Other Important SEO Tips - Search Engine Optimization

Other Free SEO Tips

There are so many ways to optimize your website or specific pages for higher Search engine rankings that I just couldn’t possibly list them all on front page so this is part 2 of top Free SEO Tips.

SEO Tip #9, Optimizing with Alt Text

Alt text is the line of text you see pop up when you place your cursor over an image. It also displays a text representation of the image when the user has images turned off in their browser.

Since it is indexed by the search engines, the alt text attribute can help your SEO but should not to be stuffed with keywords or phrases. The alt text should reflect the content of the image that is again relevant to the page content. (Learn more and see examples in this article about Using Alt Text.)

SEO Tip #10, Use SEO-friendly URLs

If your website is run by CMS, you should always enable the SEO friendly Url structure. For example WordPress by default uses numeric permalinks (?p=123) which displays url like www.yourdomain.com/?p=123. You should change your permalinks to this custom option: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/(This will return this url : www.yourdomain.com/2007/12/24/post-title) or just /%postname%/(This will return this url : www.yourdomain.com/post-title) and enable the customizable permalinks. This is a search-engine friendly URL that’s commonly used.

Either way you should try to use keywords in url’s and file names and always use hyphens instead underscores. (for example: www.yourdomain.com/seo-tips.html ) (Related article: Dashes or Underscores in URL? )

SEO Tip #11, Social Bookmarking and Marketing

Join the appropriate online social communities like StumbleUpon or MyblogLog and become an active, contributing member of the sites. Also adding a AddThis button on your website will give your visitors to bookmark and add your pages to many social networks.
( Read more in this article: Free Traffic from Social Bookmarking )

SEO Tip #12, Article Marketing

Article Marketing is still one of the greatest techniques that can be used to achieve FREE search engine rankings, PR and traffic (and make affiliate sales).
( Read more in this article: New Boom Marketing )

This Free SEO tips list could go on and on but I don’t have more time today, I will be adding more tips in the coming weeks and months. Just remember whatever you do in optimizing your site don’t overdo it, write great unique content and build your website and pages for humans in mind, make it readable. You definitely need keywords in your text and meta tags but don’t stuff it.

With this list of Free Seo tips you should be able to develop a good plan for your SEO campaign.

If you know any more Tips that I did not mention here, your additions are welcome in the comments.