breadcrumb is also shown in the search results, making your snippets more relevant to the user’s query.
15. Use Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a free tool to check your website’s performance in Google.
Once you go through the registration process and perform some basic configurations, you can start looking at the various reports to get answers to questions like:
- How many pages of your website are in Google’s index?
- What keywords do people use to find your website?
- If any crawl errors impact your Google rankings.
- Spot any opportunities to optimize your content further.
- Find out what kind of content works best for your audience.
Get More SEO Tips
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- SEO Checklist – includes basic and advanced SEO advice.
- SEO Certifications – online courses to learn SEO and get certified.
- What is SEO? – an introductory guide for beginners.
- The Complete SEO Course – the most comprehensive course on SEO to go from novice to an SEO expert.
What about adding keywords in the meta description, aren’t these important?
Adrian, the keywords meta tag is not taken into account by Google or Bing. You can still use it if you want but it wan’t make any difference in terms of SEO.
Is it risky to use keywords in your internal links? You mention to go back and link your new pages from your older pages, how does this helps your rankings?
James Hi, sorry for the late reply, I must have missed your comment.
Moderation is the key here. Google mentioned many times in their documents that internal links should help the users and search engines understand what the page is about. In their examples they always show keyword internal links.
The best advice is to use both keyword and non-keyword internal links within a page. Over-optimizing your pages or web site is not good so keep a balance between the two.
About the other question: Your older pages normally have a higher page rank, correct? So by going back and linking to newer pages it gives them an extra boost.
Hey Alex, your blog explaining about SEO has cleared all my doubts I wish I would have found your blog a long way ago never the less I have learned a lot from the blog. Thank you so much for such an informative blog
Alex, this is great stuff. This is the first time I have seen anyone REALLY explain SEO the way you did. I have been building websites for several years and I have been completely missing out I guess. Whether it be my program I use to build my sites or just ME. I would like to see if I could get some direct help from you on getting my sites really noticed. Please contact me direct at the email listed here. Thank You and please contact me when you can. Thanks
Nick Hi
Thanks a lot for you nice comments. I will contact you right after this comment to discuss how can I help you.
Thanks
Alex.
5 simple tips but it really speaks big. Thanks for sharing these 5 simple beautiful tips for SEO.
Alex, i’m so happy that i found out your blog, and your blog is the best SEO i’ve ever seen on the web. Thanks for the points shared and i look forward to knowing you better, because i really need you to help. Thanks
Asaolu Hi
Thank you for your encouraging words. I hope you will find the rest of my articles useful and help you understand SEO better
Alex
I have seen hell lot of websites these days about internet marketing and seo stuff. But, your site is awesome and this is the best in terms of what you have. The content you publish is right to the point and brings hope for a newbie. I discontinued many websites 2 years back and I am starting a few again. I am daily browsing through a few websites by creating alerts related to seo and stuff like that.
I am glad that I found your website accidentally while browsing through an article related to getting 100,000 visitors through google which is my presnt target. Since that article, I have now read 5 articles in a row on your blog.
Keep the great work flowing in and let people like me get educated and inspired forever. Thanks a ton !
thanks mate, i really hope to see some improvements at my end 🙂
Hi Alex,
Thanks for such a great post about SEO and SEM . Very clear concept and easy to understand. Hope it will help many people
Kind Regards,
Saiful
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SEO is a very important product to market on the internet, nice article very well directed and written for newbie like me
Thank you very much for superb information. i really like your article..
Thank you Alex, it is much helpful to me to improve my website traffic.
The tips were awesome. Keep Posting.
When google started authorship verification process, it created a big buzz and a lot of people claimed that it will have huge impact in terms of ranking. Initially we have seen some effect of authorship verified posts in our different search results but I can hardly see them now in any of my search terms. I am not sure if it is still important.
This post is great! Thank you for the easy explanations and contextualizing it with examples.
I am wondering, because I always hear a lot of SEO experts as they say, that google is always updating its algorithm as far as SEO is concern, my question is, is it still applicable at this present time (2015), those informations that you have shared? I’m really confused, i also want to improve my understanding regarding this SEO. and hopefully someday if possible become expert like you. That is why I read a lot articles and watch videos pertaining to SEO.
