Top 10 List of SEO

I think it is possible to list the most important elements in optimizing a web page (or web site for that matter) for search engines. Here are my top 10. Feel free to list yours or correct mine. They are not in order from most important to least important.

Top 10 Tips to SEO

1. Find out what keywords from your service and industry web site visitors are using in the search engines. If you manufacture blue, red and green widgets, find out if people are searching with those terms or if they are using big, medium and little widgets instead.

Search engine optimization (SEO)

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) or the higher it “ranks”, the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of searches, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.