Thinking of Ranking on SERP’s.
Scratching your head how to get it?
Don’t worry we have tried to compile few basic 99+ SEO tips best practices for Search engine optimisation to get your website ranking in SERP’s
- Ensure content is clear and upfront
- Check for Grammar and Spelling of Content
- Add Helpful Supplementary Content
- Bullets and Numbered Lists should be used to break content for readers
- Content should provide Value and Unique Insights
- Avoid too many ads above the fold
- Create a content hierarchy
- Ensure navigation is clear
- Use Breadcrumb Navigation
- No follow any paid/affiliate links
- Use SEO friendly URLs
- Ensure you have clearly visible contact information
- Include privacy policy and about page
- Minimise copied or thin text content
- If you are targeting local SEO include your address in layout
- Use www. or non www recommended to use www.
- Choose your keywords wisely
- Select one main keyword per page
- Consider user intent
- Check title competition
- Consider how ‘rankable’ the keyword is and how visible organic results are
- Use your competitor’s strategy
- Track your rankings
- Monitor your click-through rate
- Front load your keyword
- Avoid truncation
- Make content clickable
- Stand out from rest in website design and layout
- Don’t bother adding your brand
- Optimise home page for brand
- Minimise stop words
- Don’t repeat yourself. In terms of content and keywords
- Sell your content by writing good meta description and title for each page
- Avoid truncation
- Use your keyword in the meta description
- Split test pages
- Ensure each page has a unique H1 tag
- Use your keyword in the H1 Tag
- Keyword Word Order should be used
- Add Contact Us Page
- Include secondary and LSI keywords
- Avoid using header tags in layout
- Use your keyword early
- Long content correlates with higher rankings
- Forget keyword density
- Use LSI keywords
- Add multimedia
- Add internal links
- Link out to authentic website or as required
- Check Outbound Link Quality
- Prioritize quality over frequency
- Set up rich snippets/structured data
- Include table of contents for long content
- Avoid excessively long URL
- Set canonical URLs
- Add noindex, follow to pages you wish to exclude from Google
- Block spiders from sensitive content with robots.txt
- Lower your bounce rate
- Use scroll of pages
- Use heat map to study your website performance
- Minimise pop-ups
- Be careful with interstitial ads
- Ensure website is mobile optimised
- Consider accessibility
- Consider readability
- Consider usability
- Set up friendly 404 page
- User reviews/Site reputation
- Minimise down time
- Implement
- Look for ‘quick wins’
- Check for errors
- Submit a site map/site maps
- Sign up for Google Analytics
- Regularly check stats and react to any changes in traffic
- Optimise your load speed
- Test your site’s load speed
- Implement recommendations from Google Page Speed Insights
- Use image along with content
- Add relevant alt text
- Use descriptive file / image names
- Optimise file / image size
- Build link as it’s one of the primary factors
- \Links from authoritative domains pass more
- Links from topically related sites assist rankings
- Links from within content are the most valuable
- Links from 301 is good
- Study your competitor’s links to get few for your own domain
- Low quality link building prove harm
- Diversify your link profile
- Diversify your anchor text
- Regularly audit your link profile
- Don’t ignore social media!
- Use social media to share you content
- Show social proof
- Encourage sharing of your content
- Include open graph data
- Set up Twitter card
- Set up rich pins
- Find popular content in your niche and improve/update it
- Spend at least as much time promoting content as creating it
- Email outreach continues to be most powerful method
- Shareable assets = more links
- Share content from others
- Moderate comments
- Don’t put your eggs in one basket
- Learn as much as you can
- Pay attention to updates
- Be patient as effective SEO takes hard work and time
- Avoid shady tactics
- Don’t spam.
- Check for Manual penalties in Google Console and resolve it
- Check traffic drops against Google update dates
- Remove/minimise thin content
- Remove bad links
- Disavow any links which cannot be removed
- Check for hacks/inserted links
- File reconsideration request
Note: Recovery from penalties is not straight forward and you should be very careful when removing links, de- indexing pages etc. If in doubt consider employing the services of an experienced SEO consultant. It should also be noted that Google is expected to transition to ‘real-time’, continuous Penguin/Panda updates in the near future, which may make identifying specific penalties harder. - Be patient and relax it’s take time to to get result show up in SERP’s.