Thank you. by the way for the information you have shared…
Hope to hear you soon..
This is a great article. There are so many different websites and blogs out there claiming to know the secrets to SEO but this post is actually very informative and simply written to help someone that is just trying to wrap their head around optimization. Nice job!
Hey There. I found your blog using msn. This is an extremely neatly written article.
I will be sure to bookmark it and return to learn more of
your useful information. Thanks for the post.
I’ll certainly return.
Really useful tips, glad I found your site.
Thanks you
Hi great information for a beginner this article really helped a lot of people .
To the point explained…well written!
Hi Alex;
Excellent Topic, very informative, very applicable, and straight forward
Nice article Alex, some great information here for SEO beginners as well as some veterans. Sometimes it’s nice to get a refresher course on things that you might have been forgetting about lately.
I like the tip about permalink structure especially. It’s actually amazing how many people have a website or blog that has a horrible permalink structure, as far as SEO. That’s one of the easiest things to do to give you a little SEO help.
Anyway, great article, I loved it.
This is very informative tips. these tips help to improve my website ranking. so thank you for sharing this post.
thanks for sharing these tips really working
its helpful and i am going to apply on my site, hope that it will work for me to get traffic, appreciated
That’s a really great article you mentioned everything. these tips will definitely help me a lot.
Quality content is the key too invite the users tto pay a visit the site,
that’s what this site is providing.
Hi there, all is going perfectly here and ofcourse every one is sharing facts, that’s really excellent, keep up writing.
Appreciate your level of detail and excellent tips for SEO. Will share with my contacts.
Helpful info. Fortunate me I found your website unintentionally, and I’m surprised why
this coincidence did not took place in advance! I bookmarked it.
WOW just what I waas searching for. Came here by searching for seo tips
Wow it is interesting to read, great attempt for beginners. I like your blog and way of writing. Keep posting.
Thanks Abhinav, glad you found my SEO tips article useful! Thanks for commenting.
At the risk of repeating what had already been said a million things… Thanks for the post.
Some very good tips here presented in an easy (for a newbie) to understand way.
One sugestion has to do with out of date content (author authentication). It would be a lot more useful if you put the explanation that is out of date _before_ the main details.
Hi Mark
Thanks for your comment. Your suggestion makes sense, thanks a lot.
Alex
Hi,
Thaks alot for this extra-ordinary post, Before reading this post.I am not aware of SEO techiniques.
great tips, thanks!
Hi Alex!
Thanks for your site and blog full of useful tips and information for all levels of SEO builders. As you know and keep saying, SEO content for newbies is a challenge because there are too much information to get and tasks to be accomplished. I understand. Problem is: what about if despite being a newbie, I have found out that my Website provider does not provide any possibility to view or manage the essential SEO factors? From the very first steps you recommended to manage (e.g. permanent link structure, page titles for each page and its description etc…) until more complicated ones, my Website provider (when in its edit mode) does not show me or allow me to change any of these structures! I simply do not find any editing area to manage such important structures. Could you help me please to find out why?
Hi Claudia
By website provider I guess you mean the software you use to develop your website. What software platform are you using? Please give us more details. Also, there is always the option of migrating to an SEO friendly platform like WordPress and solve these kind of issues once and for all.
Thanks
Alex
Hi Alex! Thanks for replying. Yes, by website provider I intended to say the platform where I have built my entire website years ago (IMC) I had provided you with my website address in my previous post). I do not have complains about the quality, speed or content size available on it, and since I was happy with the graphic results I did not really intended to migrate. But I do find strange that a high quality website builder like this displays so few SEO options to be managed. Unless my level of knowledge on SEO structure is so low that it is preventing me from any basic SEO improvement… I do not know. As I said before, I unfortunately did not find the links you mentioned in order to make the right SEO improvements. 🙁
I always spent half an hour to read this webpage’s articles or
reviews all the time along with a cup of coffee.
