Search Engine Optimization: How To Improve SEO On Your Website!

Interested in learning how to improve the SEO on your website? Jim Newsome posted an article today on Search Engine Land that gives you the Top 10 SEO tips to implement onto your website. He identifies the key concepts in SEO (gives credit to Vanessa Fox for the inspiration) being relevance, discoverability, and crawlability.

Below are the key points that Jim discusses in the article. To continue reading the article to learn more about each key point, click here.

  1. Keyword research is the first step in SEO.
  2. Get trustworthy advice from SEO sources on the web.
  3. Look after your code.
  4. Make navigation easy.
  5. Get links from trusted, relevant sources.
  6. Build a sitemap page and an XML sitemap.
  7. Don’t forget the technical stuff.
  8. Track your progress with a web analytics program.
  9. Tell search engines where you are.
  10. Remember that content is king.

As Jim points out there are more than just these Top 10 tips to do to improve the SEO on your website, but these are tried and true methods to help get your website moving in the right direction on the major search engines. If you’re interested in discovering what other methods you can do to your website, feel free to contact Regency Interactive today! Our experience with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) began in 1999 with an emphasis on developing focused and relevant websites. Known techniques along with our extensive knowledge allow Regency Interactive to consistently deliver page one placement across the search engines. Over eight years of SEO experience and research have molded our proven methodology to provide full service solutions for today’s websites from content enhancement to site code analysis.

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May 19, 2008 | Filed Under internet marketing

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SEO: What Questions Should You Ask An SEO Firm Before You Hire Them?

What questions should you ask an search engine optimization (SEO) firm you’re thinking about hiring to determine their legitimacy? A High Rankings Forum thread gives you some of the must-know questions to ask. We’ve outlined some of them below:

  1. How long they have been doing SEO?
  2. Can you give me three clients that you have had first-page results for?
  3. What are some campaigns you have succeeded with?
  4. Can you illustrate any significant traffic boosts or conversion boosts?
  5. What is your general SEO process?
  6. What is your criteria for choosing keyword phrases?
  7. How is success measured?
  8. What should you expect from us as a client?

The lists features more questions that should be asked. It’s a good read so head on over there to see what questions you should be asking your search engine optimization firm before you hire them.

The forum discussion continues at the High Rankings Forum.

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April 30, 2008 | Filed Under internet marketing

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