If you are trying to get a higher ranking on search engine, SEO, or search engine optimization, is your crucial part of your success. In this article, you will learn about what is the objective of SEO, some guidelines of writing content and breaking the myths on SEO. After reading this article, you will be much more clearer on how to implement a successful SEO for your website.
First of all, the main objective of doing SEO is that, you want to have your website to be shown, probably No.1, when people are searching on particular keyword. There are many ways to accomplish that. The first method is to write and submit your article to article directory. Not only should your article be unique in terms of content, but also your article should have keywords flowing around naturally. The second method is using social bookmarking services. You just simply bookmark the page or website you want to promote, with relevant keywords as “tags” and a descriptive title and description, and you are done. However, when you are writing content, there are some guidelines that you need to follow.
You should follow this two guidelines when you are writing your article. First of all, do not mention your keyword so many times in your articles. Not only is it difficult to be read, but also it is considered to be a “spam” by article directory. As a guideline it is advised to have your keyword appeared 2 – 3% in your whole article. But the most important point is that, before writing your article, you are supposed to do proper research on the topic you want to write. In other words, your article should contain useful ideas and help people who are reading that.
When talking about SEO, there are often a lot of “tricks” or even “cheats” that may or may not be correct. For example, somebody says that having a XML sitemap in your site can enhance your overall site ranking. However the truth is that XML sitemap can only allow search engine to add your site to their index fast. It will not affect your site ranking.
Another myth is that you should put as many keywords as possible in “meta” keyword tag. To give a brief explanation, “meta” tag is a HTML tag that you use to describe your website. And one of the way to use it is by adding name=”keyword” attribute. People with little knowledge in SEO may suggest you to put as many keywords as possible in order to enhance the opportunity to be found by other people. However, this meta description has already been neglected by Google, the biggest search engine in the world. While Yahoo and Bing, Microsoft search engine, will still pay some attention to it, if you are putting a lot of effort in optimizing this tag, you will waste a lot of time but get little or even no result.
I hope that by now you have already had some ideas on how to do successful SEO. In short, you can get high ranking for particular keyword by submitting article and bookmarking your website using social bookmarking services. If you are going to submit articles, please include your keywords naturally but not putting your keywords everywhere in the article. At last but not least, you have found some of the SEO myths that are discussed on the web. So from now on you are able to do effective SEO for your website.