Interesting article. SEO is very important to have for your companies virtual identity, but I highly recommend that rather then doing it yourself, you seek a professional to do it for you. A professional keeps up to date with the changes of algorithms, and has the professional experience to optimize. A great web designer will provide a professional SEO specialist as an option when building your site.
Hello,
This article is very informative and very useful to all who create a website or blog .SEO is the main important thing to do for website and who read this article and follow these step can get success thanks for sharing..
Thanks Mani, glad you find my SEO tips useful.
Alex
I have read your article. This is a very useful and informative article concerning the SEO. All the confusions once I had, have disappeared after reading your article. Thank you for sharing such kind of article.
Alex, Awesome onpage Seo information. I generally make my own sitemaps and place them in robot.txt so that google and other search engines can crawl my site properly.
People who use wordpress with yoast seo and other seo should also create their own sitemaps and decide how the website should be crawled. You will get many tutorials how to make your html sitemaps on youtube or google.
DO not buy traffic or backlinks for your website !! I will suggest you to create your own backlinks by commenting, finding broken links using ahref and contact them to exchange that broken link with your link, most of the websites change their link in 2-3 hours.. You can also bribe them by writing some content for your backlink.
CONTENT is still the king because google algorithm notes the bouncebacks, amount of time the user scrolled your site and other parameters. So if the content is not engaging and relevant enough google will not rank you at the top !Even if you have million backlinks.
Thats it from my side.
Hi
I agree with you 100% especially when it comes to link building and content quality.
Thanks for your comment
Best
Alex
Hey Thanks. I found your blog using Google Search. This is an extremely neatly written article and very informative. These tips are important for getting organic traffic. Thanks
Awesome post! Already bookmarked. I’m blogging about healthy food. I’ve been trying put traffic to my newly blog for months into no avail. The only thing that get me from stale mate point is that I’ve performed some serious keyword expansion. I’ve got help from support guys from the SEO tool I’ve been using. Now I know how to rank well for as many relevant keywords as possible and it did miracles to by blog. The tool calls SERPstat and the guy were awesome. Thanks for this post. And huge thanks for the guys who helped me. I’m starting to believe that if you put efforts into something, the universe will oblige)
Right on article – the simple stuff is often so powerful. I have always thought that “content is king” meaning having good fresh content on your site will draw links and traffic to your site. Also testing for functional issues such as speed is an important part of the quality algorithmn from Google. thanks.
This post is so good for beginner. They can earn a bunch of knowledge from this post. I’m referring this toward my friends. Thanks a lot.
Hmm it looks like your site ate my first comment (it was extremely long) so
I guess I’ll just sum it up what I wrote and say, I’m thoroughly
enjoying your blog. I as well am an aspiring blog blogger but I’m still new to the whole
thing. Do you have any helpful hints for rookie blog writers?
I’d certainly appreciate it.
Hi Lions
My advice is simple: Be Patient, follow solid SEO practices, keep publishing interesting and high quality content to your blog and everything else will follow.
It takes time to get results but don’t give up.
Thanks
Alex
I’m new blogger who started blogging a month ago, I’m using blogspot platform. I have a question, Is there a difference for seo tips when using a free based platform (blogspot, wordpress.com,etc) and self-hosted website?
Anyway, this is a great article, thank you for sharing
Hi Gemma
SEO is the same for all platforms but it’s always a best practice to have your own domain and self hosted website instead of using a subdomain on a free platform.
Thanks
Alex
These are the basics of the seo always useful to be able to rank better on google
Your 15 SEO Beginners Tips is really helpful for new bee blogger. This and all of your blog is good for learning SEO. Thank dude for sharing
Hi Guarav
Thanks you for comment. All the best with your SEO Efforts.
Alex
Thank you so much for the great tips on improving my SEO. I have a travel content business but now turning my attention to improving websites using various tips like what you have outlined in this post. Thanks again!
Hi Derek
You can also read this: https://www.reliablesoft.net/the-ultimate-guide-on-how-to-seo-your-travel-website/ which is specifically for travel websites.
