Top 10 Tips for Improved SEO

1. Link all pages

Make sure that all your web pages can be indexed by search engines and that they all have at least one link from somewhere on your site.

2. Unique Content

Make sure that you have unique content on every single page

3. Meta Tags

Make sure that your meta-tags are arranged correctly. Your page title tags and description tags should describe the content of your web pages. The page title tags should be less than 68 characters and the description tags more detailed but less than 148 characters.

4. Correct use of Header Tags

Make sure you label the different headers on your web pages using H Tags

5. SEO friendly URL's

Where possible make your web page URL's SEO friendly. Ideally they should be readable. Use hyphens, underscores or 'camelback' to separate words in the URLS if it makes them more legible.

6. Descriptive URL's

Make sure you use descriptive URL;s for your images not just meaningless numbers or letters.

7. Use ALT Tags on images

Make sure that you label all of your images with descriptive alt attributes.

8. Use anchor tags on all links

Make sure you make good use of the descriptive anchor text links within your content.

9. NoFollow Tag

Use the rel-'nofollow' tag in links to websites that you do not trust, or you don not want to help in the search engines.

10. Validated Code

Make sure that your code is validated, in some instance bad code can lead to search engines not being able to properly read a page.

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