Keywords

Part three of my SEO checklist covers the placement and general use of keywords on your web-site. Remember that Google for instance uses a computer to analyze what your pages are about. Make it blatently obvious and you will reap the rewards.

The first thing I want to cover is the ratio of keywords in your content. Some SEO exponents will tell you to use a keyword for every 25 or so other words.This is a tricky subject because the search engines change what they are looking for very regularly. Personally I have read a lot of garbage, written to impress Google rather than inform or entertain me. Save your payroll checks and examine each services by giving a try on lower package first.

That’s why my advice to you is to write for the person visiting in the most attractive way you can. Of course you should drop your keywords in but only when it makes sense within what you are writing. My own SEO Company website is a case in point.

Although I do SEO for a living, I try to write for the visitor even to my own detriment with the search engines. To me, content is king and I wont short change my customers to get a few extra points from the search engines

• Use Keywords in your page title (the one that appear at the very top of the page when you visit a website)
• Ditto with your Meta description (the one that appears under your listing in the search engine results)
• Use your main keyword in the title tag and keep the title short up to 60 characters is best.
• Place your target keyword phrases at the beginning of the title and bolded out.
• Use your target keywords towards the front of the first paragraph.
• Use ‘H’ tags to highlight the importance of keywords and phrases.

• Place your most relevant keyword phrase in a H1 tag.
• Place your secondary keyword phrases in H2 and H3 tags.
• Use Keywords in your page title (the one that appear at the very top of the page when you visit a website)
• Ditto with your Meta description (the one that appears under your listing in the search engine results)
• Images should be described using ALT Tags. Describe the image and do not use them to promote your keywords.

DoFollow is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing NoFollow. NoFollow is a hyperlink attribute (much like the "ALT" or "TITLE" tags) that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a "comment" area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page. As a result of the implementation of NoFollow: link building has taken a massive hit, as many sites including Wikis, social bookmarking sites, corporate and private blogs, commenting plugins and many other venues and applets across the internet began implementing NoFollow. This made effective link building difficult for both honest people and spammers alike. How Search Engines Use NoFollow Search engines each interpret NoFollow in their own way. Here's a list of the major search engines, and their actions when a NoFollow link is seen: • Google follows NoFollow links but simply does not pass on credit to an outbound link that is tagged with the attribute. • Yahoo follows NoFollow links and excludes the link from all ranking calculations. • MSN may or may not follow a NoFollow link, but it does exclude it from ranking calculations. • Ask.com does not adhere to NoFollow. Finding DoFollow Sites With all of the above being said - it is rather difficult to find sites that are "DoFollow"...however, they are out there! Listed below for your convenience are running lists of multiple categories of sites that are DoFollow, and great candidates for your next backlink! 50 Do Follow Blog List (PR 0-6) All these blogs are do follow and you can post a comment on it to Gain PR and get indexed very very fast http://randaclay.com/ http://bloggeruniversity.blogspot.com/ http://www.jangro.com/ http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/ http://larholm.com/ http://heiseidemocracy.com PR 5 http://www.expertcruiser.com PR 5 http://www.shandyking.com/ PR 5 http://dag.wieers.com PR6 http://www.bumpzee.com PR6 http://www.figby.com/archives/2004/11/29/more-skepticism-on-blogging-for-dollars/ PR 6 http://www.universalhub.com/node/12757 Domain PR 6 http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/good-news-and-bad-news PR 6 http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/off-on-holiday PR 6 http://heiseidemocracy.com PR 5 http://www.expertcruiser.com PR 5 http://www.shandyking.com PR 5 http://www.dotsauce.com PR 5 http://sphinn.com PR 5 http://www.memwg.com - PR 5 http://www.algojunkie.com - PR 3 http://compsci.ca/blog - PR5 http://what-is-what.com PR4 http://nspeaks.com - PR4 http://www.organicseo.in/ - PR4 http://www.centerosvita.org - PR4 http://www.asotn.com - PR3 http://www.rishabhsood.net - PR0 http://www.larsbachmann.dk - PR3 http://xiirus.net - PR3 http://nthambazale.blogspot.com - PR3 http://bytecoders.homelinux.com - PR3 http://www.reviewerofsites.com - PR3 http://infodotnet.blogspot.com - PR3 http://www.seodiva.net - PR3 http://www.ipopho.com/ - PR3 http://blogsthatmakemoney.net - PR2 http://axog.blogspot.com/ - PR2 http://jmorris.name/ - PR2 http://deaneonlinesecrets.blogspot.com/ - PR1 http://www.lifeintherough.com - PR4 http://www.thedailyfuzz.com -PR2 http://randaclay.com/blog/i-follow/ PR 5 http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/21/are-you-depressed-today-youre-not-alone/ PR 4 http://blogs.speech-writers.com PR4 www.searchenginepeople.com/blog PR4 http://freeadblogger.blogspot.com PR4 http://allrealestateproperty.blogspot.com PR4 http://mythoughtsideasandramblings.com PR2 http://davedragon.rilysi.com PR2 http://www.fatmanunleashed.com PR2 Make sure you get to Adspace Guru for cheap blog commenting services today. Read the rest of this entry »