Thanks
Alex
Really helpful stuff me beginers like me. Following your blog from long time. Great work u doing, keep going..
I never realised google authorship is that important as you say. I must follow this from now. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Hi Santosh
Actually is no longer important. I will update the article to reflect that.
Thanks
Alex
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Thanks Alex for sharing a great message for beginners that is helpful for a new blogger and that one who want to start a planning for new blog and website.
Hello Alex,
It’s also important to point out that links ON Social Media platforms are mostly nofollow so rarely impact your website’s actual SEO. So don’t go flinging around your website URL on social platforms thinking it’ll improve your SEO because that just isn’t the case.
Thanks
Hi Maverick,
That’s true. Links from social media are mostly nofollow.
Thanks for your input
Alex
Just a quick message to say thank you for the info.
Keep up the good work.
This really helps narrow things down. I’ve ready many blogs about SEO and they give a long list in what to look for in a website. You have simplified the factors on what Google looks and this can make it really clear to anyone new to SEO.
Thanks Alex for this is very informative tips. I hope these tips help to improve my website ranking. so thank you for sharing this post.
Thanks Alex.
You’ll be surprised how many websites don’t optimize their title tags, such a gimme.
Also, people need to understand updating the title tag without creating relevant content does nothing.
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So I just read your article, and I agree with it for the most part. On-page SEO is important. BUT, not as important as off-page SEO. As long as your domain and title have your keywords in them. Along with having variations of the keywords throughout the content scattered maybe 3-4 times (depending on how much content you have), your on-page is pretty much alright. The main factor in ranking sites is backlink relevancy. Be sure to tell the readers that if it’s a local site, get your citations, and maybe go through blogs and leave some nice comments (such as I’m trying to do now 🙂 ) But relevant backlinks are king for 2017!
Thanks for the read
Hi, ALEX CHRIS
You have presented all things in a very easy way. Optimization of titles, URL, and descriptions is very important but many SEO professionals do not follow keyword proximity and keyword prominence in the title tag, meta tag, URL and main content. Whats your opinion about Keyword Proximity and Keyword Prominence?
Thanks for your great efforts!
Thank you Alex, it is much helpful to me to improve my website traffic
Great tips. Obviously, In the changing landscape of marketing and promotion, SEO has become a core element of any serious business whether big, small or medium. So this information is very useful. Thank you for sharing it.
I am really impress with your blog so 3 words for your website, unique information, good selection of topic and quality.
Hey!
Nice Post on SEO. These are the core points for good SEO. Your post clean for me to update my website. I follow this style for later on.
Thanks a lot for the insights, I am learning a lot of SEO stuff. I am going to implement this on my site.
Thank you for the amazing seo tips for better ranking. All 5 points are very useful and important for seo ranking factors.
Thanks for this helpful points about SEO. Really amazing content.
I really appreciate your post I found Everything here related to SEO. luckily i found you website on search engine.
It’s my pleasure to read a such rocking article. The information you shared is real working as I m going to implement them on my business. I appreciate you bringing us such important article on SEO
Hello sir, Almost all step done !
My site is now optimized for google. Let see what happens. Thanks for extremely good Article. It was really Helpful for me
Hi,
I have been reading your content since last couple of weeks and I found you have some excellent articles.
Thanks for sharing such nice contents.
Specially this content will help me a lot.
Thanks for the info, I am always learning this will help me review my seo tactics.
SEO is a game of time & patience. One have to learn first what to do and what not do and apply the basics carefully. You have to wait for some time to get results. Many thanks for this awesome article for beginners.
Great tips here, SEO is so important for all websites, i make sure i have CDN’s so my website load speed is very fast!
Thanks for this, a really awesome article. You covered the simplest of things, but people often forget that basics are the most important. I really agree with the importance of updating contents frequently, not only from SEO persepective, but contents are one of, if not the best way to gain more traffic (and hopefully conversion). Again, awesome! Thanks.
Yes, getting backlinks from others high qualities website (websites having high DA [Domain Authority]) is the more effective way to increase the ranking of the website i.e. Off-Page SEO techniques. Furthermore, adding keywords into 1-100 words which is also a good way for improving the SEO.
