Is your SEO top notch? Not sure? Read on to make sure!

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May 12th, 2010
by foreignwebmarketingcorrespondent

How is your search visibility these days?  Is it time to admit that you need help as a first step to search marketing recovery? :)

SEO (search engine optimization) is an essential part of your online presence and it’s therefore very important to understand what it is, how to use it to make it work for you and that it’s up to date with the online times!

For spoonful of search marketing sugar, we recommend James Gurd’s informative article, ‘Six things you can do in-house to improve your SEO’  that puts together key tips on what you can do yourself, using your own time and free tools to achieve your SEO dreams (or at least make sure they’re updated and working for you)!

Here are the six tips you can look into to increase your website optimization:

1) Set up Webmaster Tools

These allow you to: run diagnostics to identify broken links on your site, audit crawl errors, ranking of keywords on your site, etc.

2) Devise a Content Strategy

How to make sure your website offers ‘rich’ content for different users!

3) Keyword Research

Basic research – understanding current search trends. Check out the full article for details on how to use a keyword planning tool.

4) Optimize Meta and Page Contents

Master HTML tags to ensure search engines know what your website page(s) is about.

5) Generate Sitemaps

James’ article on top notch SEO lists a free XML sitemap generator, sitemap extensions and examples.

6) Link Building Program

Time to get one! Read on to figure out who to contact, where to find these contacts and which sites you should be linking in with!
Quality > Quantity is key here!

James Gurd is a marketing consultant specializing in social media blogging. For more info, access to free online tools and detailed steps for these 6 tips, read the full article on eConsultancy.

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  2. crusher
    (May 12th, 2010 at 10:15 pm)

    good article

  3. James Gurd
    (May 13th, 2010 at 12:21 pm)

    Hi there,
    Thanks for talking about my blog on SEO – if you have any questions, feel free to drop by the blog or Twitter (@jamesgurd)
    cheers
    james

  4. Lorrie Thomas

    Lorrie Thomas
    (May 13th, 2010 at 12:48 pm)

    you da man James! Great to know you! I teach SEM and SEO classes and I am behind your tips 100%! I’m off to follow you on Twitter (I’m @webtherapist)
    rock on,
    Lorrie

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