How to Maximize SEO Website Design

SEO (search engine optimization) is the act of creating text, images or even external website features that are the most popular in a topic and make a page easier to find in search engine results. Here is how to maximize SEO website design.

1. First: Keywords

   Think about what another person might look for topic wise in relation to the topic of your site. Try picking words that are of utmost importance in your articles and testing them. You can also paste your article into a text analyzer and see what common keywords are selected. Another way to boost an article is by including a keyword in its title, along with its URL and its HTML title tag, which can give it a boost in search ratings.

2. Second: Meta data and image attributes

   Meta descriptions and keyword tags are invaluable tools for helping your website. The description should stay a brief idea of what the article is about, and it should stay less than 200 characters. As for the keyword tags and phrases, these have to remain relevant to the article. For images, add titles and alt attributes because a search engine can only read text and would never index your images otherwise. This can also help with your image-based searches.

3. Third: Linking

   Try linking to other sites. It generally looks better for your site to have many external links as it usually means that the site with all of those links is an authoritative site. This tends to give it a higher ranking in search engine results.

4. Fourth: Social bookmarking

   By allowing visitors to mention and post links to your site on sites like Facebook and Digg, you give visitors a change to bring others to your site from their social network. Recommendations are also known to raise a website’s rank in search results.