Hi Priya
Thanks for your comment.
Alex
Awesome SEO tips. The post is really helpful and educative. It is just what I needed to know when it comes to boosting my Site on Google. Thanks for the insights.
In 2018, loading time is the most important part of the website ranking in search engine. Website that has less loading time can easily be ranked higher in mobile searches.
Great article. Informative and helpful, very easy and actionable immediately.. Thanks for all the wonderful tips with depth details.
Wow!!! I’m blown. This is a beautiful piece. Where have you been? Great one Alex. I read every word from beginning to comments. Please Alex, I need a favour. I’ll be launching my blog in 7days. I’ll contact you.
Thanks in anticipation.
Very important post for SEO beginner so many unique ideas for seo
These are very basic, but very important points that should be considered while starting with SEO on our website. Perfect use of very niche relevant high-quality content based on targeted keywords helps us to rank in search engine. Very nice post for the people who are looking for basic ideas/areas they should look into for SEO optimization of the website.
Whenever you are designing a website, If it is a e-commerce website or any website that is product specific or business oriented then you will have to make the as much as possible advertise so you can sell your products easily.
It’s great that you elaborated on ways you can increase your SEO; it can be pretty overwhelming. Personally, I believe that one of the best things you can do is to make your site mobile friendly. From what I understand most traffic comes through mobile nowadays, so it would be smart to cater to that.
Greetings, Alex!
The points that you have mentioned are extremely important from an SEO perspective. Along with the perfectly optimized metadata, a quick loading & mobile friendly website and fresh content, An SSL certificate is also recommended for better rankings.
Thank you for this post.
It is a useful reminder to me on the things that are needed to make my client’s sites successful.
Hi Alex,
Very well written article, I must say it covers everything that must be kept in mind right from writing a good content to attracting a decent audience and properly structuring a website for the same. Thank you for emphasizing so much on these fundamental points like breadcrumb, page loading speed, and seo in all . Hope to keep the same with the website.
Thanks for mentioning “mobile-friendly website”. With Google’s mobile-first index, it is a must to have a mobile-friendly website.
Great tips here! Good content is one of the most important SEO factors on your page – make sure you are not duplicating someone else’s work. Quality is much better than quantity. If you want to generate traffic through search, it’s best to do keyword research before you start writing. SEO makes demands. Content marketing fulfils those demands.
Hey Alex, Brilliantly Covered Important and Crucial SEO tips. I wanted to add my view on it, “I feel that SSL and HTTPS are also very Important SEO Factor”. I mean if you see every single website on Google’s First Page is SSL and Https Enabled.
Hi Alex,
Your blog just awesome. It is a very helpful & informative post for me. Because I am Digital marketer as an SEO expert. Please keep it up.
Thanks
Nupur Ghosh
Hey,
Thanks for sharing the tips on Better ranking for the website. These tips seems to be good but also I can suggest few tips on better Ranking Fixing broken inks, Social Media Sharing, Improving readability of content on your website.
Thanks again for your valuable tips and hope you share more
Well, I realize i might be a bit late to the show here, but i feel like nowadays schema wouldn’t be in the bonus tip section i feel like it’s one of the almost most important part of a site.
Great article tho.
I liked that you explained that it is important to make sure that you are descriptive in your website’s titles and URL. That wouldn’t have been something I would have thought about doing. It seems like it would be smart to get a professional to help you do SEO work.
This article is a treat for all of us who wants to improve traffic for our blogs and websites. Easy to understand and pretty much helpful in every way.
If I could add anything it would be to choose your keywords wisely. This is so important.
Many people make the mistake of setting up their campaign with a monster keyword. I’m not saying it’s not possible to rank for a big keyword, but it’s extremely difficult nowadays. It’s much better to find the golden nugget keywords, that have high volume, low competition. (They do exist)
Hi Farhan
I agree, choosing your keywords wisely is important.
Thanks
Alex
Great Article, so much information article and these tips are very useful for SEO Optimizer. love to read it, thanks for sharing!!!
Hi James
Thanks a lot for your comment. Glad I could with easy tips.
Thanks
Alex
Very informative post!! Like high quality content, page speed, mobile optimization; HTTPS also plays a vital role in ranking system.
Just read your article, found it really helpful and easy to understand.
Applied it on my website….
Just wow! First of all i’m impressed with your clean blog design.
This article is a masterpiece for beginners like us to improve SERPs. I have bookmarked this article already.
Keep writing!
Thanks,
Mudassir
Hey, this is an Amazing article. You keep all the important information straight and clear. And it helped me understanding some SEO tips too.
Great tips here! Good content is one of the most important SEO factors on your page – make sure you are not duplicating someone else’s work. Quality is much better than quantity. If you want to generate traffic through search, it’s best to do keyword research before you start writing. SEO makes demands. Content marketing & PPC fulfills those demands.
Hi Nishchay
Very well said! Quality is far more important than quantity.
All the best
Alex
These five basic tips are essential for an SEO friendly website. I would advice everyone to take note of the number one point, it speaks volume for a successful CTR. I am hopeful more tips on backlinks and keywords will also be of great help to newbies.
Hi Anthony
Thanks for your comment. Good advice. Yes, optimizing your page title is perhaps the most important SEO tip.
All the best
Alex
Hi Alex,
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Hi Shweta
Thanks a lot. All the best with your SEO efforts!
Alex
Hi Alex, thanks for this great info. I have a question to ask. Today, google doesn’t give importance to backlinks. So, is it possible for a wordpress blog post to rank higher on the first page with optimized content? Please, guide.
Hi Alan
Backlinks are still important for Google and that isn’t very likely to change any time soon. What has changed is that you cannot rank high on Google if your content is not good. So, backlinks without goog content is not a good combination. For best results, you need both.
Hope this helps
Alex
Thank you for the amazing seo tips for better ranking. All 5 points are very useful and important for seo ranking factors
Wonderful SEO techniques for higher ranking on google. Thanks for sharing this information I loved your content
Wow Amazing seo tips for better ranking of our website. Your article is easy to understand with must needed seo tips. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for this amazing post! I have noticed on-page has a huge effect on the ranking of the website. If the title description is optimized your site will start indexing in google.
Is it risky to use keywords in your internal links? You mention to go back and link your new pages from your older pages, how does this helps your rankings?
Hi
You can safely use keywords in your internal links. There is no Google penalty for that. Linking your new pages from old pages helps in making the new pages discoverable and relevant with the rest of the site and it also helps is passing ‘PageRank’ from old pages to the new pages.
Hope this helps
Alex
Great insights… very useful for every SEO practitioners. The most important points you pointed out for ranking a website faster and for better user experience as well. Thanks for sharing these great insights.
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Hi Alex,
This is really informative and it will be very much useful for SEO beginners and Startup companies. I will recommend this article with my friends and colleagues.
Awaiting for your enriched contents 🙂
Thank you Alex
Your article is very informative and i guess it will help me boost my website rank on search engine
Keep writing.
I saw you mentioned about Image optimization. It helps in improving page load speed, boosts websites’ SEO ranking, and improves user experience. I’ve personally tried this out and got amazing results.
I believe that learning SEO gives the affiliate and those who work with digital marketing, a tool that will put you in front of many other people who have not yet studied it. 😉
Hey Alex,
It’s a comprehensive and well-explained article. I loved the way you supported each tip with an example.
Thanks for these awesome tips.
Hi Alex, I am Shakil
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Hi Shakil
Thanks a lot!
Alex
Thank you for such effective seo tips
Hi Nino
Thank you as well, all the best with your SEO efforts.
Alex
As a new blogger, I was looking for a way to do proper SEO for my blog. I got a pretty good idea after reading this post. I am trying to complete my blog as suggested by this post and I am getting some results. Thanks for sharing such a helpful post. Hope to share more useful posts on your site. Thanks again.
Thanks For your Guidance . I have started a new E-commerce website so ill be Using your steps . 🙂
Hi Tushar
Thanks!
Alex